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

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

3 months ago

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

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

3 months ago

Reading the Moon Like a Book — For the First Time

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

3 months ago

How Many Elementary Particles Are There, Really?

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

4 months ago

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

Enhanced cryo–electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is being extended with a laser-based contrast enhancement technique that may significantly improve the visibility of…

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

Do animals perceive time differently from humans?

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

4 months ago

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

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

4 months ago

The Robots Have Clocked In

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

4 months ago

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

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

5 months ago