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Culture is humanity’s secret for world domination. This calculation shows just how powerful it is

Even though astronomers didn’t detect alien tech signals from a rare interstellar visitor, the results are worthwhile, they say

The long-anticipated “Schedule F” order strips job protections meant to safeguard federal employees from political interference

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

Unprecedented results against a stubbornly hard-to-treat cancer are boosting optimism that other challenging tumors will be next

MAVEN was the first successful mission designed to study the atmosphere of Mars. It also became a vital node of NASA’s communications network at the Red Planet

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers found genetic material from his gut microbiome and identified yeasts that continue to exist despite the mummy being kept below freezing

The past year has been “filled with turmoil” for science, National Academy of Sciences president Marcia McNutt said during her State of the Science address

The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of rejection

Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces called “dark energy” affecting the cosmos?

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

Fill your bingo card with fascinating science stories, discoveries and ideas all summer long for a chance to win prizes

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

As General Dwight D. Eisenhower prepared for D-Day, he needed a forecast. The new movie Pressure shows the tense make-or-break weather prediction that led to the successful invasion of Europe that spelled the beginning of the end of World War II

High-bandwidth memory keeps powerful AI chips fed with data, and demand for it helped Boise, Idaho–based Micron briefly top $1 trillion in market value

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

Unseasonably hot weather in Europe has already claimed at least 18 lives. And history shows more are likely on the way

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

A new look at how everything from handwriting to AI quietly reshapes our bodies, habits and sense of connection

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

How animals use Earth’s magnetic field to navigate is one of biology’s biggest unsolved mysteries. This study proposes a totally new source for the sixth sense

A near-miss incident and a deadly chemical accident in a single week have affected thousands and drawn scrutiny to federal rules around risk management at chemical plants

Wemby’s height gives him an advantage in blocking and rebounding, but how does the tallest player in the NBA keep hitting all those threes?

Biochemist Kamala Baghvat, later known as Kamala Sohonie, forced open the doors of India’s male-only laboratories and used her knowledge to help feed a nation

Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club will get a lot bigger

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

A record-setting collection of precisely measured gravitational waves reveals new information about how black holes behave and evolve

Generating and confirming the randomness of qubits could lead to breakthroughs in computer data encryption

The discarded fragments of this creature apparently refuse to die, leading researchers to claim immortality

A new study could help identify promising treatments to extend the human lifespan, researchers say

At an event at NASA Headquarters, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost