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Various companies now offer prospective parents the chance to "score" their embryos' genetics for different traits. But regulation around the tech is lax.
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An illustration of an active supermassive black hole powering a bright quasar.
One afternoon in 2024, when her session in court had ended unusually early, Gisèle Pelicot went to the Leclerc supermarket in Carpentras, a picturesque town in Provence. She asked to meet the security...
Killing thousands of protesters last month was apparently not enough for the Islamic Republic, which followed up by arresting prominent internal critics, too. The Iranian regime wouldn’t have gone aft...
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Drinking water around the District of Columbia hasn't been contaminated. But scientists say the environmental damage could be severe.(Image credit: Nathan Ellgren)
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Antarctic Peninsula projections show accelerating ice loss, warming oceans and global sea level impacts tied to greenhouse gas emissions.
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The Boeing Starliner spacecraft that carried the astronauts Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams to the International Space Station, seen on July 3, 2024.
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Punch with his plush companion at Ichikawa City Zoo.
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James Webb Space Telescope data created a fascinating timelapse video of Uranus spinning in space.
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Boeing's Starliner spacecraft approaches the International Space Station during a test flight.
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket debris burns up over Ingersleben, Germany on Feb. 19, 2025.
Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem has faced intense scrutiny from Republicans and calls for her firing from Democrats since the January 24 shooting of Alex Pretti by Customs and Border Patrol ag...
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a bearded man in a futuristic soldier's suit
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Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams aboard the ISS in August 2024.
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The outline of a footprint left in the clay 2,000 years ago. The orange coloring is digitally added.
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NASA's Jared Isaacman slammed Boeing for failures with its Starliner spacecraft, which was deemed unsafe to return its crew of two astronauts from the International Space Station(Image credit: NASA)
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None of the main research on the voyage of the Araon was funded by the U.S. National Science Foundation, a sign of the difficult times for American science.
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CDG-2 an extremely dark matter-dominated galaxy in its host galaxy cluster
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An Amazon Web Services data center, foreground, under construction next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant in Berwick, Pa., in 2024.
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Chris Wright, the energy secretary, during a visit to Venezuela this month.
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A post on X claimed to be a simple message from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services: Stay active; eat well. But the 90-second video it shared, called “Secretary Kennedy and Kid Rock’s Roc...
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The framework predicts how proteins will function with several interacting mutations and finds combinations that work well together.
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An illustration shows Spinosaurus mirabilis standing along a river's edge over its prey some 95 million years ago.
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A waxing crescent moon shines in the evening sky over Serbia.
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For more than a century, paleontologists have been piecing together how the mysterious predator Andrewsarchus is related to other mammals, like the extinct “hell pigs” and “wolves with hooves”
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A white quadcopter drone is mid-flight in front of some trees and bushes with the space.com logo in the top left corner
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Archeologists found evidence that ancient Romans may have used a medical treatment involving perfume... and human feces.
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Sediments from Scotland hint that ocean-atmosphere interactions continued more than 600 million years ago despite widespread ice.
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NPR's science podcast Short Wave talk about how ultrarunning affects the body, the trend of intermittent fasting and how to protect people's mental health when they talk with chatbots.
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The first image from the surface of the moon, taken by the Soviet Union's Luna 9 spacecraft in 1966.
This is an edition of Time-Travel Thursdays, a journey through The Atlantic’s archives to contextualize the present. Sign up here.ChatGPT and food-delivery droids came to my campus at roughly the same...
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An illustration of material being ejected from the sun during a solar flare.
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Two friends out walking their dogs along the eastern coast of Scotland unexpectedly found an archaeological goldmine. After wind gusts as strong as 55 mph blew away sand on the dunes of a beach near A...
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A flexible tongue, sensitive beak and teethlike cones in the mouth may have helped Archaeopteryx generate enough energy to fly.
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SpaceX landed a rocket in The Bahamas for the second time ever on Thursday, Feb. 19, 2026.
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A new study hints that Saturn's largest moon, Titan, was created when two massive moons smashed into each other around 400 million years ago.
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Dell’s Deal Days sale is live on Amazon, and it’s one of the more substantive tech discount events we’ve seen this year. More than 20 products are marked down—spanning monitors, laptops, all-in-one de...
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Image of the Lego Star Wars Venator-Class Republic Attack Cruiser.
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City lights are visible on the night side of Earth between the solar panels of docked spacecraft in a picture captured from the International Space Station.
Updated with new questions at 2:50 p.m. ET on February 19, 2026.If you put any stock in the ability of IQ tests to assess intelligence, we humans have spent the past century steadily getting smarter. ...
Rebecca Blackwell / APFrom left: Poland’s Iwona Januszyk, China’s Cidan Yuzhen, and Spain’s Maria Costa Díez race up steps during a ski-mountaineering women’s-sprint heat in Bormio, Italy, on February...
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Breast exams, birth control and family planning are just some of the reasons not to skip your annual ob-gyn appointment.
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A surprising new study shows that baby chickens react the same way that humans do when tested for something called the "bouba-kiki effect," which has been linked to the emergence of language.(Image cr...
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An illustration shows a wandering black hole and its home, a shining off center AGN in a dwarf galaxy
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Paleontologists still know comparatively little about fin-backed Spinosaurid dinosaurs. But while the newest addition to the family is impressive, Spinosaurus mirabilis isn’t making it easier for rese...
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Screenshot taken from a video of China's megawatt-class airborne wind power system.
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Humans suffering from IBD could have something to do with how well we tolerate gravity.
In 1988, as the Reverend Jesse Jackson was making his second presidential bid, I left the campaign trail, where I was covering the eventual Democratic nominee, Michael Dukakis, to make a personal pilg...
The quest to live forever has fascinated humans for millennia. The Epic of Gilgamesh, composed about 4,000 years ago, follows a king who searches the world for a plant that can restore youth, only to ...
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While Super Bowl LX is over, the big game still echoes in the minds of many viewers. Not the Seattle Seahawks’ offensive coordination (or the New England Patriots’ lack thereof), mind you, but all tho...
This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.On Tuesday, November 30, 2010, at 2:57 p.m., Prince Andrew—as he then was—received details of his upcoming trip...
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Bananas are in trouble. The popular fruit is threatened by a fungal disease called Fusarium wilt of banana (FWB), which blocks the flow of nutrients and makes it wilt. In the 1950s, the pathogen even ...
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A view of the right side of the Pazyryk woman's skull.
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NASA completed the wet dress rehearsal for its Artemis 2 moon rocket on Feb. 19, 2026.
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Petroglyphs on sandstone at a national park in Chad bear witness to wildlife that once roamed the area before the continent’s water largely receded 6,000 years ago. Could it return?
Subscribe here: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | YouTube | Overcast | Pocket CastsThis week brought another round in President Trump’s war against Black history. A federal judge rebuked his administration f...
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After over 40 years of recovery efforts, one population of the wood stork (Mycteria americana)is being removed from the federal list of endangered and threatened wildlife. The large birds are as tall ...
The life of a globe-trotting environmentalist is a breeding ground for moral quandaries. My oldest friend happens to be one such climate advocate; for several years, he ran a nonprofit encouraging car...
America loves its heroes. The nation has made lions of the men who signed a document 250 years ago to declare independence from the English crown; it’s made saints of the 55 men who gathered in a swea...
Greenland appears to have been a lifelong preoccupation of Adolf Hitler’s. According to stenographic notes from a lunchtime conversation dated May 21, 1942, Hitler recalled that hardly anyone “interes...
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Researchers found a tiny bottle from ancient Rome that contained fecal residue and traces of aromatics, offering evidence that poop was used medicinally more than 2,000 years ago.(Image credit: Ilker ...
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Coal plants are responsible for nearly half of all mercury emissions in the United States, according to the E.P.A.
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The E.P.A. last week erased the scientific finding that gave it the authority to regulate greenhouse gases. Cars are a top emitter of the gases, which cause climate change.
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Illustration of a quark zooming through a quark-gluon plasma, which filled the universe in the first milliseconds after the Big Bang. Physicsists have proven that such interactions left a clear “wake”...
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The New Zealand coast seen from the icebreaker Araon as it neared the end of its journey on Thursday.
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Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, the director of the National Institutes of Health, will serve as the acting director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
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Language can’t stay still for long. It’s constantly evolving alongside the cultures that use them—and slang frequently showcases this complex relationship at its most creative, playful, and strange. W...
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Research reveals more short-snouted dogs besides pugs and bulldogs that struggle with breathing. Pekingese and Japanese Chins topped the study's list.
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The reconstruction of the two original Yunxian <em>Homo erectus</em> fossils, discovered in 1989 and 1990. There is currently no reconstruction of the third Yunxian skull.
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The cryovolcanic comet 29P/Schwassmann-Wachmann experienced a massive outburst on Feb. 10 and subsequently morphed into a giant spiral, similar to a snail shell or an ammonoid fossil.
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The Artemis II rocket is sitting on a launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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The findings strengthen the case that regeneration is an old trait, offering insights into how complex tissues rebuild themselves.
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In modern-day Jordan, a 1500-year old mass grave sheds light on the lives of people affected by the Plague of Justinian.
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The tallest trees in the Peruvian Amazon store the most carbon but are the most likely to be harvested for timber.
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Something is stopping Dry Lake Valley’s golden eagles from reproducing and killing raptors that fly in to fill the void.
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A rare dinosaur fossil on display at the Museum of the Rockies in Bozeman, Montana, tells a gory story. The skull from a large plant-eating Edmontosaurus has a tooth lodged into it, indicating that it...
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In the Lost Science series, scientists whose jobs or funding have been cut by the Trump administration tell their stories.
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It’s increasingly difficult to keep track of all the generative AI slop currently fooling unsuspecting internetgoers on any given day. Earlier this month, a (fake) image went viral after enough people...
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Some say we’ve entered a new age of AI-enabled scientific discovery. But human insight and creativity still can’t be automated.
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Despite their popularity, for their seemingly helpless-looking eyes and flat faces, short-skulled (or brachycephalic) dogs like the French bulldog often have serious difficulty breathing. A study publ...
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YETI built its reputation on containers that refuse to quit. Now your favorite Austin-based cooler (and insulated bottle and beach chair) company has leveraged that legacy and a strategic acquisition ...
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The world’s largest colony of northern gannets was decimated by bird flu in 2022. Now, as their numbers climb again, researchers are collecting data to understand the virus’ lasting effects
In Chile’s famous Torres Del Paine National Park, a mother puma with her two cubs in tow attacks a guanaco. It’s the circle of life and an important lesson for the young cubs. Photographer Kevin Shi c...
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Most mammals grow up in single parent homes. It’s estimated that over 95 percent of the planet’s nearly 6,000 known mammalian species rely almost exclusively on mothers to nurture and raise their offs...
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One day in March of 1948, George Hickinbottom, a British sailor, was walking around the docks of Stonecutters Island in Hong Kong. When the 17-year-old spotted a small black-and-white tuxedo cat, bare...
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A study finds that people who did one specific form of brain training in the 1990s were less likely to be diagnosed with dementia over the next 20 years.(Image credit: spawns)
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Many experts had thought sharks didn't exist in the frigid waters of Antarctica.(Image credit: University of Western Australia)
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Quasicrystals are orderly structures that never repeat. Scientists just showed they can exist in space and time.
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The complex biology of ghrelin, the hunger hormone, has researchers wondering how its absence helps snakes last a long time with no food, if at all.
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The Apple Macintosh personal computer is an iconic piece of tech history—with an emphasis on the word history. Compared to the 32-bit PCs of yesteryear, today’s hardware is so advanced that it often f...
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In The Story of Stories, technologist Kevin Ashton explores how storytelling has evolved and why stories matter.
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Subtle shifts in how users described symptoms to AI chatbots led to dramatically different, sometimes dangerous medical advice.