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Your Brain Is Glowing, and Scientists Can’t Figure Out Why

Truly Intelligent AI Could Play by the Rules, No Matter How Strange

Mathematicians Hunting Prime Numbers Discover Infinite New Pattern for Finding Them

See Vera C. Rubin Observatory’s First Images Live with These Watch Parties

RFK, Jr., Fires CDC Vaccine Panel Experts, Ocean Acidification Hits Dangerous Levels, and Pangolins Face Hunting Threat

Could Iran Have Been Close to Making a Nuclear Weapon? Uranium Enrichment Explained

Five Climate Issues to Watch When Trump Goes to Canada

Air-Conditioning Can Help the Power Grid instead of Overloading It

How a Tiny Brain Region Guides Generosity

Quantum Computers Simulate Particle 'String Breaking' in a Physics Breakthrough

Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones

Mapping Nearby Stars Could Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery

Invasive Asian Needle Ant’s Sting Is Painful, Can Cause Anaphylaxis

Djungarian Hamsters Are Unusually Involved Fathers

Trump EPA Announces Climate Regulation Rollback but Faces Legal Hurdles

Brain Implant Lets Man with ALS Speak and Sing with His ‘Real Voice’

Blockbuster New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever

Injured Skin Cells Fire like Neurons to ‘Scream’ for Help

Planned NIH Cuts Threaten Americans’ Health, Senators Charge in Tense Hearing

FEMA Overhaul Will Come after Hurricane Season, Trump Says

Animals Expend 76,000 Gigajoules of Energy Sculpting Our Planet Every Year

New Map Shows How Gun Deaths of Children Have Increased in States with Loose Firearm Laws

Solar Orbiter Captures the First-Ever Images of the Sun’s South Pole

Why Some Animals Live for Days and Others Live for Decades

How RFK, Jr.’s Dismissal of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Will Affect U.S. Vaccine Access

White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA

Gorilla Gourmets Are Actually Truffle Hunting

Can You Still Get a COVID Vaccine This Fall? Here’s What to Know

When Letting Your Mind Wander Helps You Learn

Why the Waymo Car Fires in Recent Los Angeles Protests Caused the Robotaxis to Burn So Completely

How the Mathematics of Honesty Underlies These Auctions

How to Protect Yourself from Recent Salmonella Outbreak in Recalled Eggs

A Mysterious Kidney Disease Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Young Men. What’s behind It?

A Blockbuster ‘Muon Anomaly’ May Have Just Disappeared

Superheroes Represent Something Different to Today’s Kids

Milky Way–Andromeda Collision Is in Doubt, North Atlantic Ocean Heat Surged, and Worms Build Towers

The Trump-Musk Fight Could Have Huge Consequences for U.S. Space Programs

Resilience, a Private Japanese Spacecraft, Crash-Landed on the Moon

Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

Forest Preservation, Tree Planting Could Actually Worsen Climate Change