Forty years after the world's worst nuclear disaster, wolves outnumber people sevenfold, brown bears have returned after a century, and horses sleep in abandoned houses. The reason isn't what you'd expect.
Liam Price, 23, has no math degree. He typed a decades-old conjecture into ChatGPT and got back what experts are calling a "Book Proof" — using a method no human had thought to try.
Every member of the board that oversees $9 billion in federal research funding received the same boilerplate email on Friday. No justification was given.
Four astronauts traveled 252,756 miles from Earth and broke a 53-year-old distance record. At their first press conference, what they wanted to talk about was hope.
NASA spent a decade planning a space station around the Moon. The station's two primary habitable modules couldn't survive storage on Earth.
Microplastics appeared in every single healthy brain sample tested. Near tumours, concentrations were significantly higher — and correlated with faster cancer growth. Whether that's cause or consequence is the open question.
Two administrations tried to defund NASA's next great observatory. It survived, came in early and under budget, and launches in September with a field of view 100 times wider than Hubble's.
The genetic machinery behind complex language didn't originate with modern humans. A University of Iowa study suggests our shared ancestor with Neanderthals may have been capable of speech — pushing the origin story back by hundreds of thousands of years.
A robotic arm taught itself table tennis from scratch in simulation, then transferred that skill directly to the real world — no human demonstrations required. It just beat elite players under official competition rules.
A single injection restored hearing in 90% of participants — including a 32-year-old who had never heard a sound. Two and a half years later, it's still working.
B cells, long known as the immune system's infection fighters, also help muscles burn fuel during exercise — at least in mice. The finding opens a entirely new window on how the body sustains physical effort.
A nitrogen-bearing ring structure — the same class of molecule considered a precursor to DNA — has turned up in a 3.5-billion-year-old rock on Mars. Nobody is saying "life" yet. But the chemistry is getting harder to dismiss.
40,000 comments from 150 AI agents and not a single human voice. The researchers who built Agent4Science say the machine discourse is giving them ideas they wouldn't have had alone.
The booster landed perfectly. The satellite is a write-off. On only its third flight, Blue Origin's flagship rocket stranded a customer's payload in the wrong orbit — and now the FAA has grounded it indefinitely.
Salmon exposed to cocaine's main metabolite swam nearly twice as far as unexposed fish — and dispersed 12km farther across a Swedish lake. The study is the first to show these effects in the wild, not a tank.
A particle detector that helped map interstellar space for nearly 49 years went dark this week. NASA didn't switch it off because it broke — the spacecraft is slowly running out of plutonium.
The biggest 3D map of the universe is done — and early data suggests dark energy might not behave the way physicists assumed for decades.
Before this study, geneticists had found 21 instances of recent directional selection in humans. A new analysis of nearly 16,000 ancient genomes found 479 — and the pace quickened as civilization dawned.
UCL researchers fed quantum-computed data into a conventional AI model and got significantly better long-term predictions of chaotic systems — while using hundreds of times less memory.
The heat shield on Artemis I came back so gouged it delayed the next flight by years. NASA changed the re-entry path but not the shield. The Artemis II crew says it 'looked wonderful.' Engineers will spend months deciding if they agree.
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