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Stars often whip their planets with solar winds and radiation, pull them ever closer with gravity and sear them with heat.

We typically imagine echolocation as “seeing” with sound—experiencing auditory signals as a world of images like the ones our ...

AI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about dangerous heat waves ...

China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European efforts ...

GLP-1 drugs currently being tested in China target complications associated with obesity such as heart disease, fatty liver ...

And astronomers have a brand-new, superpowerful eye with which to see the changing cosmos: the Vera C. Rubin Observatory in ...

Links to the U.S.’s most comprehensive climate reports—the National Climate Assessments—disappeared from the Internet on ...

To achieve its ambitious plans for missions to the moon and beyond, Russia needs other spacefaring nations as partners. But ...

Researchers are misusing ChatGPT and other artificial intelligence chatbots to produce scientific literature. At least, that’s a new fear that some scientists have raised, citing a stark rise in ...

In 2008 scientists reported that rocks in Canada were the world’s oldest. New data appear to confirm this contested claim ...

Audible sound can affect gene activity in mouse cells, boosting the attachment of muscle precursors to surrounding tissue and ...