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Science
Total eclipse, partial failure: Scientific expeditions don’t always go as planned
For centuries, astronomers have realized that total solar eclipses offer a valuable...
A rare condition makes other people’s faces look distorted. Why a new case is important
If you’ve seen portraits painted by Pablo Picasso or Francis Bacon, you might not...
NASA’s mission to an ice-covered moon will contain a message between water worlds
NASA’s Europa Clipper spacecraft, headed to Jupiter’s ice-covered moon Europa in...
DNA says you’re related to a Viking, a medieval German Jew or a 1700s enslaved African? What a genetic match really means
In 2022, we reported the DNA sequences of 33 medieval people buried in a Jewish...
Gut microbiome: meet Klebsiella pneumoniae – an opportunistic pathogen that is harmless to some, but causes severe disease in others
Klebsiella pneumoniae is a common species of bacteria found in our bodies – and...
If brain transplants like the one in Poor Things were possible – this is how they might work
The neurosurgeon Sergio Canavero announced in 2015 that he could soon be capable...
Gut microbiome: meet Roseburia intestinalis — the energy-producing bug that helps us fight diseases
The hundreds of species of microorganisms that comprise the microbiome all have...
Prestigious journals make it hard for scientists who don’t speak English to get published. And we all lose out
For the first time in history, a single language dominates global scientific communication....
We went looking for glowing interstellar gas – and stumbled on 49 unknown galaxies
Stars are born from huge clouds of mostly hydrogen gas floating in space. Astronomers...
Thin, bacteria-coated fibers could lead to self-healing concrete that fills in its own cracks
Some say there are two types of concrete – cracked and on the brink of cracking....
How AI and a popular card game can help engineers predict catastrophic failure – by finding the absence of a pattern
Humans are very good at spotting patterns, or repeating features people can recognize
Stellar murder: when stars destroy and eat their own planets
Our Sun is both our best friend and our worst enemy. On the one hand, we owe our...
Your brain can reveal if you’re rightwing – plus three other things it tells us about your politics
The approach is called neuropolitics and uses brain science to understand our politics
‘Dark stars’: dark matter may form exploding stars – and observing the damage could help reveal what it’s made of
Dark matter is a ghostly substance that astronomers have failed to detect for decades,...
Restoring reefs killed by climate change may simply put corals ‘back out to die’ – here’s how we can improve their chances
Coral reefs, like sprawling cities of the sea, support an estimated 25% of all plants...
Solar power occupies a lot of space – here’s how to make it more ecologically beneficial to the land it sits on
As societies look for ways to cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow climate change,...