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250 million years from now, the emergence of a new supercontinent could render most of Earth’s surface uninhabitable for mammals

Washington State’s Puget Sound could face previously unknown earthquake risks, according to a new study that has pinned down the date of an ancient […]

In theory, physicists knew that antimatter should behave just like matter under gravity’s pull. But until now, no one had ever seen it happen

Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the paths they took

How does bourbon, “America’s spirit,” get its distinctive taste and color?

This enormous structure could help explain processes close to the dawn of time—or it could be a random cosmic fluke

In 2014, a blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive event: a gamma-ray burst. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she […]

The Y chromosome was once used to label people as criminal. A new complete Y chromosome sequence just might combat this dangerous myth

This is why we misinterpret life’s weird and wonderful random events

Newly purple streetlights might seem innocuous, but they could affect driver and pedestrian safety

The evolution of a chemical defense gland allowed the most diverse group of beetles to repel predators and go on to conquer wholly new environments

Here’s why the CDC is so concerned about deadly flesh-eating bacteria and ways to avoid being infected

Human scent signatures could one day be collected at places like crime scenes and COVID testing sites 

Governments must “separate climate from geopolitics” and work together to triple renewables and deeply cut planet-warming emissions, says International […]

Astronomers have a new term to describe the pain associated with the loss of access to dark skies: noctalgia

Lessons from past eras when Earth was a hothouse or a snowball tell us whether we are doomed by climate change or still have time to prevent that fate

We need to figure out if there is a constitutional right to compute

Phonics may be a popular way to teach reading, but it fails too many children

A Q&A with Hannah Larson, a recipient of the 2024 Maryam Mirzakhani New Frontiers Prize

Wind turbines threaten several bat species, but the Biden administration is funding research to reduce casualties

Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people […]

Physicists and philosophers recently met to debate a theory of consciousness called panpsychism

Despite stereotypes, many autistic people yearn for meaningful relationships, but they are daunted by neurotypicals’ assumptions about them

Physicist John Cardy and his colleague just won the 2024 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics. We spoke with Cardy about conformal field theory, 2D black […]

The RSV vaccine is the latest in a series of immunizations that could protect pregnant people and their babies from severe disease and death