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Surviving the summer

Will the U.S. megadrought ever end?

This ‘anti-vampiric’ grave used two strategies to stop the undead

What’s behind ‘one of paleontology’s most enduring enigmas’?

Math puzzle: Shape-birding

Big space mirrors could bring Earth on-demand light — and upend our night sky

Nepal’s deadly debris flow points to risks in other high mountain regions

During menopause, brain changes surprisingly take a break

When AI goes rogue, its human overseers may be to blame

These mice have human (nerve cells) on the brain

The U.S. has weapons in space. Here’s what that could mean

Alzheimer’s damage may begin outside the brain

Meet Swiftiephylus, an Australian bug named after Taylor Swift

‘Bogland’ explores beautifully strange ecosystems

Feeling nervous? Work the system

These deep-sea spiders give off an otherworldly glow

These neutrinos from the sun have the lowest energies ever seen

A human set a new mathematical record. Then AI came for it

How the body adapts to extreme heat

Historical art can hide scientific secrets

The Sept. 11 disasters still shape people’s health 25 years later

Climate change is shifting malaria hot spots in Africa

‘Tyrant Lizard Queen’ offers a nuanced look at T. rex

Could a whale swallow a person whole?

AI may have solved one of math’s biggest puzzles, raising controversy

The shingles vaccine may protect the heart

Newfound fossils are spilling Denisovan secrets

Winter work shows it really pays to be a smart mountain chickadee

A choir of katydid ancestors filled the Jurassic rainforest with song

Innocent-looking AI reasoning can make bad behavior harder to catch

Was the ‘American cheetah’ a cheetah at all?

AI agents aren’t ready to replace humans in behavioral research

A culprit for corrosion may have been operating under our noses

New Hubble images reveal a bizarre decagon over Saturn’s south pole

A massive study unveils the genetic underpinnings of fibromyalgia

The universe may have been building rocky planets almost from the start

Dark matter hunters may have finally spotted a hint of the particles

Migraine drugs are getting more precise. Choosing the right one is still tricky

These worms move faster when you give them less space

To nap or not to nap? Science is still waking up to the question

Free-falling atoms in space put a new twist on Galileo’s gravity test

Your skin chemistry may affect which mosquitoes most want to bite you

NASA’s new space telescope will reveal the universe like never before

Tiny tremors can’t always warn when fracking will trigger a bigger quake

Landslides pose the largest risks to those who can least afford them

A space telescope was falling from orbit. Its rescue mission fell apart too

Monkeys hunt small animals when fruit is scarce

Once upon a time, insects had 24 legs

Microbes might get freeze-dried on the moon’s south pole

A new cancer vaccine may keep melanoma from coming back