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Close stellar encounters could change the structure of our planetary system, potentially dooming Earth or other worlds to ...

A rapidly warming Arctic is driving long-lasting summer extremes, such as this month’s sweltering temperatures, new research ...

The finished dugout canoe before departure, with leaf wave guards at the bow ( right) and stern ( left ). Vertical sticks at ...

Surprising new work bucks 50 years of assumptions about the trade-offs between computation space and time ...

A classic puzzle conundrum goes like this: You’re in a room with two ropes and a box of matches. Each rope takes exactly an ...

Scientists warn against reading too much into a small experiment about ChatGPT and brain activity that is receiving a lot of ...

The collapse of the world’s second-largest ice sheet would drown cities worldwide. Is that ice more vulnerable than we know?

Thimerosal, which contains an organic compound of mercury, has mostly been phased out as a preservative for vaccines. Here’s ...