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After Spectacular Auroras, What to Know about the Sun and Its Solar Cycle

How Safe Is Melatonin, and How Does the Sleep Aid Work? Experts Explain

These Birds Learned to Tweet Like R2-D2. Listen to the Uncanny Results

Gut Health Tips for Thanksgiving and Holiday Stress

Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution

How is Botulism Getting into Baby Formula? Here's How to Keep Kids Safe

Why a Little Heartbeat Irregularity Can Be Good for You

We Need Laws to Stop AI-Generated Deepfakes

Science Crossword: A Destructive Fix

Science Bleeds When It’s Cut

Readers Respond to the July/August 2025 Issue

Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

New Pill Can Save Moms from Postpartum Depression within Days

NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S. Considers Abandoning Retrieval

Math Puzzle: Falling Through

December 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Can We Find Cleaner Ways to Extract Rare Earth Elements?

Can AI ‘Griefbots’ Help Us Heal?

Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Federal Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them

How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Driving Plastic Production and Pollution

Transplant Rejection Is a Major Hurdle for Pig Organs. Scientists Are Solving the Problem

The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch This Fireball-Filled Event

Nuclear-Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting Future Generations

How to Send a Message to Future Civilizations

How Forbes Sent E-mails to the Future—And What Happened 20 Years Later

Does Information Ever Really Disappear? Physics Has an Answer

Can a Buried Time Capsule Beat Earth’s Geology and Deep Time?

How Influential People Map Their Social World

How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mail Time Capsule

Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe Just after the Big Bang

Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramatically by Nation

Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare

New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s Commercial Space Vision for NASA

Woolly Mammoth Unlocks Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA

Stranded Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth, but Space Junk Threats Remain

Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

Global Study Reveals Best Cities for Walking and Cycling

We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

A New Kind of Vaccine Offers Hope for Surviving Pancreatic Cancer

Blue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the Bow for Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Are Turkeys at Risk of Bird Flu This Thanksgiving?

Dog Skull Analysis Rewrites Evolution of Humanity’s Best Friend

Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Reveal Ties to Prominent Scientists

‘Godfather of AI’ Breaks Major Science Research Record

What Causes Cancer? Maud Slye Thought She Had the Answer and a Way to Stop It

Chinese Expedition Reveals Unexplored Section of Mysterious Arctic Ocean Ridge

Scientists Might Soon Predict the Ocean’s Rogue Waves