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The long-held “human childbirth is uniquely brutal” story just got a primate reality check, with implications for how we study evolution.
New research quantifies how worsening night-sky conditions reduce visitor satisfaction, translating skyglow into dollars for policy tradeoffs.
Swift’s aging performance is pushing NASA into an unusual rescue plan, with real consequences for space science funding and priorities.
The draft BAA calls for risk reduction and ground-based testing to mature solar, ISRU oxygen, Stirling RTGs, and more.
New analysis of 2022 survey data links exposure to violence with dramatically higher suicidal thoughts and attempts.
Quanta explains how microscopic forces during cell division are managed by molecular machines that turn strain into resilience.
A six-week expedition gathered sea squirt samples that could translate bacterial toxins into future melanoma treatments.
A galaxy cluster seen just 3.4 billion years after the Big Bang could force a rethink of early structure formation.
New research suggests a giant exoplanet can hold its host star with a magnetic grip, not just the other way around.
What looks like a sci-fi gimmick is becoming an underwater robotics platform with potential for disaster zones and Mars scouting.
A 400 to 375 B.C. Etruscan artifact turns a Trojan War death into wearable, almost ergonomic art.
Researchers at ISTA add experimental constraints to AlphaFold, tackling its single-conformation bias and improving local structure predictions.
