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Murderbot’s Cyborg Brain Explained by Neuroscience

Huge Reservoirs of Clean Hydrogen Could Power Earth for 170,000 Years

How Do Doctors Treat ‘Aggressive’ Prostate Cancer like Joe Biden’s?

What to Do If Your Child Is the Bully

How Dinosaurs Shaped Fruit Evolution

Where Did Kosmos-482 Land? No One Is Sure

Tornadoes Expected to Strike Multiple States This Weekend in One of the Worst Seasons This Decade

First Personalized CRISPR Treatment Gives Baby New Lease on Life

Loneliness Is Inflaming Our Bodies—And Our Politics

RFK, Jr., Is Completely Wrong about Autism, Say Scientists and Parents

The End of the Universe May Arrive Surprisingly Soon

How Measles, Polio and Other Eliminated Diseases Could Roar Back If U.S. Vaccination Rates Fall

What Makes Stars Twinkle?

Real Ice Experiments with Polar Geoengineering to Refreeze Melting Arctic Sea Ice

‘Supersonic’ Planes Could Make a Comeback in the U.S. after Decades-Long Ban

Newly Discovered Fossil Tracks May Rewrite Early History of Reptiles

This Strange Mutation Explains the Mystifying Color of Orange Cats

New Google AI Chatbot Tackles Complex Math and Science

Trump’s Budget Cuts Would Sabotage NASA’s Plans to Find Alien Life

Bird-Watching Is Better When You Unplug

Iceland’s Orca Pods Mysteriously Include Baby Pilot Whales

As Oceans Warm, Scientists Fight to Save Lush Kelp Forests

Why NASA’s VIPER Lunar Rover Is Still in Limbo

Strange Formations on Venus Hint at Ongoing Geological Activity

Trump USDA Restores Climate Information for Farmers after Lawsuit

Black Hole Mergers Show Strange Mathematical Link to String Theory

Migraine Drug Ubrogepant Tackles Debilitating Early Symptoms

Science Tells Us the U.S. Is Heading toward a Dictatorship

Wiggling Sperm Power a New Male Fertility Test

West Texas Measles Cases Threaten Elimination Status in the U.S. Here’s Why That Matters

What Are AI Chatbot Companions Doing to Our Mental Health?

Hurricanes, Wildfires and Other Disasters Displaced a Record 46 Million People Last Year

How to Build a ‘Black Hole Bomb’

How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives

California Told Companies to Label Toxic Chemicals. Instead They’re Quietly Dropping Them

Babesiosis, a Tick-Borne Disease That Resembles Malaria, Is on the Rise

Ways To Cope When Your Child Gets A Life-Altering Diagnosis

U.K. Funds Geoengineering Experiments as Global Controversy Grows

Breeding for ‘Cuteness’ Is Making Dogs and Cats Look More Alike

Knitting’s Complex Shapes Explained in New Physics Model

Kosmos-482 Falls, Cuttlefish Wave, and the Wealthy Warm the Climate

Large Hadron Collider Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second

Climate Change Will Cause a Lifetime of Extreme Heat for Today’s Children

Stronger Solar Activity Cycles May Be in the Sun’s Forecast

Trump Aims to Cut Hospital Disaster Preparedness Program

Do We Really Know Less about the Deep Sea Than the Moon or Mars?

Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’

The Strange and Surprising History of the Once-Rejected Zero

What Is a Galaxy?

Measuring Gluons and Quarks at the Brookhaven Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider, the Nation’s Only Particle Collider