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‘Bat feast’ animal videos at African cave offer clues to how deadly viruses spread

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Can electric air taxis carry passengers? Vertical Aerospace’s VX4 just cleared a key test

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Mollusk shells could pave the way to greener materials

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One scientist’s 10-year quest to calculate the strength of gravity

RFK, Jr., praises ibogaine for depression treatment. Is the psychedelic a magic bullet?

RFK, Jr., puts psychedelics on fast track to FDA review and approval

Alien comet reveals our solar system is the oddball

How darkness might save migratory birds

New JWST images reveal cosmic question marks and buckyballs in a planetary nebula

Amateur armed with ChatGPT 'vibe-maths' a 60-year-old problem

How geneticists uncovered a common root of two neurological diseases

988 crisis hotline linked to drop in young adult suicide rates

What happens if you’re hit by a primordial black hole?

Trump wants Iran's 'nuclear dust.' Here's how the U.S. could remove the uranium

From pet stores to pandemics—how wildlife trade helps diseases jump to humans

Africa could split apart sooner than scientists thought

‘Kraken’ fossils show enormous, intelligent octopuses were top predators in Cretaceous seas

Wildfire ‘red flag’ warnings in effect for large chunk of the U.S. Here’s what to know

How do earthquakes end? A seismic 'stop sign' could help predict earthquake risk

Trump administration officially reclassifies state-licensed medical marijuana as Schedule III

U.S. scientists solve the mystery of a golden orb discovered in the deep sea. Here’s what it really is

NASA’s Artemis II was a major success—so why couldn’t the crew flush the toilet?

Passage from Homer’s Iliad discovered in the abdomen of a Roman-era Egyptian mummy

A volcanic mystery reveals that rising magma has a stealth mode

Genetic origins of language may predate modern humans splitting from Neanderthals, a new study suggests

New York City, New Orleans at greatest risk of extreme damage from floods, new analysis reveals

RFK, Jr., set to overhaul key committee that issues disease screening recommendations

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope will launch in September

The solar system’s first solids had a fast start

Smoking ban for people born after 2008 is on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K.

Plants can ‘hear’ rain coming, spurring them into action

A humanoid robot beat the human half-marathon record at a Beijing race. But what did it actually prove?

NASA’s ‘Earthrise’ image changed how we see our planet. Can the Artemis moon missions do the same?

Whatever happened to the ozone hole, acid rain and DDT?

This Earth Day, three experts share tips on how to feel hopeful about the environment

Gibraltar macaques are self-medicating with dirt to help them digest human junk food

Mathematicians found out why waiting for the elevator takes forever

The quantum arrow of time can be reversed, physicists show

Former NASA astronauts launch new group to promote U.S. constitutional values

NASA just dropped a stunning new Hubble image of a ‘Cosmic Sea Lemon’ 5,000 light-years away

FBI investigating possible links between deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists

Why firstborns may be more likely than secondborns to be autistic or to have allergies

Hegseth says U.S. military no longer requires flu vaccination, drawing criticism from health experts

Trump’s order on psychedelics could have far-reaching science consequences

NASA’s 2028 moon landing may be delayed because of lack of space suits, watchdog report warns

Astronauts’ brains don’t fully adapt to life in microgravity, new study finds

Risk of ‘megaquake’ in Japan higher after powerful earthquake strikes

NASA’s Voyager 1 spacecraft down to just two working science instruments

The strange way cocaine water pollution is changing salmon

See Bruce the parrot wield his broken beak like a deadly weapon