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Want to see the 2026 total solar eclipse? An eclipse chaser reveals her tricks and tips

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Birdsong follows a fundamental law of human language

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What was best for Flaco the owl? Wild Inside documentary asks tough questions

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AI just created a virus not found in nature, and scientists are worried

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Anthropic and OpenAI AI agents showed signs of deception during safety tests

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Why Google DeepMind broke up the AlphaFold team

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Did life on Earth only arise once? Perhaps not

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NASA’s Voyager 2 survives daring ‘big bang’ maneuver

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How many paper folds would get you to the moon?

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Is Gen Z actually smoking more? An investigation

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Smoking was supposed to be fading away. Why are young people embracing it again?

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OpenAI’s latest math breakthroughs commit research misconduct, experts say

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Physicists harness sunlight for quantum entanglement

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Can quantum computers solve math’s hardest problem?

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CDC warns of Salmonella outbreak tied to jalapeño peppers sold to Chipotle and QDOBA

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U.S. lawmakers vote to hold Biden’s former medical adviser Anthony Fauci in contempt of Congress

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U.S. approves Moderna’s mRNA vaccine for flu—the first of its kind

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Urban landscapes can boost storms—or break them up

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The Scientific American guide to 2026’s total solar eclipse

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How much of our existence do we owe to sugar?

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Trump CDC pick Erica Schwartz confirmed to lead nation’s top public health agency

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Elon Musk reveals SpaceX plans to build satellite factories on the moon

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Neanderthal genes may give modern humans’ muscles a boost

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Scientists discover a ‘skinny gene’ mutation that acts like Ozempic

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Spectacular images reveal never-before-seen whirlpools on the sun

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How living near mountain lions might actually make you safer

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Mathematicians make a breakthrough on Gauss’s riddle, unsolved for 200 years

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YouTube star Simone Giertz has some life and science lessons to share with you

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Psilocybin could kick-start anorexia recovery, early results suggest

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La Brea Tar Pits disgorge rare ice age toad

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Wormholes could be the key to time travel

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Newly discovered carnivorous plant is as deceptive as it is deadly

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Project backed by Leonardo DiCaprio and Jeff Bezos aims to save 100 critically endangered species

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A SpaceX rocket is about to hit the moon—these videos show what could happen

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An Ichthyosaur’s terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day 160 million years ago

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The U.S. military needs tungsten, but pristine NASA site may stand in the way

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It’s 90 degrees in the Arctic right now

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Washington’s wildfires are a warning for the entire U.S.

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Cyclospora outbreak tied to two deaths as parasite-borne illness continues to rage

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Senate funding resolution seeks to put OMB rule changes to research grants on hold

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How Antarctica’s Blood Falls came to be

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Daddy long legs perform fellatio—and other wild facts about how these arachnids mate

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Cyclosporiasis cases surge while new research questions ‘protein maxxing’

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Postpartum psychosis is at the center of the Lindsay Clancy trial. What is it?

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AI helped produce two proofs for the same cryptography problem

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Eating less protein could help you live longer

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How to surf on Saturn’s moon Titan

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Secret eruption offers tantalizing glimpse of underwater volcanoes

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The untold science and drama of Lewis and Clark’s expedition

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How flowers shaped the world as we know it

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