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See the spectacular Lyrid meteor shower at its peak

The Lyrid meteor shower hits its peak from April 21 to April 22. Here’s everythi...

‘Cocaine hippos’ raise tough questions, and scientists ...

“Cocaine hippos,” underground bees, and fresh insights into aging and heart health

Why game theory could be critical in a nuclear war

Military strategists use game theory to evaluate possible strategies—but there a...

How a Renaissance gambling dispute spawned probability ...

A dispute over how to divvy up the pot in an interrupted game of chance led earl...

Master of chaos wins $3M math prize for ‘blowing up’ eq...

For decades, the mathematician Frank Merle has been embracing the messy math beh...

NSF awards record number of coveted PhD fellowships in ...

Quantum science and AI research are big winners just a year after the U.S. fundi...

The science behind the peptide craze

The world of peptides has exploded in wellness circles, but the benefits of inje...

Did AI just solve the mystery of one of El Greco’s most...

For years, art historians believed The Baptism of Christ was likely painted by E...

What is Mythos and why are experts worried about Anthro...

The company says Mythos is too dangerous to release publicly. Cybersecurity expe...

Songbirds reveal the dark side of making new brain cell...

A new study in songbirds might help explain why humans don’t generate many new b...

What’s the weirdest planet in the solar system?

All the sun’s planets are oddballs. But some are more so than others

How your body and brain construct chronic pain

Author Rachel Zoffness breaks down why we have chronic pain and how science show...

AI music is reviving the same fights that shaped the pl...

As AI songs get harder to tell apart from human-made music, an older technology ...

Mars orbiter watches mysterious wave of darkness spread...

Observations by the Mars Express orbiter reveal rapid changes on the Red Planet’...

Why birds were the only dinosaurs to survive Earth’s wo...

How a few unique traits helped modern-style birds—the last living dinosaurs—surv...

Former deputy surgeon general Erica Schwartz nominated ...

The White House has nominated Erica Schwartz to replace NIH director Jay Bhattac...

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