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Could AI Really Kill Off Humans?

Trump EPA Reorganization Signals End to Climate Work

These Fish and Flies Are Engineered to Break Down Mercury

Do ‘Alternative’ Measles Treatments Touted by RFK Jr. Work?

Trump Targets Air-Conditioning and Heating Funds for Low-Income Households

Scientists Use Ancient Chinese Poetry to Study Endangered Yangtze Porpoise

What Would Einstein Tell Trump?

‘Agreeing to Disagree’ Is Hurting Your Relationships—Here’s What to Do Instead

Cuttlefish May Communicate with Discolike Arm Gestures

New Data Released from NASA’s Juno Mission, and New Satellites Launched for Internet and Trees

Self-Driving Cars Have New Rules in the U.S. Here’s Why That Matters

Under Trump, National Science Foundation Cuts Off All Funding to Scientists

Solar Geoengineering Is Possible with Existing Aircraft, Study Finds

Could the Sun Unleash Dangerous Superflares?

The Threatened Fungi on the IUCN Red List Are Important to our Ecology

The Scary Implications of U.S. Government Attacks on Medical Journals

RFK, Jr., Funds Universal Vaccines for Flu and COVID—Here’s What That Means

If a Chatbot Tells You It Is Conscious, Should You Believe It?

Trump Quietly Halts Money to States for Preventing Disaster Damage

Why ‘Evolving’ Dark Energy Worries Some Physicists

Could a Monster Earthquake Actually Sink Parts of the Pacific Northwest?

Trump’s Energy Secretary Baselessly Blames Spain’s Power Outage on Renewables

Mysterious Glowing Structure Discovered Near Solar System

Where Does Consciousness Come From? Two Neuroscience Theories Go Head-to-Head

Measles Vaccine Denial Is a Massive Brainwashing Campaign

Why Ozempic and Wegovy Might Change Your Favorite Food

Griefbots Create Digital Immortality and Raise Ethical Concerns around AI Chatbots

Trump Dismisses Scientists Writing the National Climate Assessment

If HPV Infection Increases Heart Disease Risk, Can Vaccination Lower It?

What Amazon’s Project Kuiper versus SpaceX’s Starlink Satellite Mega Constellation Wars Mean for Earth

How Trump’s EPA Plans to Undo Climate Rules

Bird-Watching Tips as Migration Season Peaks

This Bitcoin Encryption Comes from Renaissance Art and Math

Scientific American’s 1925 Coverage of Eclipses, Mediums and Inventions

CO₂ Surged Last Year, but the Trump Administration Has Downplayed the Alarming Data

Science Isn’t about Domination. It’s about Democracy

Ancient DNA Reveals Phoenicians’ Surprising Ancestry

Is There Any Sound in Space?

Wild NYC Author Ryan Mandelbaum Takes a Wildlife-Filled Walk in Prospect Park

Carnivorous ‘Bone Collector’ Caterpillars Wear Corpses as Camouflage

Worst Coral Mass Bleaching on Record Caused By Warming Oceans

Marie Curie’s Mentorship Led to Networks of Support for Female Scientists

Slashing NASA’s Programs Will Squander America’s Place in Space

NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope Marks 35 Years from Launch

The Major N.J. Wildfire Shows Unexpected Urban Areas Are at Risk

Roman Gladiator Remains Show First Proof of Human-Animal Combat

Musk Funded the Carbon-Removal XPrize but Is Now Slashing Climate Research

Firing Science Advisors Will Leave the U.S. Senseless

Slither, by Stephen S. Hall, Explores Our Fear and Fascination around Snakes

What We Know about Artificial Food Dyes and Health as RFK, Jr., Declares a U.S. Ban