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‘Super agers’ with great memory have more young brain cells

Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS captured speeding through the solar system by Jupiter-bound spacecraft

Glyphosate is driving a rift in MAHA. Here’s what the science says about its effects on health

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U.S. officially surpasses 1,000 cases of measles in 2026

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Is there lightning on Mars? New evidence suggests it’s there, just hard to see

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Eerie brainlike nebula captured in stunning new JWST images

How to watch the ‘planetary parade’ of 2026

NASA scraps 2027 Artemis III moon landing in favor of 2028 mission

Galápagos tortoise once believed extinct is now roaming free

How LabOS AI-powered smart goggles could reduce human error in science

Do alien exoplanets have exomoons and exorings?

How a teen’s AI model could help stop poaching in rainforests

Head-to-head trial shows Eli Lilly’s oral GLP-1 orforglipron outperforms oral semaglutide

Male Neanderthals and female humans likely interbred more often than the other way around

Department of Homeland Security detains Columbia student identified as neuroscience researcher

Katharine Burr Blodgett made a breakthrough when she discovered ‘invisible glass’

Mosquitoes may have evolved a taste for human blood thanks to Homo erectus

At-home microbiome tests reveal dramatically different results

Cells in the body remember obesity. Here’s what that means for weight loss

Rubin Observatory has started paging astronomers 800,000 times a night

The surprising scientific value of roadkill

How to win The Traitors, according to science

See the complexity at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy in new image

Trump’s State of the Union speech made no mention of Make America Healthy Again

NASA identifies astronaut Mike Fincke as triggering the unprecedented medical evacuation of the ISS

Many people don’t see mental images. The reason offers clues to consciousness

Economist Larry Summers resigns from posts at Harvard after ties to Epstein spark scrutiny

Heart disease in young women projected to rise sharply by 2050

The surprising new physics of squeaky basketball shoes

Nobel Prize–winning brain scientist steps down over Epstein ties

Astronomers spot a young sun blowing bubbles inside the Milky Way

Online influencer faces confirmation hearing for surgeon general in U.S. Senate

How polyamory works, according to relationship researchers

Chimpanzee pee reveals how our primate cousins are getting drunk on fermented fruit

Baby butterflies use rhythm to fool ants into taking care of them

Ghostly UV sparks light up forests as thunderstorms pass overhead

Olympic skier Lindsey Vonn revealed she had compartment syndrome. Here's what that means

How horses whinny has long been a mystery. Now scientists think they know the answer

Mathematicians make a breakthrough on 2,000-year-old problem of curves

Female caribou grow antlers as a built-in postbirthing snack

New JWST images reveal the rosy glow of Uranus in unprecedented detail

Who should shovel the snow? This weird math puzzle can help

Stone Age art may reveal 40,000-year-old precursor to writing

Why wet, heavy snow is the best for making snowballs and snowmen

How a poet uses AI to write and why her work is now at MoMA

Scientists identify new spinosaurid, Moderna flu shot back on track, universal inhaled vaccine shows promise

What is a blizzard?

Science journalism on the ropes worldwide as U.S. aid cuts bite

NASA reveals new problem with Artemis II rocket, further delaying launch

Why Winter Olympic medals broke and what the failure revealed