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An endangered mouse may need a helping hand to adapt to climate change

How to invent a realistic language for fictional speakers

Know the legal age to buy tobacco products in the U.S.? Many parents don’t

A strange ‘neutrino force’ helped heal a crack in particle physics

A new measurement reveals gravity is still hard to pin down

This tree is number one for cloud forest mammals going number two

Breath carries clues to gut health

Some GLP-1 drugs are more effective for those with specific gene variants

Math long resisted a digital disruption. AI is poised to change that

New mutations help the H5N1 bird flu virus infect cows but not people

Smithsonian secrets most likely to blow your mind

Is AI bad for critical thinking? It depends on when you use it

Fluoride in U.S. drinking water does not reduce IQ, a new study finds

Talking dogs and chatty cats could one day ‘speak’ in our language

For gray whales, San Francisco Bay is becoming a deadly pit stop

Artemis II ends its historic lunar journey

Exploding black holes could explain an antimatter mystery

Crossword: Traveling Light

Seeing and imagining activate some of the same brain cells

Emperor penguins are marching toward extinction. Antarctica fur seals too

Even before splashdown, Artemis II is delivering a scientific treasure trove

Hawaii is turning ocean plastic into roads to fight pollution

Mummified reptile hints at the origins of how we breathe

The ‘oldest fossil octopus’ is probably another animal

The first-ever ‘Earthset’ image marks another Artemis II milestone

A new book finds parenting inspiration in the animal kingdom

Human echolocation works step by step

Artemis II: NASA’s Orion heads home after a historic loop around the moon

Snippets of hair may expose chronic stress in war refugees

When our minds wander to the body, it may affect mental health

Supreme Court ruling on ‘conversion therapy’ puts medical talk in the hot seat

Huge Numbers tackles mathematics at its most incomprehensibly large

Fossils reveal many complex animals existed before the Cambrian explosion

To climb trees, cicadas look to the shadows

The oldest known dice date back about 12,000 years in North America

Artemis II sends humans around the moon for first time since Apollo

Digital heart twins can guide a lifesaving procedure

A fossil reveals early relatives of spiders — armed with claws

Just 10,000 quantum bits might crack internet encryption schemes

Pronatalists want more babies. Their solutions aren’t rooted in science

A comet may have flipped its spin and entered into a death spiral

Secrets of the Bees zooms in on life in a hive

Heavy soil tilling for agriculture can do more harm than good

Quantum physics can confirm where someone is located

How snakes defy gravity to stand tall

Welcome to the weird world of AI agent teams

A rare star in a tiny galaxy preserves a record of the early universe

Watch the first video of a sperm whale birth captured by scientists

Early apes may not have evolved in East Africa