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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

Human’s 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.

Orcas have once again attacked and sunk a boat near the Strait of Gibraltar, a behavior that has scientists stumped

From Gaza to India to the Philippines, climate change exacerbated often record-breaking extreme heat over the past month

Floods, wildfires, droughts and earthquakes forced more than 26 million people to leave their homes in 2023

The same massive sunspot cluster that gave Earth multiple nights of stunning aurora displays has now produced the largest flare of the current solar cycle

Ancient tree rings show that the summer of 2023 was the hottest in the past 2,000 years because of human-caused climate change