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Earth is shifting into a La Niña period, changing climate patterns all around the globe

A new AI-based analytical technique reveals that specific language phrasing in Reddit misinformation posts foretold people rejecting COVID vaccinations

How do astronomers find the darkest objects in the universe?

Cape Cod’s water is turning “pea-soup green”—and after decades of scientific detective work, we know why.

A former stretch of the Nile River, now buried beneath the Sahara Desert, may help scientists understand how Egyptians built the pyramids and adapted to a drying landscape

Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts

The U.S. government has a stockpile of H5N1 vaccines, and several companies could make millions more if needed. But scaling up the supply could take time

Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved

Sound recording could take a cue from arachnid acoustics

Years of careful planning helped safeguard against last weekend’s severe space weather, but we still don’t know how we’d cope with a monster event

Eurasian Jays use something similar to humans’ episodic memory to remember where they stored their food

We need to tell a new story about AI, and fiction has that power, humanities scholars say

Everything in the universe may be preordained, according to physics

Humans’ evolutionary remnants show us the kinds of animals we used to be

Activists who seek to revive this antiquated law share with Anthony Comstock, the Comstock Act’s namesake and progenitor, a similar view of women as subordinate to the decisions of men and God

Google scientists have modeled all 150 million connections of a fragment of the human brain at nanoscale resolution

Veteran spacefarer Don Pettit is set to launch this summer on a half-year mission to the International Space Station to perform novel science experiments, snap unique orbital photos, and much more

Heat seems to trigger a sweep of changes in immune system molecules, although researchers disagree on what they might mean

Sierra Space’s Dream Chaser is set to make its inaugural trip to orbit to deliver supplies to the International Space Station

New research into weed reveals how a lemon-scented terpene can ease anxiety without reducing the high.