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A generation of scientific talent is at the brink of being lost to overseas competitors by the Trump administration’s dismantling of the National Science Foundation (NSF),…

Bang! Whiz! Pop! The universe is a happening place—full of exploding stars, erupting black holes, zipping asteroids, and much more. And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful…

AI-engineered paint could reduce the sweltering urban heat island effect in cities and cut air-conditioning bills, scientists have claimed, as machine learning accelerates the creation of…

For Dolphins, Echolocation May Be More Like ‘Touching’ Than ‘Seeing’Dolphins seem to “feel” their way across the sea with narrow, sweeping beams of sonarBy Cody Cottier…

Air pollution has been linked to a swathe of lung cancer-driving DNA mutations, in a study of people diagnosed with the disease despite never having smoked…

On May 14, 2021, China’s Tianwen-1 lander plummeted from space to streak through the skies above Mars’s vast plain of Utopia Planitia, with an aeroshell protecting…

A man whose bones were shaped by a lifetime of hard labour more than 4,500 years ago has become the first ancient Egyptian to have his…

To Save Patients from Extreme Heat, a Hospital Is Turning to AIAI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about…

The importance of 31 December is well documented, but no one ever talks about the angst of 22 July. Or 23, or 25, depending on where…

Liverpool John Moores University. NatureTests on the skull could give new insights into ancient historyA DNA bone test on a man who lived 4,500 years ago…