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Giant tortoise migration in the Galápagos may be stymie...

An invasion of Spanish cedar trees on Santa Cruz Island may block the seasonal m...

The desert planet in ‘Dune’ is plausible, according to ...

Humans could live on the fictional planet Arrakis from Dune but (thankfully) no ...

Why large language models aren’t headed toward humanlik...

Unlike people, today's generative AI isn’t good at learning concepts that it can...

A genetic parasite may explain why humans and other ape...

Around 25 million years ago, a stretch of DNA inserted itself into an ancestral ...

Odysseus’ historic moon mission comes to an end, for now

Officials announced that the lunar lander has downloaded data from all payloads ...

Snake venom toxins can be neutralized by a new syntheti...

A lab-made protein protected mice from lethal doses of paralyzing toxins found i...

The Brazilian flea toad may be the world’s smallest ver...

Brazilian flea toads are neither a flea nor a toad, but they are almost flea-siz...

How two outsiders tackled the mystery of arithmetic pro...

Computer scientists made progress on a decades-old puzzle in a subfield of mathe...

On hot summer days, this thistle is somehow cool to the...

In hot Spanish summers, the thistle Carlina corymbosa is somehow able to cool it...

The first U.S. lunar lander since 1972 touches down on ...

50-plus years after Apollo 17, a private U.S. company hauling NASA payloads land...

50 years ago, computers helped speed up drug discovery

In 1974, a computer program helped researchers search for promising cancer drugs...

JWST spies hints of a neutron star left behind by super...

Signs of highly ionized atoms in dusty clouds at SN 1987A’s explosion site sugge...

Ancient trees’ gnarled, twisted shapes provide irreplac...

Traits that help trees live for hundreds of years also foster forest life, one r...

Physicist Sekazi Mtingwa considers himself an apostle o...

After big contributions in accelerator physics, Sekazi Mtingwa has been focused ...

The United States was on course to eliminate syphilis. ...

Science News spoke with expert Allison Agwu about what’s driving the surge and h...

Social media harms teens’ mental health, mounting evide...

Recent studies suggest a causal link between teen social media use and reduced w...

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