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Spoonerisms are among the most well-known speech errors, and for linguists and psychologists they offer a glimpse into how our brains produce speech | Continue reading
The nation’s first statewide moratorium on new hyperscale facilities gives officials up to one year to work out how to measure their environmental effects amid the AI building boom | Continue reading
Wildfire smoke may be as much as 10 times more dangerous than other forms of air pollution, research suggests | Continue reading
New, never-before-seen images provide a glimpse into the secretive lives of a clouded leopard species found in the dense rainforests of Borneo and Sumatra | Continue reading
Duration, location, aviation: What makes the best possible view of a total solar eclipse? | Continue reading
More sunlight in the evenings doesn’t always equate to better health | Continue reading
These findings challenge a long-held belief about weapons found in female burial sites | Continue reading
U.S. officials have traced an explosive diarrhea-causing parasite outbreak in five states to shredded lettuce served at the popular fast-food chain | Continue reading
SpaceX’s first attempt to launch its Starship megarocket on its thirteenth flight test ended before it could properly begin, aborting just before liftoff | Continue reading
The planet LHS 1140 b lies in its star’s habitable zone, which already made it a prime candidate as a possible host for life | Continue reading
Shaving under a minute off our daily commutes costs Americans $22 million daily | Continue reading
A controversial new ruling from the Federal Communications Commission leaves no one responsible for regulating light pollution and other ill effects from skyrocketing numbers of satellites | Continue reading
Most adults have levels of a dangerous type of cholesterol that are above 100, but this new drug can reduce levels to around 50 | Continue reading
SpaceX is launching the latest version of its Starship megarocket for a test flight that—if all goes to plan—should look a lot like the last one | Continue reading
The new species, Colobus congoensis, may already be endangered | Continue reading
Case numbers of this parasite-caused illness have exploded in the last week. An expert explains how to try and stay safe | Continue reading
A new breakthrough pushes the limits of randomness, bringing a decades-old mathematical mystery closer to resolution | Continue reading
The White House nominated Erica Schwartz, a former deputy surgeon general, to head the nation’s top public health agency | Continue reading
Indonesia is building a new capital city in the heart of Borneo to replace sinking Jakarta. As construction transforms one of the world's most biodiverse rainforests, scientists and their indigenous collaborators are racing to record the sounds of the forest—and preserve generati … | Continue reading
Equipping spacecraft with X-ray machines could boost safety for long-duration spaceflights—like a crewed mission to Mars | Continue reading
Beta Pictoris d is more than twice the size of Jupiter, but it is a baby compared to its humongous neighbors | Continue reading
Skygazers are in for a treat in August, as one of the most spectacular meteor showers coincides with a total solar eclipse | Continue reading
Solar eclipses are a rare and brief opportunity for scientists to gather data on everything from the physics of the sun to air pressure in the upper atmosphere | Continue reading
Several children who had aggressive recurrent brain tumors remained disease-free years after this treatment, according to an early-stage trial | Continue reading
Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any | Continue reading
Smoke from northern Minnesota wildfires may drift over the Great Lakes and Northeast this week, bringing hazardous levels of air pollution to major cities | Continue reading
This massive dinosaur skeleton sold for more than $50.1 million on Tuesday | Continue reading
The SpudCell certainly resembles a living cell, but a key structure inside the cell falls short of the real thing | Continue reading
What’s the secret to prompting an AI to solve math problems that have left humans stumped? Tell it to believe in itself | Continue reading
Corn has taken the heat for recent Midwest summer humidity—unjustly, according to corn experts | Continue reading
The signature of Sak Tahn Waax, or “White-Chested Fox,” was found inscribed in a 1,000-year-old chamber beneath present-day Guatemala | Continue reading
Record-breaking heat waves are beginning to blur together—here’s why and what’s making them so unbearable | Continue reading
Record-breaking heat waves are beginning to blur together—here’s why and what’s making them so unbearable | Continue reading
Hundreds of thousands of scientists, including Nobel laureates, warn that changes to the way federal grants are approved would greatly damage American science | Continue reading
Erythrulose—a sugar found in raspberries—is also prevalent in a giant molecular cloud close to our galaxy’s core, scientists have discovered | Continue reading
A 23-year-old student overturned an ancient conjecture about one of math’s simplest operations | Continue reading
Bacteria send protein packages to dormant neighbors to endure antibiotic attack | Continue reading
Alpha-gal syndrome is increasing across the U.S., driven by lone star ticks | Continue reading
The sheer amount of insects that free-range cats consume might surprise you | Continue reading
An ancient sample shows calcite threading through the material’s cracks and pores, with possible lessons for making modern concrete last longer | Continue reading
Tennis players can return high-speed balls using a combination of reaction and predicting the future | Continue reading
The inaugural launch and first-stage booster recovery of China’s Long March 10B rocket intensifies the nation’s spaceflight rivalry with the U.S. | Continue reading
This climate system is tied to more powerful typhoons, as well as famine and wildfires | Continue reading
A proposed rule change could expose more Americans to higher doses of radiation from nuclear facilities | Continue reading
Efforts to revive the thylacine and woolly mammoth are forcing conservationists to face a long-overdue debate over what kind of natural world we want to build | Continue reading
Other planets have moons, too. Do they get eclipses like we do? | Continue reading
A strange class of comet could explain the enigmatic behavior of ‘Oumuamua, the first known interstellar object—and even shed light on how Earth became habitable | Continue reading