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Taking advantage of an enzyme mutation to help soybeans fight a billion-dollar pest

Primate brains might have evolved to 'catch up' with larger bodies, but then kept growing

How giant earthquakes can form at fault planes where theory says they should not

Can AI plan for heat emergencies better than simple rules? It depends

Meditation and speaking in tongues: The surprising similarities between two spiritual practices

Single-atom catalyst turns lignin into valuable chemicals with near-complete conversion

Crystal-design principle reveals how competing molecular forces control structure, color and phase transitions

Venezuela earthquakes highlight the limits of early warning systems

World's first synthetic cell with a complete life cycle could revolutionize biological engineering

New bioelectronic microdevices enable remote cell stimulation using ultrasound

The universe is less uniform than we thought—cosmology may need a radical rethink

Mobile learning output expanded rapidly from 2017 to 2026, analysis of 2,500 papers shows

Climate resilience of brown bears over 175,000 years revealed in 3D analyses of their jaws

13,000 tons of space junk clutters Earth orbit. Here's how it could be cleaned up

Prickly starfish and urchins are decimating Australia's reefs. But we could find ways to protect them

XMM-Newton and Chandra help revise distance to Milky Way's outer spiral arms

Tooth fossil analysis suggests 'brawn before bite' in early Asian mammals

'I hate you!': What little kids really mean when they say this

Martian dust storms may generate atmospheric electrical conditions that could impact future missions

ESA outlines high-tech lander instruments for 2050 Enceladus

Orbit overload could devastate astronomy if 1.7 million proposed satellites brighten night sky

How a giant planet survived its star's death, then migrated inward

Urokodia! 518-million-year-old fossil shows beginning of spider's bite

Algae may have launched coral reefs by hijacking coral cells, genetic experiments suggest

From fields to space farming, new tool detects crop drought stress before it's visible

Perfluorooctanoic acid in the Seto Inland Sea: Variability, transport, and fate

Black-box optimization weather intervention method supports future disaster mitigation

Video: Thousands of planets are hidden in this image

Woodcock charge deer to defend nests, footage reveals

400-year-old painting reveals a bat's secret diet

Are you 'happee' or are you 'happeh?' Study links accents to social classes

Mismatched work–life boundaries while working from home can push couples toward breaking up

What made trees possible? New research points to drought

Were Clovis foragers in Late Pleistocene North America big-game hunters, or just big-game scavengers?

Why taking a sick day depends on more than being sick

Webb reveals merger scars in galaxies that stopped forming stars 9 billion years ago

Helping children navigate the emotional aftershocks of an earthquake

Galaxy groups hiding in the universe's emptiest places

Darwin residents want answers on toxic gas emissions: Science shows their concerns are warranted

Himalayan pangolin emerges as distinct species, confirmed with DNA from 19th-century specimen

Polymer network reconfigures in sequence, helping elastomers stay tough under strain

NASA rolls out three robotic moon missions as 2029 lunar base plans take shape

World's oceans break June heat record: EU monitor

NASA vows to send ball to the moon if US wins World Cup

Italy displays paintings from an ancient Etruscan tomb, its latest cultural acquisition

Physicists and AI model Claude 'collaborate' to prove a 10-year-old jamming conjecture

AI-based demand forecasting creates planning reliability in the textile industry

New modeling shows where to focus conservation efforts for Australia's endangered alpine ash

Cosmic eruption caught in the act by submillimeter array's new fastest response system

Abundant catalyst converts methane into valuable liquid chemicals