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The Future of Driving in the U.S. Is Electric—Sort Of

The EPA’s final rule on car emissions will result in far fewer battery-powered e...

What Climate Change Means for Your Garden

Climate change is affecting every aspect of gardening, including what plants thr...

How Much Energy Would It Take to Blow the Earth to Smit...

A mathematical formula shows what would be needed to reduce the planet to cosmic...

Why Measles Outbreaks in the U.S. Are Happening, and Ho...

A growing number of measles cases in the U.S. has experts worried about how a de...

Pig Kidney Transplanted into Living Human for First Time

Doctors have transplanted a genetically modified pig kidney into a living human ...

Banning TikTok Would Do Basically Nothing to Protect Yo...

Proposed restrictions on TikTok would be “security theater” in the face of the s...

What to Know about Measles Outbreaks in the U.S.

A growing number of measles cases in the U.S. has experts worried about how a de...

Can AI Replace Human Research Participants? These Scien...

Several recent proposals for using AI to generate research data could save time ...

How Do Babies Realize They Can Influence the World?

An infant’s aha! moment may hold secrets to the origins of agency

We Need a Public Service Internet to Free Us from Big T...

The profit-led business models of big tech are harming democracy. We should look...

Babies Smell Sweet, but Teenagers Stink. Is Evolution t...

Carboxylic acids make teens give off a pungent olfactory mix redolent of cheese,...

How Artificial Intelligence Helped Write this Award-Win...

Machine-learning algorithms allow composers to create all-new instruments.

Earth Has More Than One Moon

Quirks of orbital mechanics make a cadre of sun-orbiting asteroids appear to be ...

The Cognitive Neuroscientist Who Helped Unravel the Mys...

Ursula Bellugi was fixated on how we learn language. Her groundbreaking research...

Mathematician Who Tamed Randomness Wins Abel Prize

Michel Talagrand innovative work has allowed others to tackle problems involving...

NASA Slashes Budget for Chandra, Its Greatest X-ray Obs...

The Chandra X-ray Observatory faces a premature end under new funding cuts propo...

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