
This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism
Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism
This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism
Scientists have captured the first videos of wild roundworms forming living, wriggling towers that behave as one big superorganism
Human Intelligence Created the Climate Crisis—But It’s Also the Solution
AI Found a ‘Magic Potion’ That Can Bring Dead Batteries Back to Life
Engineered Viruses Make Neurons Glow and Treat Brain Disease
The Trump-Musk Fight Could Have Huge Consequences for U.S. Space Programs
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A Japanese Spacecraft Has Crash-Landed on the Moon—Again
At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI
Tree Planting Efforts Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
Can Trump’s NASA Afford to Send Humans to Mars?
The Quantum Bubble That Could Destroy the Universe
DNA Studies Uncover Unexpected Evolutionary Changes in Modern Humans
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The Secret to the Strongest Force in the Universe
Why Aren’t We Made of Antimatter?
Megalodon Diets, Teeth Sensitivity and a Bunch of Vaccine News
This Male Fertility Test Makes Assessing Sperm Health a More Accurate At-Home Affair
Building an LLM for Dolphin Chatter
At Secret Math Meeting, Researchers Struggle to Outsmart AI
The world's leading mathematicians were stunned by how adept artificial intelligence is at doing their jobs
AI Found a ‘Magic Potion’ That Can Bring Dead Batteries Back to Life
Electric vehicles leave behind mountains of dead lithium-ion batteries. A new “injection” brings them back to life
Are We Ready for Death in Space?
NASA has quietly taken steps to prepare for a death in space. We need to ask how nations will deal with this inevitability now, as more people start traveling off the planet
Our World Is Getting More Complicated. Here’s the 19th-Century Math That Proves It
Nothing in the cosmos is in equilibrium, which means entropy is on the rise
Tree Planting Efforts Could Actually Worsen Climate Change
With wildfires turning forests into “massive carbon emitters,” planting trees in some places could inadvertently increase carbon emissions, a new report says
Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Fruit-Slicing Dilemma
A 40-year-old conjecture on shapes’ cross sections is finally proven