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Q&A: How the legal opium market shaped global trade—and led to an opioid crisis

A leading journal finds that AI is flooding academic publishing with lower quality work

Proton beam timing tool could check radiotherapy energy before nearly every treatment

How sulfur oxidation states shape the behavior of sugar-based surfactant molecules

Azide-to-diazo reaction unlocks safer path to versatile nitrogen-rich compounds

Seeing an eclipse from Earth is awe‑inspiring—for astronauts in space, the scene was even more grand

How photosynthetic bacteria pass light along: Two major energy pathways identified

The way a cell fails to divide after copying its DNA can determine its fate

Policies intended to protect trade secrets may limit late-career wages

A new way to plan trajectories to asteroids

Slower access, faster chemistry: Nanoreactor design improves catalysis by balancing molecular flow

Americans care more about future generations than many think—and that gap could matter for policy

Bigger, faster, but still outfoxed: How prey escape predators

5th-century Belgian burial with 'scrap metal' may reveal missing link between Roman and Merovingian monetary systems

Dolls beat screens for building children's social skills, study finds

New lithium-plasma engine passes key Mars propulsion test

How genetic information helps cells resist chaos and stay alive

Living near a gas station raises childhood cancer risk, study shows

Understanding the inspiration for social entrepreneurship

Explosive evaporation unlocks new possibilities in 3D printing and chemical analysis

Sentinel-1D goes live: A milestone for Europe's radar mission

AI tackles one of math's most brutal problems: Inverse PDEs

'A study showed…' isn't enough—scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers revisit questions

Long-term study of COVID lockdown and family life shows unexpected, lasting effects on fatherhood

Sramcbled wrods: The real reason you can still read jumbled text

Should politics influence science, and vice versa? National Science Board's ousting resurrects an existential debate

When the Schuylkill swallowed the city: Lessons from Hurricane Ida's historic flood

After flames strip hillsides bare, the next storm can unleash something far more destructive downstream

How to talk to children when terrorist attacks and violence dominate the news

Intimate partner violence is a hidden contributor to women's suicide

DESI-HVS1 is an old hypervelocity star ejected from the galactic center, observations suggest

Hunting the elusive Eta Aquariid meteors

Under crushing hypergravity, fruit flies adapt—and recover

AI-powered forecasts sharpen early warning for destructive crop pest

Physicists achieve first-ever 'quadsqueezing' quantum interaction

Study reveals why food waste rises, falls as incomes grow

Physicists have measured 'negative time' in the lab

New laws cut cannabis arrests, but racial disparities persist

A better way to search for extraterrestrial intelligence

Why do polar bears approach human infrastructure? The answer is more complex than we thought

Researchers find providing a 'solution package' for customers may actually weaken buyer-supplier relationships

Dinosaurs may have originated 10 million years earlier than fossils show

Children's voices overlooked in research consent processes, experts warn

What celebrity worship says about self-worth

How do close binary stars form?

How oak trees outwit their predators

India's cows offer biogas alternative to Mideast energy crunch

Wreckage of a US Coast Guard ship lost during WWI has been found off the coast of England

A citizen campaign returns iconic kiwi birds to New Zealand's capital after a century-long absence

The rich are more likely to use AI, exposing a new digital divide