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‘In Botanical Time’ explores the ways Earth’s oldest plants cheat death

How shifting tectonic plates drove Earth's climate swings

Ion trap enables 1 minute in the nanocosmos

Ancient Mesopotamian medical texts reveal the role of divine sanctuaries in treating ear and spleen ailments

Bull sharks are spending longer in Sydney Harbor and other summer grounds—here's how you can stay safe

A faint signal from the Universe’s dark ages could reveal dark matter

9/11 WTC Health Program workforce cut by 25% under Kennedy as patient count rises, advocates say

Surprisingly in sync: Sunlight and sediments reveal climate history of Antarctica

James Webb catches an exoplanet losing its atmosphere in real time

Gaia data release reveals four substructures in open cluster NGC 752

An electrically powered source of entangled light on a chip

Your brain does something surprising when you don’t sleep

As the U.S. marks a year of measles outbreaks, is the disease back for good?

Developmental language disorder can have life-long effects—and it's easily missed in multilingual children

Mars once had a vast sea the size of the Arctic Ocean

Is AI really conscious—or are we bringing it to life?

Can a ‘brain in a vat’ be conscious?

4 shark bites in 48 hours: How what we do on land may shape shark behavior

Study captures rare glimpse into urban hedgehog life—and reveals impact of feeding on garden visits

Deep sea mining is the next geopolitical frontline—and the Pacific is in the crosshairs

Your guide to 29 wildly different theories of consciousness

Which dog breed stereotypes are true? Here’s the science

What is consciousness? Science faces its hardest problem yet

Science crossword: Consciousness carriers

Readers respond to the October 2025 issue

Poem: ‘E = mc²’

Math puzzle: A winning loser

Life’s evil twins—mirror cells—could doom Earth if scientists don’t stop them

JWST could finally spot the very first stars in the universe

How extremophile molds are destroying museum artifacts

Heal injuries faster with new science

February 2026: Science history from 50, 100 and 150 years ago

A bright light in the dark

Scientists discover a hidden RNA 'aging clock' in human sperm

Research finds teacher-student relationship key driver for teacher well-being

Sunscreens made from ground-up wood reach an SPF of over 180

New quantum boundary discovered: Spin size determines how the Kondo effect behaves

Ancient 'spaghetti' in dogs' hearts reveals surprising origins of heartworm

Full value added tax on meat: A first step towards pricing the environmental damages caused by diets

Geomagnetic storm to bring northern lights to central US

Surfer bitten in 4th shark attack off Australia's east coast in 3 days

A common painkiller may be quietly changing cancer risk

Scientists solve a major roadblock holding back cancer cell therapy

Scientists discover why some wounds refuse to heal

A global DNA study reveals a hidden threat in diabetic foot infections

ALMA reveals teenage years of new worlds

A two-week leap in breeding: Antarctic penguins' striking climate adaptation

Examining climate risks to insurance and reinsurance of global supply chains

A wobbling black hole jet is stripping a galaxy of star-forming gas

Building the world's first open-source quantum computer