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Moms' learned fear of snakes gets inherited by offspring in a critically endangered mouse, biologists discover

Reconnecting the last wild landscapes of the Javan leopard

Q&A: How approval processes drive up housing costs in major cities

The next-generation Very Large Array prototype gathers its first light

Great apes: What we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

Asteroid dirt is 'fluffier' than we thought

Species of Brazilian moths described in honor of Orixás, foundational deities of Afro-Brazilian religions

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect—even as more companies implement it

Monitoring reveals elevated antidepressant levels in some waterways

Dynamic nanogates let longer molecules pass faster through flexible pores

Q&A: Why scientists are studying a microbe they found in a sink

Nitric oxide overload jams plant immune signals, researchers find

A new capability to detect chemical weapons involves two existing methods

Tanzania's iconic heritage sites face damage from state-backed tourism

How methane policy will make or break the climate crisis

How Jupiter may have redirected life's ingredients toward Earth 4.5 billion years ago

Plants boost carbon uptake through water efficiency, not heat adaptation, global analysis reveals

AI offers promise for agriculture, but smallholder farmers risk being left behind

Interstellar object 3I/ATLAS reveals no technosignatures in seven-hour radio scan

A very strong El Niño is approaching. Here's what we can expect

Research could pave the way for more resilient winter cereals in warmer climates

Japan's new seafloor record could sharpen megathrust earthquake warnings in Nankai Trough

Why 'psychopath' is a dangerous label when it comes to criminal justice

Thundering footsteps warn caterpillars of lethal ladybeetle attacks

Why doesn't coffee taste like caffeine?

PFAS in ski wax: Despite bans, these forever chemicals linger in wax rooms—so does their health risk

Programmable chemistry unlocks drugs only in target cells, aiming to cut side effects

Temperature gaps help sneeze clouds stay denser and travel farther, experiments show

Water-wave tweezers steer tiny 'surfers' without touching them

Antimicrobial peptide naturally found in cows breaks Klebsiella biofilms and kills drug-resistant bacteria

New route to tailor-made diamond nanoparticles holds promise for quantum applications

A novel strategy to predict the phase diagram of nickel-cobalt alloys

We can predict space weather—what if we could also stop it?

Integrating citizen science with experimental data uncovers how switchgrass adapts flowering by region

Brightness 'gap' in ancient star cluster reveals missing red dwarfs

Sunrise III data release opens rare high-altitude solar views that could sharpen space weather forecasts

Dogs respond to human tone without words, hinting at communication older than language

Nanomagnets control diamond qubits, pointing to more scalable quantum hardware

Attribution constraints reveal stronger future intensification of the upper‑level Hadley circulation

Arctic river deltas face rising climate pressure while holding vast frozen carbon reserves

Open-source software unlocks rapid DNA structure generation and analysis in one workflow

Social networks outsmart cognitive biases: How herding in networks makes populations more rational

Giant fan-shaped structure found under East Antarctica

Real-time fish interaction enlarges young guppy brains, while screen time falls short

Cleaner recycling method unlocks reusable plastics from mixed packaging

Aluminum oxide's irregular atomic surface explains its low reactivity

Warming unlocks ancient carbon in Tibetan permafrost, triggering climate tipping point

Out-of-plane ice bridges reveal new way to suppress frost spreading

8 out of 10 northern fulmar seabirds have plastic in their stomachs, finds study

'Don't scare the cat!' Engineers find smarter way to measure quantum systems