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Ice Age carvers used mammoth tusk patterns to create unique art, study finds

Spring-like porous crystals could enable chemically responsive microscale materials

Some governments may hide a budget surplus to justify a tax hike

A 6-nanometer vapor barrier insulates ice during rapid heating

Climate change is putting the squeeze on the world's grapegrowers

The science behind greener, healthier lawns

3D scans reveal how lichen fungi grip algae across cell walls

Heat-related lost labor emerges as a major cost of carbon emissions

Pufferfish taste receptor more versatile than a human's, detecting both savory L- and sweet D-amino acids

When equity appeals inspire giving to classrooms, what they signal matters

How some cyclists paradoxically start 'from rest' with a non-zero velocity

Measuring milk's carbon footprint

Half-billion-year-old fossils rewrite the origin story of starfish

Quantitative training overhaul needed in ecology

Dual findings reveal how to control coherence in plasmonic nanolasers

Mathematician challenges a 2,000-year-old legend about the Parthenon's optical illusions

Double dip: Sampling contaminants of emerging concern two ways improves accuracy

New species of egg-eating snake discovered in Ethiopia's Harenna Forest

Growing up in poverty triples young people's likelihood of becoming NEET

Caffeine pollution could disrupt crustacean defenses against predators

Microbes can produce adhesive materials from glucose instead of petroleum

Three questions: Putting nuclear waste into perspective

Heating mica to 200°C reveals friction independent of sliding speed

How bacteria hijack viruses to shuffle their own DNA

Beach-burrowing beasties may shovel more sand than any other animal on Earth

A 16-minute train delay shows how a solar storm disrupted Victorian technology

The Mediterranean is getting warmer and saltier at an ever-faster pace—even thousands of meters below the surface

Is pasta a type of noodle? The surprisingly serious debate over two beloved carbs

Nearly 50 'ghost galaxies' emerge around three hosts, challenging dwarf galaxy counts

The hidden cost of pressure to be a perfect parent

A third of Americans cannot name the three branches of government

Webb measures extreme gas outflows from distant 'dead' galaxies

Thousands of the most vulnerable children and young people missing out on mental health support

Sibling interactions are an untapped resource for early engineering education, study suggests

New breeding approach targets crop rotations, not yield alone

Fewer than half of Americans expect free and fair midterms

Australia's ancient rainfall patterns more complex than previously believed

'Invisible work' of AI falls disproportionately to middle managers, women

Weeping whales: Stillborn humpback whale grieving documented

Nine in 10 UK gambling websites breach data privacy law, study finds

First-of-its-kind preventive phage therapy provides promising results against Salmonella

New simulations link unusual particle diffusion to yielding in soft jammed matter

'Born-again' star offers rare chance to watch stellar evolution in real time

Speeding glaciers drive half a century of polar ice loss

The local costs of remote sensing: Examining the ethics of laser scanning in tropical forests

Wildfires push endangered Sumatran elephants to brink: Indonesian NGO

SpaceX prepares for first orbital flight of Starship rocket

US acknowledges for the first time that it has deployed weapons in space

Well-preserved tooth from Pacific mastodon found in a creek in San Francisco Bay Area

A world 20 light-years away reveals surprisingly organized, Jupiter-like weather