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The enzyme that doesn't act like one: NUDT5 controls DNA building block production through structure, not catalysis

In the US, Western rivers may be allies in the fight against climate change

Evolution and human height: Mathematician calculates physical limits to how tall we can grow

How quantum computers can aid the search for room-temperature superconductors

How the US cut climate-changing emissions while its economy more than doubled

A brief history of congressional oversight, from Revolutionary War financing to Pam Bondi

Why Bill Gates' climate memo is being celebrated by skeptics while frustrating scientists

Creating better tools to read our DNA's hidden instructions

Northern lights may be visible in parts of the US due to solar storms

Competing rivals can become powerful partners in global markets

Unraveling water's effect on chitin nanocrystals

Spain orders poultry indoors as bird flu spreads

Deer can slow forest diversity—even in sunny forest gaps

World must face 'moral failure' of missing 1.5C: UN chief to COP30

UN says 2025 to be among top three warmest years on record

Arizona's Willcox basin is sinking fast due to groundwater extraction

Brewery waste can be repurposed to make nanoparticles that can fight bacteria

Cold case solved: Team confirms identity of medieval duke from Árpád and Rurik dynasties

Access to water has a long racial history in Durban: I followed the story in the city's archives

Climate change will bring a surge in High Arctic groundwater discharge that will result in contaminant spread

Older adults share more political misinformation. Here's why.

Motor protein 'hook' reveals how neurons deliver cargo with precision

Lessons from Ireland inform US debates on school choice

New polariton technology could advance thin infrared detectors in various industries

Compact laser system shows 80% efficiency for ultrashort light pulses is possible

Wildfire risk making timberland less valuable, long harvest rotations less feasible

Researchers unite to frame deportations as a national health crisis

Simply turning up the heat could transform chemical manufacturing

Entanglement swapping using sum-frequency generation between single photons demonstrated for first time

Temperature triggers distinct RhRu₃Oₓ reaction mechanisms, offering clues for better water-splitting catalysts

Three nonlinear optical materials achieve sub-200-nm cutoff edges for advanced photonics

Digital map increases Roman Empire road network by 100,000 kilometers

Growing transgenic plants in weeks instead of months by hijacking a plant's natural regeneration abilities

Can birds imitate R2-D2? Yes, and some are surprisingly good at it

Boys are still in the grip of crippling masculine stereotypes: 6 findings from a new survey

Porn not 'inherently harmful,' says first inquiry of its kind in Australia

How the plastics industry shifted responsibility for recycling onto you, the consumer

What if the path to ending fossil fuels looked like the fight to end slavery?

Why even pro-climate action organizations may pull in different directions

AI can help the government spend billions better. But humans have to be in charge

How to cook the perfect pasta—we used particle accelerators and reactors to discover the key

Pupils from affluent households are more than 40% more likely to gain a place at a top secondary school, study shows

NASA's ESCAPADE mission to Mars—twin satellites dubbed Blue and Gold will launch in early November

Scientists map DNA folding at single base-pair resolution in living cells

A long, bumpy caterpillar-like wormhole may connect two black holes

Typhoon Kalmaegi hits Vietnam after killing 140 in Philippines

Bright blue aurora formation: Hyperspectral camera captures first precise altitude distribution

AI-designed antibodies created from scratch

Finding the balance for food security in conflict zones

Zuckerberg, Chan shift bulk of philanthropy to science, focusing on AI and biology to curb disease