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Graphical abstract. Credit: iScience (2025). DOI: 10.1016/j.isci.2025.112492

Can You Trust ChatGPT with Your Health?

These Truss Links self-assembled to form a tetrahedron. Credit: Creative Machines Lab

These New Robots Can Grow, Heal, and Evolve on Their Own

The back (left) and front (right) of the proposed MOTIF hand. The key components of the MOTIF hand are labelled. The image also shows an example of data from the RGB and thermal cameras. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2506.19201

This Robotic Hand Can Feel Heat and Weight Just Like You Do

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This New AI Doesn’t Just Predict Your Choices It Understands Why You Made Them

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Can a Tiny Spark of Copper Keep Your Mind Sharp as You Age

Lymphatic vessels (green) are wrapped around blood vessels (red) in a mouse lung. The PAR1 protein triggers lymphatic vessels to be permeable, so they can absorb more fluid and immune cells for healing—a response distinct from blood vessels, where similar changes result in leakage and disease. Credit: Dr. Chou Chou

The Hidden Lung Pathway That Could Save Lives After Injury

Intrinsic variability damping timescale versus black hole mass and gamma-ray luminosity for accreting efficient jetted AGNs. Credit: The Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series (2025). DOI: 10.3847/1538-4365/add481

The Flickering Secrets of Black Hole Jets Are Finally Coming to

Concept art of a high-velocity cloud with a complex internal structure. The green color represents the extremely high-velocity HI cloud. Credit: SHAO

This High-Speed Hydrogen Cloud Is Hiding a Cosmic Secret

Composite image of the Abell 3558 environment. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.07549

A Ghostly Signal Reveals Turbulent Weather in the Heart of a Galaxy Cluster

P2RY12+/CD206-/CX3CR1-eGFPhigh ramified microglia are the myeloid cell localized to capillaries. Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-60753-x

The Tiny Brain Cells That Could Hold the Secret to Beating Alzheimer’s

Graphical summaries of the mechanism by which the gut microbiota augments the antitumour efficacy of PD-1 blockade therapy. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09249-8

The Gut Bacterium That Supercharges Cancer Immunotherapy

Drawing and descriptions of a specimen from Kebara. Credit: Anaëlle Jallon

Did Neanderthals Pass Down Family Recipes Through Generations?

The NEAHG cline and its legacy through admixture in ancient northern Eurasia. Credit: Nature (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41586-025-09189-3

The Siberian Origins of Europe’s Most Mysterious Languages

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The Role of AI in Uncovering Ancient Secrets

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How AI Is Protecting Endangered Species

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Will AI Cure Diseases We Once Thought Impossible?

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How AI Is Transforming Space Exploration

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AI Is Mapping the Secrets of the Human Brain

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The Robots That Could Save You in a Disaster

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Can AI Predict Crimes Before They Happen?

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Why Your Next Lawyer Might Be an Algorithm

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The AI Artists Creating Works No Human Could Imagine

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How AI Is Changing the Way Doctors Diagnose Disease

Reconstructed ribcages belonging to fossil H. sapiens. Credit: Communications Biology (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s42003-025-08472-3

The Mystery Inside Ötzi’s Ribcage Changes Everything We Thought About Our Past

Satellite image of rapidly deepening blizzard off the northeastern United States on January 4, 2018. Credit: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

The Fiercest Storms Are Getting Stronger Even as They Grow Rarer

The resistances in the LaAlO₃/KTaO₃ interfacial superconductor show a difference when current flows in opposite directions. This nonreciprocal transport provides evidence for parity mixing of spin-singlet and spin-triplet Cooper pair states in this system. Credit: Jinfeng Zhai, Fudan University

When Electrons Spin Together Strange Superconductors Are Born

Atmospheric escape is an important aspect of a planet's evolution. Astronomers want to examine how it affects habitable exoplanets, and if the Habitable Worlds Observatory is built, it could be the tool they need. Credit: NASA (edited by Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT)

The Silent Escape That Decides a Planet’s Fate

This is HOPS-315, a baby star where astronomers have observed evidence for the earliest stages of planet formation. The image was taken with the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), in which ESO is a partner. Together with data from the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), these observations show that hot minerals are beginning to solidify. In orange we see the distribution of carbon monoxide, blowing away from the star in a butterfly-shaped wind. In blue we see a narrow jet of silicon monoxide, also beaming away from the star. These gaseous winds and jets are common around baby stars like HOPS-315. Together the ALMA and JWST observations indicate that in addition to these features, there is also a disk of gaseous silicon monoxide around the star that is condensing into solid silicates––the first stages of planetary formation. Credit: ALMA(ESO/NAOJ/NRAO) / M. McClure et al.

Scientists Witness the Earliest Spark of Planet Formation Beyond the Sun

This artist's illustration shows two trans-Neptunian objects in the distant reaches of the solar system. New research examines how a stellar flyby in the early solar system set TNOs on their unusual orbits. Credit: Southwest Research Institute

The Outer Solar System Still Remembers the Star That Got Too Close

An RGB image of A2744-z7p9OD using the F090W, F277W and F444W filters, with overlaid points indicating the positions of spectroscopically confirmed galaxies (squares, solid line) and photometric candidates (circles). The dashed, large squares indicate the most clustered core regions. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2507.06284

James Webb Finds a Mature Galaxy Cluster Just 650 Million Years After the Big Bang