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Why snakes can go months between meals: A genetic explanation

Experiments with 1,600 volunteers link social exclusion to higher interest in gossip

Where are Europe's oldest people living? What geography tells us about a fragmenting continent

Hudson Valley initiative puts food sovereignty into practice

Schools are increasingly telling students they must put their phones away. Ohio's example shows mixed results

Hard to recycle packaging? This glue could let plastics peel apart on cue

Friendly bacteria can unlock hidden metabolic pathways in plant cell cultures

Simulations and supercomputing calculate one million cislunar orbits

Olives have been essential to life in Italy for at least 6,000 years—far longer than we thought

Reclaiming water from contaminated brine can increase water supply and reduce environmental harm

Women have been mapping the world for centuries, and now they're speaking up for the people left out of those maps

How to ensure affordable, safe and culturally grounded housing for Indigenous older adults

Zambia's farmers are working in dangerous heat: How they can protect themselves

'Inoculation' helps people spot political deepfakes, study finds

Scientists use RNA nanotechnology to program living cells, opening a new path for cancer cure

Grazing and digging put some herbivores at greater risk from toxic elements in soil: New research

Researchers uncover a one-hour 'crown' checkpoint that enables malaria reproduction

Lüften sounds simple, but 'house-burping' is more complicated in Pittsburgh

Funny teachers can make classes more enjoyable—if their jokes land

A digital game improves the mathematical performance of children with dyscalculia

Neutron scans reveal hidden water in famous martian meteorite

New report unpacks the crises facing American journalism and offers solutions

Temperature of some cities could rise faster than expected under 2°C warming

Orange, camphor-smelling solid could be a key to the next generation grid-storage batteries

TESS observations reveal sustained quasi-periodic oscillations in multiple blazars

Hadean zircons reveal crust recycling and continent formation more than 4 billion years ago

Cracking the rules of gene regulation with experimental elegance and AI

AI model OpenScholar synthesizes scientific research and cites sources as accurately as human experts

A minimalist bacterial defense strategy: Scientists discover single protein that disrupts viral assembly

Terahertz microscope reveals the motion of superconducting electrons

Poop as medicine? A Roman vial's chemistry backs up ancient medical texts

An 'AI afterlife' is now a real option—but what becomes of your legal status?

Using influencers to encourage people to drink tap water

Victoria's mountain ash forests naturally thin their trees. So why do it with machines?

An unusual dust storm on Mars reveals how the red planet lost some of its water

Astronomers trace a runaway star to a former companion's supernova

New briefing paper outlines concerns around TikTok moderation policies political influence, and election integrity

Nanobodies: A cure for treatment-resistant depression depression?

A bold calculation: What would it cost to end extreme poverty worldwide?

Experts reveal how a major food crisis might happen in the UK, and what we can do to stop it

'Red Potato' galaxy discovered by astronomers

UK polling clerks struggle to spot fake IDs, study reveals

How cities primed spotted lanternflies to thrive in the US

Stacking the genetic deck: How some plant hybrids beat the odds by erasing lethal genes

CFC replacements behind vast quantities of global 'forever chemical' pollution, research reveals

Launching the idea of data centers in space

Genetic analysis of Deep Maniot Greeks reveals a unique lineage in the Balkans

Engineered antibody targets bacteria-specific sugar, clears lethal drug-resistant infection in mice

The possible applications of olive pomace: A study reveals the most sustainable option

NASA's Artemis II plans to send a crew around the moon to test equipment and lay the groundwork for a future landing