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Microsoft’s announcement of a new quantum computing breakthrough with its Majorana 2 chip continues a trend of bold claims followed by scant evidence

The Ocean Observatories Initiative has been collecting data on physical, chemical, geological and biological conditions in the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans for the past decade

A group of researchers have proposed rules to prevent artificial intelligence from overpowering humans in math

More than 5,300 years after Ötzi’s death, researchers identified yeasts in his gut microbiome that continue to be active—and they used it to make bread

Deep surveys of the sky have turned up galaxies vastly larger than our own. Are there even bigger ones yet to be seen?

By encoding mathematical statements into numbers, mathematician Kurt Gödel used ordinary arithmetic to check whether a statement can be proved

China is pulling ahead of the rest of the world in sinking data centers that power AI into the ocean as an alternate way to keep them cool

Solve the grid in our daily expert Sudoku puzzle

A deadly Ebola outbreak is spreading fast—and U.S. cuts to foreign aid are making it worse

New-generation GLP-1 drugs, such as retatrutide, are achieving higher rates of weight loss. How much weight is too much and too fast to lose?

This prototype could help the world prepare for AI malware threats, according to the researchers who made it

Hurricane season is shaped by the ingredients needed to produce a tropical cyclone, and this year the Atlantic may be relatively quiet

Some neuroscientists argue that the roots of experience lie deep inside the brain. If they’re right, the consciousness club will get a lot bigger

Could a predecessor to the phonograph have appeared a century earlier?

A new analysis of red lines inside a cave in Wales suggests they were made deliberately by ancient humans some 17,000 years ago

From slow elevators to perfectly split pizza, math quietly explains the quirks of everyday life

The transplanted pig organs functioned for 36 hours before showing signs of rejection

This order asks artificial intelligence companies to give the U.S. government up to 30 days to assess frontier models before they are released

These sounds could be used to track the health of populations of the endangered Atlantic sturgeon

Where did stars, and light itself, come from? Is there a hidden sector of particles and forces called “dark energy” affecting the cosmos?

China apparently didn’t issue any airspace or maritime notices ahead of the maiden launch of this rocket on Monday

The Trump administration has fast-tracked research into psychedelics, and experts say it is likely a matter of time before the drugs are used to treat minors

Some clinics are touting pressurized oxygen chambers as a treatment for long COVID, but the evidence is mixed

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Agriculture is at risk of a crisis because of this Middle East conflict. The reason why has to do with how fertilizer is made

Andrew Scott plays World War II meteorologist James Stagg in a new film Pressure, which explores the crucial role weather forecasting played in D-Day

It's not clear why the National Science Foundation may be limiting funding to certain U.S. universities

Messier 88 is an active galaxy with a central supermassive black hole that is gobbling up gas and dust

The latest flight of the New Glenn rocket was meant to prepare Blue Origin for a series of NASA-funded lunar voyages. Instead it ended before it began

‘Penguin’ decays from CERN’s latest Large Hadron Collider experiment hint at weird new physics

These proposed Office of Management and Budget regulations would render the federal research grant review process opaque

Debate still swirls around the nature of “little red dots,” black holes glimpsed in the early universe by the James Webb Space Telescope. A controversial new weigh-in may settle the matter

The new open-source atlas, generated by an AI tool called ESMFold2, vastly increases the known protein universe

Weapons-grade plutonium can fuel nuclear reactors known as mixed oxide reactors, but none of these exist in the U.S.

At an event at NASA Headquarters, space agency officials unveiled the first rovers and landers headed to the future site of its planned lunar south pole outpost

Our galaxy and its nearest large companion, Andromeda, may be headed for a collision on a cosmic scale. What happens then?