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The human voice

Why did humans’ brains surpass chimps’? A tiny foe might help explain it

Eating too much sugar on antibiotics could squash helpful gut bacteria

Electric stoves could help people with asthma breathe easier

A nanoparticle revealed the tiny impact of a single gas atom

Was van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’ a flight of fancy or a real sky?

This ‘living drug’ could change the course of autoimmune disease

AI could turn scientific papers into research assistants

A lifesaving medication is not behind the drop in U.S. overdose deaths

Peek into hidden worlds revealed by the 2026 Nikon Small World contest

What can minerals tell us about Earth’s past? This geologist is finding out

Rule breaking by just a few people can be contagious

A quantum computing feat brings the ‘megaquops’ era a step closer

AI can give you your voice back

These tiny snakes cartwheel to escape danger

Japan’s sample return mission to Phobos may also collect some Mars dust

Horned dinosaurs’ weapons evolved to handle the forces of combat

Artemis II results show how much science people can do at the moon

Crossword: Time lines

Many American diets may not include enough of this essential nutrient

A telling hole in a Neandertal bone hints at a bitter end

Brain implants are helping people who’ve lost their voice

Can math stay human in the age of AI?

Tiny implants can use the body itself to talk to each other

Voyager 1 is nearly one light-day from Earth. What’s out there?

To turn invisible, we need to tweak the path light travels

A duo goes against the tide to explain an origin of human endurance

What happens when you lose your voice?

Scarred blood vessels may be one clue to APOE4’s Alzheimer’s risk

When climate change brings the heat, what happens to a mighty redwood?

How the Grand Canyon could have lost 1 billion years of geologic history

Here’s a look at the Nobel Prizes for science

Kilauea’s display is revealing why volcanoes spew like a fountain show

An experimental drug kills fat cells, rather than shrinking them

Gene therapy and special goggles give some blind people limited sight

A quake on Mars may have set these rocks rolling

Remember the ‘caregiving kills’ study? Reality is more nuanced

An extinct crocodilian was found among rocks that built the Great Sphinx

‘A Mother’s Brain’ explores the neuroscience of motherhood

The world’s loudest bird could drown out a rock concert

Your voice is more than sound. It’s part of who you are

Scientists may have seen dark matter. If they did, what exactly is it?

A ‘phoenix’ planet was born from the ashes of its dead star

Astronomers say they’ve spotted the first miniature quasar pointed at Earth

Young Yosemite toads survive winter, then emerge with a deadly fungus

Are hypernovas real?

Here’s how brain-eating amoebas may infect people

A video of a humpback whale and her dead calf reveals the animals’ bond

A new map points out U.S. rivers most worth protecting