How Trump’s National Weather Service Cuts Could Cost Lives
Weather experts warn that staff cuts at the National Weather Service that have been made by the Trump administration are a danger to public safety as tornadoes, hurricanes and heat loom this spring and summer
What Are AI Chatbot Companions Doing to Our Mental Health?
Physicists Build a ‘Black Hole Bomb’ in the Laboratory
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Disasters Displaced a Record 46 Million People Last Year
A Tick-Borne Disease That Acts like Malaria Is Becoming More Common
Ways To Cope When Your Child Gets A Life-Altering Diagnosis
U.K. Funds Geoengineering Experiments as Global Controversy Grows
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Inside the AI Competition That Decoded an Ancient Herculaneum Scroll
Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works
God Chatbots Offer Spiritual Insights on Demand. What Could Go Wrong?
Will Machines Ever Become Conscious?
Scientists Are Putting ChatGPT Brains Inside Robot Bodies. What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
The Only Particle Collider in the U.S. Will Be Replaced with an Upgrade
Fitness Doesn’t Have to Be about Denial and Shame
Jupiter’s Cyclones, Amazon’s Satellites and T. rex Collagen
These Fungi Are Facing Extinction—Here’s Why That Matters
Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’
Inuit languages really do have many words for snow, linguists found—and other languages have conceptual specialties, too, potentially revealing what a culture values
NASA Spent Billions to Bring Rocks Back from Mars. Trump Wants to Leave Them There
After billions of dollars in spending and decades of planning, NASA may be forced to abandon precious samples of air, rock and soil on the Martian surface. Experts are furious
What Is a Galaxy?
Galaxies come in many shapes and sizes, and trying to define them is difficult
Physicists Turn Lead into Gold—For a Fraction of a Second
Scientists at Europe’s famous particle collider briefly created gold ions from lead in a modern twist on the alchemical goal
Zero Is Foundational to Modern Mathematics. But It Was Rejected for Centuries
Conceptual problems, ideology clashes and xenophobia prevented the concept of zero from catching on for a long time. Today all mathematics is based on it
Knitting’s Complex Shapes Explained in New Physics Model
A new mathematical model helps to advance the centuries-old art of knitting
