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Proof That Adult Brains Make New Neurons Settles Scientific Controversy

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First Human Genome from Ancient Egypt Sequenced from 4,800-Year-Old Teeth

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How Massive Medicaid Cuts Will Harm People’s Health

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New Interstellar Object Comet 3I/ATLAS—What We Know So Far as It Zips through the Solar System

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Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S. Climate Emissions

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Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality

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How Trump’s Federal Funding Cuts Are Hurting Early-Career Researchers and American Health

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AI Could Help Save Patients from Extreme Heat

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Astronomers Found the Most Self-Destructive Planet in the Sky

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China’s Tianwen-3 Mission Could Beat the U.S. in the Race to Grab Mars Rocks

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For Dolphins, Echolocation May Be More Like ‘Touching’ Than ‘Seeing’

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Could AI Make Drone Shows Less Technically Challenging?

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4 Nonfiction Books Scientific American Recommended In June

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U.S. National Climate Assessments Website Goes Dark

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Could China’s New Ozempic-like Drugs Beat Out Current Weight-Loss Medications?

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Russia’s Space Program Is Another Casualty of the War in Ukraine

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See Earth’s Forests as Never Before in Biomass Satellite’s First Images

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Rubin Observatory Data Flood Will Let the Universe Alert Astronomers 10 Million Times a Night

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Summer Learning Loss Happens, but Kids Quickly Recover

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World’s Oldest Rocks Confirmed in Canada

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Cells Can ‘Hear’ Sounds—And Respond Genetically

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Why Did the Company behind the Dakota Access Pipeline Sue Greenpeace?

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Weather Forecasters Lose Crucial Hurricane Detection Microwave Satellite Data

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Solar-Powered Slug Steals Chloroplasts and Stores Them for Emergency Food

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Meditation’s Benefits Stretch Beyond the Person Who Meditates

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New Proof Dramatically Compresses Space Needed for Computation

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Could the Solar System Lose a Planet to a Passing Star?

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Creating Bird Flu Vaccines for Humans at a Biosecure Laboratory

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Does Using ChatGPT Really Change Your Brain Activity?

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These Actions Could Make Vaccines Safer. But RFK, Jr., Isn’t Pursuing Them

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A Gigantic Megacomet Is Erupting as It Zooms through the Solar System

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Heat Domes Are Hotter and Lingering Longer—Because of the Arctic

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Math Enthusiasts Unite to Have Rover Calculate Pi on the Moon

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What Is Thimerosal? Why Most Vaccines Don’t Contain Mercury Anymore

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Archaeologists Recreate Prehistoric Tools to Build a Canoe for 140-Mile Ocean Voyage

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Use Summer Break to Build Closer Bonds with Your Children

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Trump Administration Ousts National Science Foundation from Headquarters Building

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Sexual Synesthesia Paints the World in Color at the Moment of Orgasm

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When Do Babies Become Conscious?

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A Sodom and Gomorrah Story Shows Scientific Facts Aren’t Settled by Public Opinion

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See Vaccine Recommendations Backed by Science in These Handy Charts

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How Bird Flu Went from Devastating Poultry Farms to Infecting Dairy Herds

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How Perfectionism Hurts Parents and Their Kids

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How to Keep Your Home Cool in Extreme Heat

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Did the U.S. Really Destroy Iran’s Nuclear Program?

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Dark Matter ‘Droplets’ Could Solve Multiple Cosmic Mysteries

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To Make Better Choices, Understand How Your Brain Processes Values

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The Hidden Game Theory of Sherlock Holmes

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NASA’s Psyche Spacecraft, Exploring Solar System Origins, Is Back on Track after Thrusters Lost Power

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AI and Data Centers Could Cut More Climate-Change-Causing Emissions Than They Create

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