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Tiny Babies Who Can Smell Their Mother Recognize Faces ...

A smell’s effect on facial recognition is key at first—but decreases as a baby’s...

How Marie Curie Helped a Generation of Women Break into...

Marie Curie is well known for her chemistry achievements but less so for helping...

AI Comes to the Nobels: Double Win Sparks Debate about ...

While many researchers celebrated this year’s chemistry and physics prizes, othe...

NASA’s Europa Clipper Spacecraft Aims for Jupiter’s Mos...

For the first time, we are sending a spacecraft to explore an alien ocean world—...

MicroRNA, Protein Folding and Machine-Learning Work Win...

A roundup of the science Nobels, the latest COVID updates and the Europa Clipper...

Birds Practice Singing in Their Sleep

New work listens in on bird dreams

Trump’s Racist Rants against Immigrants Hide under the ...

Anti-immigrant rhetoric in the U.S. comes straight out of the playbook of eugeni...

Trump and Harris Have Vastly Different Plans for Public...

The presidential candidates differ on classroom censorship, school choice, feder...

Hurricane Milton’s Rain and Tornadoes in Florida Broke ...

Never-before-seen rainfall, record-breaking tornado outbreaks and wild wind acce...

Electric School Buses Are a Climate and Health Win with...

Support from the Biden-Harris administration has boosted the already burgeoning ...

Why Disasters Like Hurricanes Milton and Helene Unleash...

Falsehoods spread when uncertainties—and emotions—are high after hurricanes

Poppy Seed Tea Can Trigger a Morphine Overdose

Food and drinks containing unwashed poppyseeds can make people test positive for...

Third-Trimester Abortions Are Moral and Necessary Healt...

Abortions after 20 weeks are about ending suffering. To deny someone that care i...

Human Origins Look Ever More Tangled with Gene and Foss...

Fossil and gene discoveries paint an ever-more-intertwined history of humans com...

Does Singing have an Evolutionary Purpose?

What can singing tell us about how we’re wired—and how our ancestors evolved?

When Will This Exploding Star Blow Its Top?

The famous exploding star T Coronae Borealis is due to detonate any day now, but...

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