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September 2024 – The Oldest Known Animal Sex Chromosome Originated in the Octopus Lineage More Than 480 Million Years Ago
August 2024 – Mystery Droplets Inside Cells May Play Vital Roles in Life
August 2024 – Opinion — Lawmakers’ Dodgy Critical Mineral Designations Won’t Boost Clean Energy
August 2024 – These Living Computers Are Made From Human Neurons
May 2024 – ‘Hydrogen Fever’ Erupts After Discoveries of Large Deposits of the Clean Gas
April 2024 – Why We Believe the Myth of High Crime Rates
March 2024 – Solar Eclipse Experiment Will Fly a Kite to Avoid Cloudy Skies
March 2024 – Why Do Colors Change During a Solar Eclipse?
February 2024 – People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words
February 2024 – This Potential Cancer Treatment Requires Modern Alchemy
February 2024 – Aggression Disorders Are Serious, Stigmatized and Treatable
February 2024 – Fighting, Fleeing and Living on Iceland’s Erupting Volcano
February 2024 – Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach’s Music
February 2024 – This Flower Refrigerates Itself to Survive Scorching Summers
January 2024 – Can this AI Tool Predict Your Death? Maybe, But Don’t Panic
December 2023 – Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World Upon Awakening
December 2023 – AI Teaches Robots the Best Way to Pack a Car, a Suitcase—Or a Rocket to Mars
December 2023 – A Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos Could Unlock Deep Cosmic Secrets
December 2023 – First Atlas of Every Mouse Brain Cell Could Improve Neuro Disease Treatments
December 2023 – Zapping the Vagus Nerve Could Relieve Some Long COVID Symptoms
November 2023 – When It Comes to AI Models, Bigger Isn’t Always Better
October 2023 – Traces of Oldest and Largest Solar Storm Found in Buried French Forest
October 2023 – Entangled Light From Multitasking Atoms Could Spark Quantum Breakthroughs
October 2023 – Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision
September 2023 – What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?
August 2023 – Opinion — We Need Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence
August 2023 – What’s the World’s Oldest Language?
July 2023 – Science Reveals How to Roll the Perfect Joint
July 2023 – AI Could Quickly Screen Thousands of Antibiotics to Tackle Superbugs
July 2023 – Can Virtual Reality Mimic Nature’s Power to Make Us Healthier?
July 2023 – This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold
July 2023 – Can AI Replace Actors? Here’s How Digital Double Tech Works
July 2023 – What’s the Faintest Star You Can See in the Sky?
June 2023 – Tonga Eruption Triggered Massive ‘Equatorial Plasma Bubble’
June 2023 – AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is Needed
May 2023 – Tweaking Vegetables’ Genes Could Make Them Tastier—and You’ll Get to Try Them Soon
May 2023 – Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle
April 2023 – Mars Rovers Might Miss Signs of Alien Life, Study Suggests
April 2023 – Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form Inside Atomic Nuclei
April 2023 – NASA’s Perseverance Rover May Already Have Evidence of Ancient Martian Life