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In his State of the Union Speech, President Trump pushed fossil fuel extraction, a plan for developing critical minerals and an Alaska natural gas pipeline

New simulations suggest that habitable worlds could have begun forming only 200 million years after the big bang

The CDC has sequenced bird flu viruses from people in Nevada and Wyoming, and the Trump Administration has released a strategy for reducing egg prices

Ants’ tactics to avoid traffic jams could be applied to future self-driving cars

Schrödinger’s cat is scratching its head over the “topological” qubit that is causing a buzz in quantum computing. We should be, too

Public health experts discuss lessons learned from the U.S. response to the COVID pandemic, on topics ranging from school closures to trust in science

Many people are concerned about microplastics reaching our brain—but few realize how this connects with petroleum production and the climate crisis

Court documents indicate the administration has begun a campaign to block states from receiving funds for projects that would reduce climate-related damage

On its quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse

AI’s integration into everything—untangling traffic snarls, dictating drug prescriptions, rewriting the rules of scientific discovery—is accelerating quickly

Neuroscience research claiming to question the existence of free will may have been misinterpreted

Ozempic and similar GLP-1 weight-loss medications are designed to be a lifelong treatment. But a new study finds the majority of people who use these drugs quit after just two years

Mouse and human studies suggest a connection between a gut microbe and the appetite-regulating hormone GLP-1

Stuart Levenbach alarmed scientists years ago when he attempted to meddle with a congressionally mandated climate report

When a fan of a cult anime series wanted to watch its episodes in every possible order, they asked a question that had perplexed combinatorial mathematicians for years

Popular culture paints going “no contact” as the best way to deal with hard family relationships. But it’s not always the right choice

In this news roundup, we cover outbreak updates, microbes in space and a brain turned to glass.