Science

Talking to a chatbot may weaken someone’s belief in con...

AI might help lift conspiracy theorists out of the rabbit hole, but some researc...

How much is climate change to blame for extreme weather?

Scientists can estimate how much more likely or severe some past natural disaste...

Ancient DNA unveils a previously unknown line of Neande...

DNA from a partial skeleton found in France indicates that European Neandertals ...

California droughts may help valley fever spread

Droughts temporarily dampen the number of valley fever cases across the state, b...

A quantum computer corrected its own errors, improving ...

The corrected calculation had an error rate about a tenth of one done without qu...

AI generates harsher punishments for people who use Bla...

ChatGPT and similar AI sort those who use African American English dialect into ...

How earthquakes build beefy gold nuggets

The strain imparted by an earthquake can generate voltages in quartz veins that ...

The first face transplant to include an eye shows no re...

A man who received a partial face transplant that included an eye can’t see out ...

Readers discuss black holes’ trippy effects on time, ba...

Time to eat Astronomers watched in real time as the supermassive black hole at t...

When pain really is in your head

Editor in chief Nancy Shute discusses the complexity of chronic pain, the spread...

50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed

Worker exposure to vinyl chloride became tightly regulated after the chemical wa...

Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat...

A few hours in high temps reduced the ability of antennae to detect flower scent...

A next-gen pain drug shows promise, but chronic suffere...

A new painkiller nearing approval called suzetrigine may prove to be an opioid a...

A new drug shows promise for hot flashes due to menopause

Two clinical trials found that the nonhormonal drug elinzanetant eased hot flash...

In an epic cosmology clash, rival scientists begin to f...

Different measurements of the cosmic expansion rate disagree. The James Webb tel...

Fiddler crabs are migrating north to cooler waters

The crabs are climate migrants and could be a harbinger of changes to come as mo...

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