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AI may have solved one of math’s biggest puzzles, raising controversy

The shingles vaccine may protect the heart

Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets

Winter work shows it really pays to be a smart mountain chickadee

A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song

Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch

Was the ‘American cheetah’ a cheetah at all?

AI agents aren’t ready to replace humans in behavioral research

A culprit for corrosion may have been operating under our noses

New Hubble images reveal a bizarre decagon over Saturn’s south pole

A massive study unveils the genetic underpinnings of fibromyalgia

The universe may have been building rocky planets almost from the start

Dark matter hunters may have finally spotted a hint of the particles

Migraine drugs are getting more precise. Choosing the right one is still tricky

These worms move faster when you give them less space

To nap or not to nap? Science is still waking up to the question

Free-falling atoms in space put a new twist on Galileo’s gravity test

Your skin chemistry may affect which mosquitoes most want to bite you

NASA’s new space telescope will reveal the universe like never before

Tiny tremors can’t always warn when fracking will trigger a bigger quake

Landslides pose the largest risks to those who can least afford them

A space telescope was falling from orbit. Its rescue mission fell apart too

Monkeys hunt small animals when fruit is scarce

Once upon a time, insects had 24 legs

Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole

A new cancer vaccine may keep melanoma from coming back

How memories may survive hibernation

Less sugar early in life might decrease dementia risk

Heat therapy for sick frogs lowers sperm levels

Personalized brain stimulation can ease chronic pain

Motor neurons don’t just move muscles. They may direct that motion too

Mysteries of the commonplace

‘Thunderquakes’ do more than shake the ground — they map it

Plants under attack leave behind a surprising call for backup

Shock wave therapy for erectile dysfunction is on the rise

Crossword: Lab Animals

Why Epstein-Barr is the ‘everything virus’

Spikes, claws and stingers have no single best shape

An unproven autism drug got a boost after a White House briefing

Static electricity is a mystery, and scientists are all charged up

A new documentary shows what growing up lion is really like

A record-breaking star could reveal how the Milky Way’s giant black hole spins

No refrigerator, no problem. This experimental vaccine doesn’t need it.

Shrews’ noses grow in winter as their brains shrink

What Spider-Man gets right — and wrong — about turning off superpowers

Snail slime does many jobs thanks to calcium

The COVID-19 vaccine may offer brain cancer patients a surprise benefit

How a brutal drought may have helped unleash yellow fever in Brazil

A light-based scan could detect deadly bowel disease in preterm babies

A photographic memory is wishful thinking