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The story of the first kiss—21.5 million years ago

Why the simple act of kissing—which can be traced back 21.5 million years—contin...

Join the Great Backyard Bird Count—for science!

Avian enthusiasts around the world will identify and count birds from February 1...

AI uncovers solutions to Erdős problems, moving closer ...

LLMs have recently helped find solutions to a number of minor longstanding probl...

Did astronomers just see a star blink out to become a b...

A “disappearing” star in the Andromeda galaxy is the closest and best candidate ...

Elephants' peculiar whiskers help them sense the world ...

Pachyderm whiskers are more flexible at the tip than the base, allowing elephant...

EPA scraps the ‘endangerment finding’ that climate chan...

The Trump administration rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding,” ending regul...

How often does the average person fart? Scientists buil...

An intrepid team of scientists has created ‘smart underwear’ to measure human fl...

What repealing the ‘endangerment finding’ means for pub...

The EPA has scrapped a rule stating that climate change harms human health. Here...

‘Inside-out’ planetary system perplexes astronomers

Four worlds around a small, dim star are challenging theories of planet formation

EPA set to scrap the ‘endangerment finding’ that climat...

The Trump administration is expected to rescind the 2009 “endangerment finding,”...

The physics of ‘Penisgate’ and how ski jumpers fly

A scandal involving allegedly enlarged ski suits ahead of this year’s Winter Oly...

Katharine Burr Blodgett’s brilliance had to fit into th...

From Schenectady, N.Y., to the University of Cambridge, Katharine Burr Blodgett’...

New research reveals how the brain separates speech int...

Speech blurs together unless you know the language; scientists found the brain s...

How do deep-sea fish see in dark water? This new study ...

Three species of Red Sea fish appear to rely on special “hybrid” retina cells to...

The largest-ever satellite of its kind just unfurled it...

BlueBird 6 features the biggest commercial communications array antenna ever dep...

What does it take to eat like an Olympian?

There’s more to Winter Olympians’ diets than calories—but for some, there are al...

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