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Elon Musk's New Grok 4 Takes on ‘Humanity’s Last Exam’ as the AI Race Heats Up

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Marjorie Taylor Greene Plans Hearing on Geoengineering amid Cloud Seeding Conspiracy Theories

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Waste Wars Tracks the 'Wild Afterlife' of Garbage on an International Black Market

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We’re Light-Years Away from True Artificial Intelligence, Says Murderbot Author Martha Wells

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ChatGPT Is Changing the Words We Use in Conversation

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Water on Mars Probably Doesn’t Explain These Weird Streaks

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How and Why Humans Began to Sing, a Musicology and Neuroscience Perspective

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Trump Names Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy as Interim NASA Chief

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Nanoplastics Make Up Most of the Ocean’s Plastic Pollution

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Extreme Heat Endangers AI Data Centers

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Ancient Tooth Proteins Rewrite the Rhino Family Tree—Are Dinosaurs Next?

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Can AI Replace Air Traffic Controllers to Reduce Airline Accidents?

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Attacks on Higher Education Are Attacks on All Americans

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Four New Autism Subtypes Link Genes to Children's Traits

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‘Science Fair’ of Lost Research Protests Trump Cuts

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Texas Floods Were a Known Risk, but Little Has Been Done for Protection

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Japan’s New Undersea Earthquake Detection System Will Improve Tsunami Prediction

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ChatGPT and Gemini AIs Have Uniquely Different Writing Styles

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Tracking Coral Reef Health with Bioacoustics

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Gut Microbe Deficiency in U.S. Babies Tied to Asthma, Allergies, Autoimmune Disorders

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Flood Forecasts in Texas and Beyond Could Worsen with Trump NWS Cuts

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Science Makes the U.S. a Great Nation

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Cutting-Edge Physics and Chemistry Now Unfold One Attosecond at a Time

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Why Texas ‘Flash Flood Alley’ Is So Deadly, Explained by Geology

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The Benefits of Raising Conscientious Kids

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Why Did Texas Flash Flood Waters Rise So Quickly?

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Addiction Risk Shows up in Children’s Brain Scans before Drug Use Starts

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Texas Flood Forecasts Were Accurate but Not Sufficient to Save Lives

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Pulsing Magma in Earth’s Mantle Drives Tectonic Plates Tearing Africa Apart

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Astronaut Matthew Dominick Speaks to Scientific American, Live from the International Space Station

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Math’s Block-Stacking Problem Has a Preposterous Solution

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Climate Change’s Fingerprints Came Early, a Thought Experiment Reveals

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Workers Have Died in Extreme Heat as OSHA Has Debated Protections

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Human Gut Bacteria Can Gather Up PFAS ‘Forever Chemicals’

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Can Life Survive the Death of the Sun?

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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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