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We’re taking you inside MIT.nano, a clean laboratory facility that is critical to nanoscale research, from microelectronics to medical nanotechnology.

As fires burned in Los Angeles this year, newer toxin monitors found contaminants that aren’t measured by standard methods. Now scientists and officials are pushing for better detection

Fat is one of the most active, dynamic organs we have. Why can’t we learn to love it?

The threat from near-Earth asteroid 2024 YR4 may have subsided, but discoveries of other hazardous space rocks are set to soar as new observatories come online

Revelations that Trump's Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem plans to abolish or shrink the Federal Emergency Management Agency sent shock waves through state and local emergency responders

Andrea Evangelina Rodríguez Perozo started innovative health programs on her return from France in 1925, but her advocacy for sex workers and contraception soon plunged her into controversy

The European physics laboratory CERN is planning to build a mega collider by 2070. Critics say the plan could lead to ruin

A long-standing shape mystery has finally been solved

Left-leaning Americans at peaceful demonstrations are becoming more likely to believe that political violence will be necessary to save America

A new study finds that when young kids find loopholes, or sneaky work-arounds, for instructions, they must apply advanced social and language skills

Kitchen items—sponges, blenders, kettles—are abundant sources of microplastics that we all consume

The Office for Long COVID Research and Practice was instrumental in coordinating the U.S. government’s initiatives to treat, diagnose and prevent the mysterious postviral condition that affects millions of people today

One species of tropical tree seems not only to survive lightning strikes but also to thrive because of them

Some conservative lawmakers are quietly urging the president to restore research funding as cuts threaten academic institutions in their states

Scientists in China have transmitted encrypted images a record 12,900 kilometers, paving the way for quantum messaging anywhere on Earth

Masaki Kashiwara, this year’s Abel Prize winner, co-founded a new field of mathematics called algebraic analysis

Gender-affirming care attacked by right-wing groups is being reaffirmed by medical reviews and in the courtroom

“Qudits,” the multi-dimensional cousins of qubits, could make quantum computers more efficient and less prone to error

Impatience is an emotion we can all learn to tame

Desynchronizing a monkey’s brain with electricity caused a performance boost