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A new map traces the sky’s water highways

A quasar breaks the record for most distant supermassive black hole

Whether lefty or righty, practice makes the difference

Meet the Milky Way’s puffiest planets

Pluto has landslides

Here’s what happens when you put politicians in charge of science

Lost in Curiosity reveals the messy reality of doing science

Summit living isn’t a problem for this tiny mouse

Support goes a long way to boost birth control effectiveness

Neandertal babies were a lot like ours — but didn’t stay that way

Can geoengineering blunt El Niño’s fury?

A shoebox-sized satellite could expose hidden nuclear weapons in space

AI tools meant to vet science are surprisingly easy to fool

A robot swarm is on a mission to map Greenland’s perilous ice sheets

Scientists say Beefalo are all beef, no -alo. Breeders disagree

Many U.S. teens underestimate fentanyl’s deadly risk

Pickles glow when you plug them in. Science explains why

‘Hobbits’ likely scavenged dragons’ kills

Giant trees have tricks to work around drought

The natural history of every U.S. state is on display at a new D.C. exhibit

The animal behind most aggressive wildlife encounters may surprise you

Young gulls’ drab plumage may help them avoid adult attacks

This space telescope is falling. A robotic spacecraft may save it

A new species of walking shark has been found in Papua New Guinea

This microbe turns into a cannibalistic ‘Hulk’

Crabs can’t hide from an octopus with a mirror

CERN shutters the Large Hadron Collider for a major transformation

A whopping 14 million species of insects — or more — may roam Earth

A discovery about this bat’s diet was hiding in a Renaissance painting

Acetaminophen in pregnancy shows no link to autism or ADHD, again

How big a cybersecurity threat are the latest AI models, really?

Giant, deep-sea roly-polies steal a gene to endure starvation

Brains break and repair DNA to grow

New science on algae die-offs is too late for the Reflecting Pool

Ancient flowering plants may have used dinosaurs to spread their seeds

We’ve had fire for longer than we thought

A Mars rover found organic carbon just sitting on a rock

A potential hindrance to fusion power may help instead

The world’s largest scorpion lived 415 million years ago

The ‘little brain’ may give the aging mind a big boost

Even ‘safe’ air pollution levels may affect heart health

A new dino fossil may solve an ancient murder mystery

The New World screwworm has returned to the U.S. Now what?

Sea cucumbers harbor ‘zombie’ tissues that won’t die

A tropical permafrost layer in Peru may be one of the world’s largest

Is NASA falling out of love with Mars?

A textbook assumption about early land vertebrates may be wrong

A 2011 earthquake bounced a seismic wave off Earth’s core, nudging Japan east

The truth about brain rot, according to science

A deadly fungus that can infect cats and people is spreading