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April 2023 – NASA’s Perseverance Rover May Already Have Evidence of Ancient Martian Life

April 2023 – Physicists See ‘Strange Matter’ Form Inside Atomic Nuclei

April 2023 – Mars Rovers Might Miss Signs of Alien Life, Study Suggests

May 2023 – Betelguese’s Brightening Raises Hopes for a Supernova Spectacle

May 2023 – Tweaking Vegetables’ Genes Could Make Them Tastier—and You’ll Get to Try Them Soon

June 2023 – AI Chatbots Could Help Provide Therapy, but Caution Is Needed

June 2023 – Tonga Eruption Triggered Massive ‘Equatorial Plasma Bubble’

July 2023 – What’s the Faintest Star You Can See in the Sky?

July 2023 – Can AI Replace Actors? Here’s How Digital Double Tech Works

July 2023 – This Is How the First-Ever U.S. Asteroid Sample Return Will Unfold

July 2023 – Can Virtual Reality Mimic Nature’s Power to Make Us Healthier?

July 2023 – AI Could Quickly Screen Thousands of Antibiotics to Tackle Superbugs

July 2023 – Science Reveals How to Roll the Perfect Joint

August 2023 – What’s the World’s Oldest Language?

August 2023 – Opinion — We Need Intellectual Property Laws for Artificial Intelligence

September 2023 – What Does It ‘Feel’ Like to Be a Chatbot?

October 2023 – Astronomers May Have Witnessed Worlds in Collision

October 2023 – Entangled Light From Multitasking Atoms Could Spark Quantum Breakthroughs

October 2023 – Traces of Oldest and Largest Solar Storm Found in Buried French Forest

November 2023 – When It Comes to AI Models, Bigger Isn’t Always Better

December 2023 – Zapping the Vagus Nerve Could Relieve Some Long COVID Symptoms

December 2023 – First Atlas of Every Mouse Brain Cell Could Improve Neuro Disease Treatments

December 2023 – A Hunt for Sterile Neutrinos Could Unlock Deep Cosmic Secrets

December 2023 – AI Teaches Robots the Best Way to Pack a Car, a Suitcase—Or a Rocket to Mars

December 2023 – Why Do We Dream? Maybe to Ensure We Can Literally ‘See’ the World Upon Awakening

January 2024 – Can this AI Tool Predict Your Death? Maybe, But Don’t Panic

February 2024 – This Flower Refrigerates Itself to Survive Scorching Summers

February 2024 – Secret Mathematical Patterns Revealed in Bach’s Music

February 2024 – Fighting, Fleeing and Living on Iceland’s Erupting Volcano

February 2024 – Aggression Disorders Are Serious, Stigmatized and Treatable

February 2024 – This Potential Cancer Treatment Requires Modern Alchemy

February 2024 – People Have Very Different Understandings of Even the Simplest Words

March 2024 – Why Do Colors Change During a Solar Eclipse?

March 2024 – Solar Eclipse Experiment Will Fly a Kite to Avoid Cloudy Skies

April 2024 – Why We Believe the Myth of High Crime Rates

May 2024 – ‘Hydrogen Fever’ Erupts After Discoveries of Large Deposits of the Clean Gas

August 2024 – These Living Computers Are Made From Human Neurons

August 2024 – Opinion — Lawmakers’ Dodgy Critical Mineral Designations Won’t Boost Clean Energy

August 2024 – Mystery Droplets Inside Cells May Play Vital Roles in Life

September 2024 – The Oldest Known Animal Sex Chromosome Originated in the Octopus Lineage More Than 480 Million Years Ago

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