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A Shocking Love Story! Struck by Lightning, Saved by Love
Blueberries, Belly Bugs & Your Brain: Can These Tiny Fruits Boost Your Mood?
Your Breathing Might Affect Your Reaction Time
Can Reading Fiction Make You More Forgiving?
Can Parenting a Toddler Shape Their Brain for Years?
A Real-Life Parent Trap! Long-Lost Sisters Meet on Opposing Softball Teams
Could Eggshell-Inspired Armor Protect Spacecraft from Space Junk?
Owl Be Seeing You! Strangers Team Up to Save an Injured Owl
How Little Sleep Is Too Little? Your Body May Have Its Own Sleep Alarm Clock
Age Intelligence: Why Grandma Might Still Beat The Chatbot
LED Lights: Are We Missing A Little Sunshine?
Wood That Bends The Rules
Sharks Can Hear You From Nearly 250 Feet Away!
Christian Bale’s Foster-Care Village Is Finally Open!
The Galápagos Turtles That Refused To Leave Home
Could Your Breath Spot Lung Cancer?
Is The Universe Infinite? It Gets Weird Fast!
Five Days of Warning: The New Tool That Could Spot a Hurricane About to Explode
NASA’s Cosmic Camera Opens Its Eyes
Butterflies Behind Bars: Wisconsin’s Monarch Mission Takes Flight
MIT’s Tiny Flying Robot Is Learning To Move Like A Real Insect
59 Dogs, One Retirement Home
Code Blue For Robots — Japan’s Humanoid Ambulance
Pregnancy Brain Is Real — And Scientists May Have Found the Reason
Can Smelling Chocolate Boost Your Workout?
Metal Foam Could Make Cars Safer — Without Adding Weight
The Mathematical Trick That Can Outsmart Wordle
Kids’ Brains: Distracted on Purpose?
The Picasso That Hid in Plain Sight for Eight Years
The Cicadas That Time Forgot
The Lucky Seven: Myrtle Beach’s Penguin Baby Boom
Coral Comeback: Can“Good Bacteria” Help Save Reefs From The Heat?
Mindfulness, Blood Pressure & The 8-Week Heart Check
Are You Born This Way? Your DNA Has Something To Say About Your Personality
Gotta Trade ’Em All: The Pokémon Card Trade That Sparked a Community Rescue Mission
Can Wi-Fi Recognize You? The Invisible Fingerprint in Your Router
Honey Bees Could Be Tiny Environmental Warning Systems
117 Years Young: Ethel Caterham’s Surprisingly Simple Secret to a Long Life
NASA’s New Cosmic Super-Scanner Is Ready to Launch
Can Eating Less Help Us Age Better?
Are You an iPhone Brain or an Android Brain?
The Ghostly River of Stars That Could Reveal Dark Matter
Dolphins Are Listening to Their Dinner
They Literally Struck Gold! A Jackhammer, a Sewer Pipe, and a $10 Million Mystery
Tomato Golden Hour
Two Planes. One Flight Number. One VERY Alert Air Traffic Controller.
Starlink Gets a Science Upgrade
The Creek That Supercharged Young Salmon
The Space Vest That Could Protect Astronauts From Solar Storms
The Manatee Rescue That Took a Village
Superintelligence for Everyone? Zuckerberg’s Big AI Bet
Full-Fat Dairy Strikes Back
The Booze Battle Just Got More Complicated
The Secret Traffic Cops of the Forest? Meet the Pumas
Mars Just Revealed One of Its Strangest Landscapes Yet
Scratched? No Problem! The Self-Healing Contact Lenses of the Future
Your Brain Has Two Habit Switches—And Scientists Just Found Them
The Cat Who's 31 Years Old—and May Be the World's Oldest
Webb Unlocks the Hidden Heart of a Galaxy
How One Dad's Library Trips Sparked a Movement Called "Library Dads"
Your Brain Is Secretly Directing Movies Every Night
Your Credit Card Machine May Soon Catch Criminals All by Itself
One Tiny Puffling, One Giant Reason for Hope
Bone Detectives: The Underwater Caves Helping Solve Ancient Mysteries
Coffee, Caffeine & Your Heart: Scientists Just Brewed Up Some Good News
Three Kids Trapped Under a Capsized Boat...Until an Off-Duty Firefighter Dove In
Now You See It… Now You Almost Don't: The Phantom Twist Drone
Winter Mode: Scientists Discover the Hidden Genetic Switch That Reprograms Animals for Winter
The Ghost Stars Next Door: Hubble Finds Four Hidden Stellar Corpses
The Personality Secret of People Who Live to 100
From Junk Drawer to Data Center: Google’s Brilliant Plan for Old Smartphones
The School Bus That Can Power Your Neighborhood
Catnip vs. Mosquitoes: The Plant That Could Replace DEET?
Did AI Just Reopen the Hunt for Dark Matter? A Milky Way Mystery Takes a Surprising Turn
The One-Plant Invasion: How a Single Seed Can Conquer an Ecosystem
One Woman. One Boat. Forty-Three Days. One Incredible Pacific Record.
AI Can Spot Cyber Threats... But Should It Be Making Security Decisions?
July's Biggest Sky Show: The Buck Moon, Two Meteor Showers, and Nature's Own Fireworks
Why Your Dominant Hand Isn't Actually Better—It's Just Had More Practice
Bugging the Numbers: Scientists Say We've Barely Met Earth's Insects
The Internet Can Now "Hear" Silent Whales
Check-In? Check. Bellhop? Bot. The World's First Fully Robot-Staffed Hotel
The Surprising Truth About Getting Older: What If Your Best Years Aren't Behind You?
When a Tiny Bird Stops a Big Build: The Killdeer That Hit the Pause Button on Construction
Walk This Way to Better Sleep
The Dutch Invention Stopping Tons of L.A. Trash Before It Reaches the Pacific
Building Silicon Skyscrapers: The 3D Chip Breakthrough That Could Keep Moore’s Law Alive
The Great Coffee Mystery: Why Your Coffee Doesn’t Taste Like Caffeine
Wasp Wars: When the Queen Vanishes, Chaos Takes Over
Why Bad Sleep Might Be Aging You Overnight
Forget Robot Vacuums—The Future Might Be Robot Pets
When Mosquitoes Start Liking Bug Spray: The Strange New DEET Discovery
The Real Pirates of the Caribbean Just Surfaced From the Deep
Moon Base, Moon Buggies & Flying Robots: NASA’s Giant Lunar Neighborhood Is Starting to Take Shape
The Bee-Nath the Cemetery: New York's Secret City of 5.5 Million Underground Pollinators
Robots Are Learning to Say “Excuse Me”
The Great Calorie Plot Twist: Why Your Friend Might Get More Energy From the Same Sandwich
Why Giggles Are Basically Brain Push-Ups
Copper Chaos: The Tiny 3D-Printed Spikes That Could Save AI From Melting the Planet
The Volcano That Cleaned Up After Itself