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‘Star Wars’ holds clues to making speedier spacecraft i...

Controlled fusion, solar sails or ion engines could someday help spaceships trav...

Physicists are mostly unconvinced by Microsoft’s new to...

Majorana qubits could be error resistant. But after a contentious talk at the Gl...

Elite athletes’ poop may hold clues to boosting metabolism

In a small study, mice given fecal transplants from elite cyclists and soccer pl...

Calls to restart nuclear weapons tests stir dismay and ...

Many scientists say “subcritical” experiments and computer simulations make nucl...

Surgeons transplanted a pig’s liver into a human

A genetically modified mini pig’s liver was able to function in the body of a br...

You might be reading your dog’s moods wrong

A dog's physical cues often take a backseat to environmental ones, skewing human...

JWST spots the earliest sign yet of a distant galaxy re...

The galaxy, called JADES-GS-z13-1, marks the earliest sign yet spotted of the er...

What 23andMe’s bankruptcy means for your genetic data

As 23andMe prepares to be sold, Science News spoke with two experts about what’s...

Math puzzle: The Lesser Fool

Solve the math puzzle from our April 2025 issue. In honor of April Fools’ Day, ...

Is that shark ticking? In a first, a shark is recorded ...

The ocean can be a symphony of fish grunts, hums and growls. Now add tooth-clack...

A tardigrade protein helped reduce radiation damage in ...

Mouse cells tweaked to produce the tardigrade protein incurred less DNA damage t...

A nearly century-old dead date palm tree helped solve a...

The iconic Cape Verde date palm came from commercial trees gone feral and could ...

Tuberculosis could be eradicated. So why isn’t it?

John Green’s new book, Everything Is Tuberculosis, reveals how social injustice ...

How silicon turns tomato plants into mean, green, pest-...

Treated plants fight pests without the need for toxic pesticides, oozing a "larv...

Buying carbon credits to fight climate change? Here’s w...

Carbon credits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsettin...

Avoidable deaths increased in the U.S. as they dropped ...

In the United States, deaths that could have been avoided rose, on average, from...