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Satellites can now track the deep ocean currents around Antarctica that could accelerate climate change.
Are new approaches to recreating long-lost animals simply creating imitations?
Two studies show major progress in the field of photonic microchips.
Lesson plans incorporating shark fossil teeth help prepare kids to live and work in an AI world.
The animals are an imitation, but the technology used to create them could have wide-ranging applications.
The Trump administration’s job cuts and advisory board changes at the agency won’t change those rules, as a former EPA science adviser explains.
Physics and poetry both distil complexity into clarity. Learn how poetic structure can shape and express scientific ideas.
From HIV treatments to school desegregation, research into topics now considered DEIA have benefited Americans throughout history.
Science uses careful, organized observations and tests to construct theories that are recorded, passed on to others and built on.
South Africa’s mathematics achievement trends are unusual. This could point to possible ways to improve results.
The “woolly mice” have the thick, shaggy hair of mammoths, along with a fat metabolism gene.
Universities and research are the target of unprecedented attacks in the US, threatening academic freedom. Scientists have created the “Stand up for Science” movement.
Puffy to wispy, barely there or dark and menacing, clouds come in many shapes and sizes. Each tells a story about what’s going on in the atmosphere.
If humans are ‘bundles of habits,’ can we take control of them?
Planners need more reliable projections of future sea-level rise to protect communities and ecosystems. A new method helps produce them.
At the very beginning of its history, Earth was dry. How did it become a blue planet? A new theory could provide an answer.
The jury’s out on whether the US is still at the top of global science. Proposed cuts to major agencies could mean completely ceding that title.
Having a word “on the tip of the tongue” has happened to all of us. Behind this everyday phenomenon lie complex brain mechanisms.
A big bet on open-source technology has enabled China to rapidly scale its AI innovation while Silicon Valley remains limited by corporate structures.
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