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How “heart-centered” archeology is helping to find the Indigenous children who never came home from residential schools

An environmental engineer provides a glimpse of the magnitude of the challenge to remove PFAS from water supplies and ways you can reduce these “forever chemicals” in your own drinking water

Research on personality types in the middle of the extroversion-introversion scale is limited—yet the majority of people fall into this category

A woman with life-threatening heart and kidney disease became the second person ever to receive a genetically modified pig kidney and the first person to receive a heart pump and a transplanted organ together

Several marsupial species, including sugar gliders, independently evolved a way to make membranes that allow them to glide through the air

Long confined to regions with volcanic activity, geothermal promises to become a much more versatile energy source thanks to new technologies

Dodgy studies and fantastic claims have long powered a belief in devious Russian brain weapons, from mind control to microwave devices   

The molecule that gives cannabis its citrusy smell can make THC less anxiety-inducing

After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.

The incentives in science don’t always encourage openness—but being wrong might just be the key to getting it right.

California has hit record-breaking milestones in renewable electricity generation, showing that wind, water and solar are ready to cover our electricity needs

Ancestors of so-called soft corals may have developed bioluminescence in the earliest days of deep-ocean living

People in the U.S. will be able to see where extreme heat is a threat to health with a new interactive tool created by the National Weather Service and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett (1942–2024)

When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxtomation”

By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat guano

NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back into healthy communication

The Biden administration is marking Earth Week with announcements of solar power funding for lower-income communities, an expansion of the Climate Corps and Clean Air Act rules

New research shows that looking at memorable images can warp our perception of time

The influential AI design that makes chatbots tick now runs on quantum computers