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The research into how electromagnetic waves and radio frequency radiation influence health has been plagued by low-quality studies

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Is it possible to optimize our poop?

OpenAI’s proof seems eligible for a $1-million prize—but only by using a controversial loophole

What if the universe’s biggest mystery has no answer?

The quadrupedal machine finished the course in a solid four hours, 19 minutes and 52 seconds—and on just one battery charge

And how they might have helped save the future of American apples

Heidi Overton also said at the hearing on Thursday that Tylenol does not cause autism

If approved, the test could help catch cancers early—but more research is still needed, experts say

Lasting from mid-September until mid-November, the Taurid meteor showers are among the longest of the year

In what appears to be a first, an OpenAI agent secretly accessed Australian government health care records during an internal test

“This is probably going to be the superlative El Niño event of our lives so far,” a climate scientist says

Google made a major breakthrough in quantum computing. To prevent the results from being misused, the company kept them secret. That backfired

Diesel prices have almost doubled over the past year, spelling trouble for farmers, truckers and the entire U.S. economy

In parallel, a race by amateurs and mathematicians has found all 25,000 cases of one “inverse Galois problem”

Earth’s annual checkup shows that we’re at increasing risk of moving away from the environment we’re adapted to

Can a six-dimensional sphere be described using imaginary numbers? For decades, experts puzzled over this question. Now an AI has apparently answered it

The crater, named after geologist and lunar surface expert Tom McGetchin, spans more than two football fields wide

The virus is currently most prevalent in California and the southern U.S., but experts expect it to go national in the coming weeks

With Donald Trump and Xi Jinping set to discuss AI safety, the growing popularity of Chinese open-weight models highlights the limits of developer-controlled safeguards

A new study found that one in four professional football players who died between 2016 and 2021 had CTE—a degenerative brain disease—but what about children who play these sports?

The president also said artificial intelligence should be rebranded as “super intelligence”

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the universe for signs of dark matter and energy

The Parthenon sits atop a platform that is curved into a subtle hill shape that some say makes the structure appear straighter—but is that true?

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake

Science is helping to peel back the layers of how dogs process the world around them

2025 was a brutal year of budget cuts and workforce attrition at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center, the home base for the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope. Experts worry Goddard—and NASA’s space science—may never recover

The cat is smaller than a house cat but has the spots of a leopard

More than 100,000 people in the country are over 100 years old

Advocates and scientists warn that giving political appointees power over research grants would “upend” U.S. science

A search for the most complex elliptic curves has taken mathematicians years. Claude beat the record in days

The dinosaurs were once considered reptilian, but the new results suggest we may need to rethink their evolution

OpenAI’s claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de force, but any real-world applications may be years away—if they ever arrive at all

A high-ranking official announced yesterday that the U.S. military has deployed weapons into orbit to counter threats from Russia and China

Our understanding of consciousness could be fundamentally wrong

After months of headaches and visual hallucinations, a woman was finally revealed to have brain cysts filled with tapeworm larvae