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The Origins of Life: What Science Tells Us About Where We Came From

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How the Human Brain Works: A Journey Into the Most Complex Object in the Universe

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What Is Time? The Science and Mystery of Our Most Valuable Resource

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The Digestive System Explained Step by Step

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The Circulatory System: How Blood Keeps You Alive

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The Science Behind Everything: How Physics, Chemistry, and Biology Shape Our World

Interior of the Projectile Spectator Detector (PSD) used in the NA61/SHINE experiment at CERN. Credit: Julien Marius Ordan, CERN-PHOTO-202011-147-2 / License: CC-BY-4.0

Physicists Uncover Quark Flavor Symmetry Violation in Atomic Collisions

Stellate protein undergoes asymmetric segregation during male meiosis in Drosophila. Green (Stellate), Grey (Nucleus), Magenta (Contractile ring), Yellow (F-actin). Credit: Xuefeng Meng/Whitehead Institute

The Secret War in the Germline

The landscape surrounding a section of the Sudbury River on July 2, 2005 at the low water stage. Images like these can help us visualize Thoreau's river seasons. Credit: D.T. Stevenson

Thoreau’s River Diary Reveals Hidden Signs of Climate Change in New England

ALICE detector. Credit: CERN

LHC Transforms Lead into Gold Through Nuclear Reactions

Specimens of Shishania. A and B, specimen in different lighting conditions, showing how the uneven breakage of the specimen reveals the distinct upper and lower surfaces. E-G, specimen showing three-dimensionality of its spines and their arrangement around an apical orifice. H, two individual spines: on the left, preserved in top-down view, revealing the circular cross-section; on the right, preserved side-on. Credit: Zhang Xiguang.

Evolutionary Twist: Spiny Fossil ‘Shishania’ Revealed as Sponge Relative, Not Mollusk

The landscape of "mountains" and "valleys" known as the Cosmic Cliffs is actually a portion of the nebula Gum 31, which contains a young star cluster called NGC 3324. Both Gum 31 and NGC 3324 are part of a vast star-forming region known as the Carina Nebula Complex. Credit: NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI.

NASA Brings Cosmic Cliffs to Life in Stunning 3D Visualization from Webb Telescope

This six-panel illustration of a tidal disruption event around a supermassive black hole shows the following: 1) A supermassive black hole is adrift inside a galaxy, its presence only detectable by gravitational lensing; 2) A wayward star gets swept up in the black hole's intense gravitational pull; 3) The star is stretched or "spaghettified" by gravitational tidal effects; 4) The star's remnants form a disk around the black hole; 5) There is a period of black hole accretion, pouring out radiation across the electromagnetic spectrum, from X-rays to radio wavelengths; and 6) The host galaxy, seen from afar, contains a bright flash of energy that is offset from the galaxy's nucleus, where an even more massive black hole dwells. Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI, Ralf Crawford (STScI)

Space Jaws: A Rogue Black Hole Caught Devouring a Star in Deep Space

PNA hexamers and monomers.(A) PNA hexamers composed of six identical, consecutive units of nucleic acid bases: adenine (A6), guanine (G6), cytosine (C6), and thymine (T6). PNA backbone (AEG) residues are colored in red, the acetyl linker residues are in pink, and the nucleic acid bases are in blue. (B) Structures of PNA monomers, mA, mG, mC, and mT. Credit: Science Advances (2025). DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.adr0006

PNA Molecules Survive Venus-Like Acid Clouds, Hinting at Alien Life Potential

New research shows that the JWST could detect seismic evidence from massive planet collisions for millions of years after the impact. Though this artist’s image shows two rocky planets colliding, gas giants with high metallicity also collide and create long-lived seismic activity. Credit: NASA/SOFIA/Lynette Cook

Planetary Smash-Ups Leave Seismic Echoes Detectable Across the Galaxy

In 1966, Mermin and Wagner theoretically predicted that while ferromagnetic order can be stabilized in three-dimensional systems, it cannot be sustained in two-dimensional isotropic systems due to thermal fluctuations (left: 3D, right: 2D). Credit: Nature Communications (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-58643-3

Researchers Transform Non-Magnetic Material into a Ferromagnet

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When Birds Lead Hunters Astray: The Curious Case of the Vengeful Honeyguides

An artist's rendering of some of the detectors buried in ice that make up the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Credit: Jamie Yang/IceCube Collaboration

The Hidden Signal from the Squid Galaxy

$A composite image of the region around Sagittarius A\* at the center of our galaxy. Credit: X-ray: NASA/UMass/Q.D. Wang et al.; IR: NASA/STScI$

Gravitational Forests: The Chaotic Symphony Surrounding Our Galaxy’s Heart

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The Genetic Secrets of Natural Short Sleepers

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Scientists Unlock Hidden Quantum Powers with Simple Filtering Breakthrough

X-ray images obtained with the ASCA GIS in the 0.7–2 keV (left) and 2–10 keV (right) energy bands. Credit: arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2504.21238

Japanese Astronomers Uncover a Merging Galaxy Cluster Behind the Milky Way

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How Can You Always Keep Yourself Healthy?

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10 Surprising Facts About the Human Body

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How Clinical Trials Work: From Lab to Life

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The Scientific Method in Medicine: How Doctors Make Decisions

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What Is Evidence-Based Medicine? Explained Simply

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Medical Research: How New Treatments Are Discovered

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What Is Pathology? How Diseases Are Diagnosed

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Anatomy vs. Physiology: What’s the Difference?