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The withdrawal after 22 years of a controversial stem cell paper highlights how perverse incentives can distort scientific progress

Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, exploded in strength unusually early in its development, fueled by exceptionally warm ocean waters

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on “Chevron deference” could affect federal regulations of everything from power plant emissions to electric vehicles to transmission lines

Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years

False cures and dangerous misinformation, from the misguided to the exploitative, surround cancer patients, with the capacity to do serious harm

Large language models lack emotion and self-consciousness, but they appear to generate reasonable answers to moral quandaries

Emergency access to abortion is preserved—for now. Also, NASA postpones the return of Starliner astronauts, and we’re tracking the spread of bird flu, dengue and mpox.

At least 230 new climate cases were filed in 2023, but researchers noted the growth of such cases was slower than in prior years

Following the fall of Roe v. Wade, abortion remains a top issue for many voters

It turns out there’s little good evidence that pets benefit our physical or mental health

A wine still liquid after two millennia turned up at a construction site near Seville, Spain

California is launching a heat wave ranking system, but it’s unclear how well such efforts actually inform people about heat risks