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David Eisenman sought to better understand how to prevent school shootings and other targeted violence, until the Department of Homeland Security halted the research.
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A Hubble Space Telescope image of the barred spiral galaxy IC 486.
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Fast solar wind could spark geomagnetic storms tonight, pushing auroras into mid-latitudes.
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The four Artemis 2 astronauts (at right) inspect their Orion capsule “Integrity” in the well deck of the USS John P. Murtha on April 11, 2026, in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of California. Integri...
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A study finds that less than half of surveyed parents know the legal age, 21, to buy cigarettes, vapes, nicotine pouches and other tobacco products.
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The interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS, as seen by the Subaru Telescope on Dec. 13, 2025.
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What’s big, rare, and smells like literal death? If you guessed a corpse, you’re not wrong. The pungent flower in question is a tropical plant called titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum), a species of ...
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A rendering of what the Giant Magellan Telescope will look like when complete.
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Audi is having a big moment: two years ago, the German brand announced it would launch 20 brand-new or significantly new models. Twelve of those have already rolled out, with more coming soon. The aut...
The Atlantic
This article contains spoilers through the Season 2 finale of The Pitt. The first season of The Pitt presented an emergency room brought to the absolute limits of its capabilities, unfolding as 15 hou...
New York Times
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh gave transplant recipients certain immune cells from their organ donors. It didn’t always work.
New York Times
Extreme heat is extremely hard on your vehicle, but a few simple precautions can help a lot.
Randi Minetor has written nine books about people dying in national parks. Needless to say, she has a lot of thoughts about it. “A lot of people go to national parks to challenge themselves, to try th...
The Atlantic
Mehmet Emin Mengüarslan / Anadolu / GettyFiery streaks of handmade rockets light up the night sky over the village of Vrontados on the island of Chios, Greece, as two rival congregations engage in the...
Baltimore speaks before anyone at Under Armour gets to say a word. Driving along the seams of the Baltimore Peninsula, the city does what it does so well, giving off stubborn grit and industrial spraw...
The Atlantic
The Hungarian strongman Viktor Orbán, who lost his election in a landslide on Sunday after 16 years in power, presented himself as a defender of Western civilization. But at best, his lofty rhetoric w...
New York Times
The U.S. District Court building in Honolulu. Senior Judge Helen Gillmor dismissed the Justice Department’s case with prejudice, meaning it cannot be refiled.
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The Artemis II crew, from left, Reid Wiseman, Victor Glover, Christina Koch and Jeremy Hansen, during a news conference at the Johnson Space Center in Houston on Thursday.
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Earth sets on April 6, 2026, over the moon’s curved limb in this photo captured by the Artemis 2 crew during their journey around the far side of the moon.
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An illustration showing two black holes beginning to collide.
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An artistic reconstruction of the Anglo-Saxon double burial.
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The toilet on board Artemis 2's Orion capsule, named "Integrity."
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A screenshot from Crimson Desert showing a character flying in space.
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Scientists have found evidence suggesting the Colorado River pooled in a giant lake before eventually spilling out and carving the Grand Canyon.
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Blue Origin conducts a static fire test with its New Glenn rocket on April 16, 2026.
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NPR's Short Wave team talks about the surprising benefits of small talk, more humane ways to kill lobsters, and an ancient flood that may have helped create the Grand Canyon.
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Photographers saw the green fireball (right) streak over Lindisfarne Castle in the UK while out shooting the Milky Way at night.
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A neglected force produced by neutrinos and other particles helps atomic physics measurements align with predictions of the standard model.
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Updated at 6:58 p.m. ET on April 16, 2026The White House has reportedly urged Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to avoid talking about vaccines, but this morning he had no choi...
Hasan Piker has attracted millions of followers across multiple social-media platforms, making him one of the most popular left-wing streamers. He has been the subject of several flattering magazine p...
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The state of Connecticut is probably not the first place that comes to mind when you think of bears. However, the Nutmeg State is home to about 1,000 to 1,200 black bears (Ursus americanus) bears. The...
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A meteor streaks through the sky over Turkey.
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After a 10-year effort, physicists got a value for “Big G” that does not settle the debate over one of nature’s hardest numbers to nail down.
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The Large Magellanic Cloud is the origin of the most ancient and pristine star ever seen.
The Atlantic
I had the strangest dream. I dreamed that my shoes—my comfortable, unfashionable wool shoes—were pivoting to AI. “But you’re a shoe company,” I said. “Just go out of business! Keep your dignity!”My sh...
New York Times
Paleontologists and their team excavate an Ankylosaur, an armored dinosaur, at Camel’s Humps in the Gobi Desert in Mongolia in 2005.
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The strangler fig is a keystone species in the tropics, providing food and shelter, and a place to poop for 17 different mammal species.
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Artist's illustration of Astroscale's ISSA-J inspection mission in Earth orbit.
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The Coronal Hole in the sun that opened up this week.
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Titan is the largest of Saturn’s 292 known moons, by far. It’s also the only other cosmic body apart from Earth confirmed to host standing liquid similar to our oceans in our solar system. But don’t n...
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Researchers use DESI’s huge 3D map to study dark energy. Earth is at the center of this map, and every point is a galaxy.
Tomas Montoya has sold festival foods—funnel cakes, burgers, hot dogs—across the American Southwest for years. But lately, business has been rough. Costs are up, so he’s increased his prices. Employee...
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Beer is easy to drink and even easier to screw up when you try to make it at home. It literally feels like working in a lab. There are carboys, airlocks, hydrometers, wort chillers, mash temperatures,...
On the day I was laid off from the Kennedy Center, I felt a little like Dolley Madison saving the Stuart portrait of Washington before the British sacked the capital. I was the staffer in charge of th...
In the days after Donald Trump won his second term, I called a handful of Hungarian political analysts to ask what the American future might look like. My impulse was not an original one; the analysts...
On his son’s fourth birthday, Michael Prescott had his first heart attack. Prescott, who worked as a civil engineer designing bridges in Tennessee, was in his 30s, and until that day, he had appeared ...
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On paper, few physical jobs seem as ripe for AI takeover as that of the loyal service dog. These four-legged assistants undergo years of intensive (and expensive) training to help people with vision l...
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A three panel image divided by diagonal white lines. The left image shows a man looking through a telescope at the night sky, the middle and right show comets.
Earlier this year, when I walked into a renovated loft in downtown San Francisco, the couches and tables were littered with flyers advertising an “emotionally intelligent real-time AI coach.” They wer...
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Expandable space patrol, left to right: Maxim de Jong, Max Space co-founder and chief technology officer, Saleem Miyan, co-founder and CEO, and Aaron Kemmer, Max Space co-founder and chairman.
Anyone can pull an espresso shot. Pulling a good one, however, can be a lifelong pursuit. Every new bag of beans is a new problem to solve. You have to accommodate a different roast, a different densi...
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Not every mummy is treated equally. While the traditional image conjures a well-preserved, carefully wrapped ancient Egyptian body inside an elaborately decorated tomb, there are many more examples of...
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Intensifying wildfires across the continent are spewing air pollution, putting human health at risk, particularly Americans living with chronic illnesses
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A hacker used Anthropic's Claude Code and OpenAI's GPT-4.1 AI systems to steal hundreds of millions of records from the Mexican government.
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When it’s time to cook a lobster, the crustaceans are infamously boiled alive. While one can safely assume that such an end would be excruciating for a human, crustaceans’ capacity for feeling pain is...
The Trump administration doesn’t seem to have many rules, but one of them is that once the president picks a fight, his posse must show up to support him, no matter how ill-advised the conflict. And f...
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Researchers have finally measured the energy jets of the black hole Cygnus X-1 by mapping out how they wobble, or "dance," due to stellar winds from its partner star HDE 226868.
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An artist’s impression of space-time around a black hole. New theoretical research hints that three hidden dimensions of the cosmos could prevent black holes from ever truly disappearing.
One afternoon in the summer of 1846, Henry David Thoreau left his hut near Walden Pond and walked into town to pick up a shoe he was having mended. He was stopped by the local tax collector, who nudge...
I was somewhere around East Hollywood, at the onramp of the 101, when the buzz began to take hold. You know the buzz. That indefinable thing when people catch something from music. I’ve been chasing t...
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Their sensitive facial hair may be the harbor seals superpower for tracking fish, scientists are learning.(Image credit: Robin Heinrich/Marine Science Center)
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThe leader of a democracy overpowers many of the country’s institutions that could oppose him: the media, the universities, ...
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A clinical trial participant receiving an infusion of an anti-amyloid Alzheimer’s drug in New York last year.
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By the end of his career, William Shakespeare was a bona fide celebrity boasting multiple homes across England. Historical documents indicate the legendary playwright spent the majority of his later y...
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It’s power tool season. The sound of DIY projects getting done ring through the spring air. But, before you can get to work, you need the right power tool kit. The Home Depot’s Spring Black Friday sal...
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An illustration of a cosmic ‘distance ladder’ used to calculate the expansion rate of the universe. New research confirms, with the most thorough dataset ever, that something still doesn’t add up in o...
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Researchers found that natural selection has acted on genes for red hair and male-pattern baldness.
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At-home breath tests could reveal insights about gut health, though their ability to assess food intolerances is not yet clear.
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The Artemis II mission took thousands of photographs of the moon during its flyby.
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U.K. scientists are calling for a ban on boiling lobsters alive after another study has found that the crustaceans feel pain.
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UniX AI's humanoid Panther robot cooks breakfast in the kitchen.
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New research could narrow down the search for rare earth deposits. Pictured here is a rare earth minerals mine inside Mojave National Preserve.
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A researcher holds up the fossilized egg in the control room of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility in France, just before its scan.
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A technician drilling into a piece of a skull to obtain powder from which DNA could be extracted in David Reich’s lab at Harvard University.
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It’s that time of year again! Internet-famous eagle couple Jackie and Shadow have two new chicks in need of names. For a small donation, you can submit your name suggestion on the Friends of Big Bear ...
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In a study, people with gene variants in two genes lost slightly more weight on GLP-1 drugs, but threw up more on Zepbound.
New York Times
Your pet is (probably) not a genius, and that’s OK.
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The painstaking process of formalization to verify proofs is starting to surge thanks to AI. That could radically change the way people do math.
Smithsonian
From preserved plants to T. rex, the material found in these Late Cretaceous rocks has resulted in countless breakthroughs for paleontologists