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Rare 1-in-100M ‘Ghost Lobster’ Goes to School to Help Scientists Crack Genetic Mystery–in Time for Halloween

AI Chatbots Will Never Replace Advice From Elders, Say Seven of 10 in New Poll

Underwater Umbrellas Could Protect Coral Reefs From Heat Damage

NASA’s MAVEN Makes 1st Discovery of Atmospheric Effect at Mars

NASA to Unveil Complete Roman Telescope, Host Media Briefing

A simple neuroscience brain trick to stay quiet instead of saying impulsive things you'll regret

Hunter-Gatherers Don’t Have Trouble Sleeping: Why? and What Can We Learn from Them?

NASA Model Wing Lights Up During First Pressure Sensitive Paint Tests

She thought it was just a panic attack. But then remembering a 15-year-old Elizabeth Banks PSA saved her life.

10 Things: Movie Night

Chinese Commercial Reactor Achieves Nuclear Fusion with Clean Hydrogen-Boron Fuel

Genetic Analysis All But Confirms the Most Unique of Humpback Populations Is Actually a Subspecies
A guy went viral for tracking the taste of his own urine. Doctors used to do it all the time.

New Gobi Desert Fossil Rewrites a Chapter of Mammal Evolution
Neil deGrasse Tyson explains the impossible concept of 'nothing' in less than one minute

Arctic Winter Sea Ice Ties Record Low, NASA, NSIDC Scientists Find
This Massive, Deep-Sea Roly Poly Can Go Years Without Food Thanks to a Huge Stomach and a Stolen Gene, Study Suggests
Satellite Images Reveal Greenland and Antarctica Have Lost More Than 12 Trillion Tons of Ice Over the Past 50 Years

NASA ORBIT Challenge 2027

Meet the 'Fire Amoeba,' a Newfound Blobby Organism That's Defying Expectations About How Much Heat Complex Life Can Handle

Researchers Unearth a Clay Tablet Inscribed With the World’s Oldest Peace Treaty

Newly Identified Frog-like Creature Named by Student Scientists After Their Moms

CA Researchers Identify Odors That Repel Honeybees From Pesticides

Archaeologists Risked Their Lives to Save 30,000 Treasures from ISIS Terrorists—New Study Shows How
Web of undersea cables poised to become marine observatory

Cornell Students Aid NASA with Drone Safety in Sky
Two Thousand Years Ago, Julius Caesar Conquered the Settlement That Eventually Became Paris. Archaeologists May Have Just Found It
Some Birdsongs Are More Pleasing to Human Ears Than Others. Higher-Pitched, Complex Calls Tend to Sound More Beautiful to Us

The tilcayo: new wildcat species discovered in Bolivia’s cloud forest
NASA Unveils Winning Designs for Mars Space Food Systems Challenge

NASA’s Hubble Telescope Reaches Milestone, Looks for Elusive Supernova
US-India Satellite Captures Time-lapse Video of Volcanic Eruption

NASA to Study Human Health, Performance During Crew-13 Mission

Bikes Outnumbered Cars on Scottish Rush Hour Route for the First Time Ever

Long-Lost Gertrude Abercrombie Painting Bought by a Bargain Hunter for $30 Could Fetch $250,000

NASA Modernizes Commercial Airline Systems
An Otter Just Returned to New York City's Bronx River for the First Time in a Century. Now, You Can Help Name It

Scientists Pioneer Chemical Bath Method to Restore Aging EV Batteries Without Breaking Them Down

Pomegranates and berries produce a gut metabolite that may improve IBD outcomes

Exceptional Detection Rates of Bladder Cancer Recorded in Study of Simple, Yet State-of-the-Art Test
Mercury Has Wrinkles That Show It's Shrinking. Now, Scientists Say the Planet Has Shriveled Far More Than Previously Thought
Scientists Say the Human Brain Might Be Made of Two Distinct Nervous Systems That Got Squished Together

This Curious Bird Had Never Been Seen Before, and its Discovery Changed Ecuador–Perhaps Forever

Brazil’s new law blames platform design for harming kids, not parents
How a Boat Full of Goats Saved an Island

New AI Model Can Detect Heart Disease Markers in Simple Electrocardiogram Readings–a Breakthrough

NASA Discovery Reveals Complex Water Systems on Early Mars

Ontario teen says he’ll live in ‘modular home’ invention for a year to prove it can end homelessness

Cavemen Used Mammoth Tusk Patterns to Create Unique Art, Reveals New Research

The high school student whose filter uses magnetic oil to trap microplastics
New study: Parks are good for the economy — even the tiny ones

Artemis Moon Tree Dedicated in Honor of Mary W. Jackson
NASA Research Proposes Technology to Seek Earth-Like Exoplanets

Unsealed for the First Time, This 600-yo Tomb in Peru Was Just Declared the ‘Discovery of the Decade’

New Cat Species Identified for the First Time in Over 100 Years–Meet the Tilcayo

Liquid Lifeline: NASA Tech Could Create IV Fluid In Space
Researchers Have Analyzed the Roman Empire’s 190,000-Mile Network of Roads. Turns Out, Not All of Them Led to Rome

Students Win James Dyson Award for Device That Screens Students for Concussions in Just 60 Seconds

A new cat species was just discovered for the first time in 100 years
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