El Niño Has Begun. It May Become the Strongest This Century

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After clearing a spring forecasting hurdle, scientists see growing odds of a powerful climate event that could disrupt weather worldwide…

New NIH Security Rules for Genomic Data Sets Are Slowing Research, Prompting Workarounds

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Data security experts say increased oversight is needed, but researchers are struggling to comply In the spring of 2025, Andrew…

Reading the Moon Like a Book — For the First Time

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It might seem remarkable that a question as basic as "what is the Moon made of, and where?" remains unanswered.

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

4 months ago

Every time this question comes up in particle physics, it quickly becomes less straightforward than it first appears. At first…

Laser-boosted microscopes could reveal new drug targets, sharpen views inside cells

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After years of opposition, Mexico’s president is reconsidering fracking

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Mexico’s government has assembled a group of scientists to assess whether hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, could be revived in the…

Do animals perceive time differently from humans?

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Science spoke with Ishan Singhal, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Sussex, whose team is developing a new framework—called…

Speedy, spiraling electrical waves may be key to brain’s information flow

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Like a stadium crowd performing a coordinated wave, neurons across the brain generate rhythmic electrical activity that sweeps through neural…

The Robots Have Clocked In

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For decades, the humanoid robot lived in one of two places: science fiction and research labs. That era is ending.

Students Went Looking for the Universe’s Most Elusive Particle — With a Detector They Built Themselves

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Two undergraduate students from the University of Hamburg, decided to build their own dark matter experiment.