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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

Botanist Mason Heberling challenges how we think about invasive species and our role in their spread.

Clicklike noises made by a small species of shark represent the first instance of a shark actively producing sound

The bankruptcy of 23andMe highlights a lack of protections for genetic privacy in the U.S.

Supersymmetry, long considered the golden child of theoretical physics, has officially lost its luster at the world’s reigning particle accelerator

MRI scans show that the brains of infants and toddlers can encode memories, even if we don’t remember them as adults

Have you seen something inexplicable in the sky? Jon Kosloski, director of the U.S. Department of Defense’s All-Domain Anomaly Resolution Office, wants to hear from you

Too few people get diagnosed and treated for postpartum depression. But a blood test could change that

Measles is not a disease to take lightly—but it is also very preventable with vaccines

Uncorrected errors in science and the unconscionable reluctance to correct them erodes trust in science, throws away taxpayer money, harms the public’s health and can kill innocent people

Researchers have found an environmentally safer way to extract the lithium 6 needed to create fuel for nuclear fusion reactors. The new approach doesn’t require toxic mercury, as conventional methods do