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The return of the Presidential Physical Fitness Award likely won’t improve children’s health, experts say

Portable sensor detects PFAS in water on-site, cutting need for costly lab tests

AI matches human teachers: Brief pre-lecture chat boosts students' brain synchrony and learning outcomes

Why we need to treat Earth like a spaceship

What Your Dream Life Says About You

Buried in Arnhem Land, an ancient fire trick may rewrite early stone technology's timeline

'What do you want to be?' The spark that helps Indigenous people go to university

Heat‑resistant corals could help reefs adapt to climate change

Federal grant terminations disproportionately impact minority scientists, study finds

Red-light therapy does have health benefits but not the ones you think

Deforestation could trigger Amazon tipping point in the 2030s

'Not just hot water': Marine heat waves can create toxic relationship between seagrasses and microbes

'Much‑needed fresh air': 5 outcomes from the world's first summit on ending fossil fuels

Fewer insects, fewer nutritious crops: Pollinator decline puts human health at risk

School cell phone bans deliver benefits—but not right away

Diaspora distress: When geopolitical conflict follows immigrant workers into the office

Webb and Hubble find massive star clusters emerge faster

Gas prices are spiking. So why aren’t U.S. oil companies drilling more?

The brain processes overheard words under anesthesia, but it may not remember them

What can singing mice say about human speech?

Deforestation may push Amazon degradation threshold below 2°C warming

Dark proteome yields 1,785 new microproteins that could reshape disease research

A new kind of CRISPR could treat viral infection and cancer by shredding sick cells' DNA

How to build cities for wildlife, not just people

A low-cost rotavirus test could save childrens’ lives in Nigeria

What Causes Lightning? The Answer Keeps Getting More Interesting.

The Trump administration is bringing back flavored vapes. Advocates and lawmakers say the risks outweigh the benefits

Hunters' appreciation of a targeted deer-management program transcends harvest

The lost koala: New fossil species was hiding in plain sight for 100 years

How Potatoes Shaped the Genes of the First People to Grow Them

What working‑class boys need to succeed at school: Respect and open conversations

Landsat 9 captures Russia's restless Shiveluch volcano mid-eruption

A tale as old as time: Young, attractive femme fatale lore appears in nearly every culture

Over 60% of developing countries face overlapping socioeconomic and water security challenges, scientists warn

Feeling underqualified can help drive performance or toxic behavior—depending on one psychological factor

Hologram technology where 'light becomes the key' enables hard-to-copy security

Freshwater mussel protein offers new source of inspiration for medical-grade glues

Huge landslide in Alaska caused 481m-high tsunami

Neandertals used rhinoceros teeth as tools

Robin Wall Kimmerer's Braiding Sweetgrass is still an essential read

A persistent quantum computing error finally explained

A 1,500-foot tsunami took scientists by surprise. Now we know why it happened

OpenBind's first data and model release marks a milestone for AI enabled drug discovery

‘Touchy-feely’ dark matter is having a moment

Read the winner of this year’s Young Science Writer Award

What are AI agents? Inside a real experiment where AI ran a start‑up

When strength in numbers stops working: Climate extremes rewrite monkey society in Costa Rica

Radical shifts to sustainability call for a new kind of legal thinking, researchers argue

'Indian Niño' drove record heat in 2023 and 2024, new study finds

New AI method tackles one of science’s hardest math problems