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The pasteurization process was invented in the 1860s and continues to keep people safe from a range of foodborne illnesses

Nearly half of residents lost income after a hurricane, a new study shows. Most were low-paid hourly workers in storefront shops

Debris from spacecraft threatens the burgeoning space economy. We need a global agreement to keep space clean

The H5N1 virus is a long way from becoming adapted to humans, but limited testing and tracking mean we could miss danger signs

A law proposed in New York State seeks to reduce plastic packaging, ban certain plastic chemicals and mandate that producers of packaged consumer goods fund the recycling or disposal of what they sell

Researchers are striving to reverse-engineer artificial intelligence and scan the “brains” of LLMs to deduce the how any why of that they are doing

Earth is shifting into a La Niña period, changing climate patterns all around the globe

A new AI-based analytical technique reveals that specific language phrasing in Reddit misinformation posts foretold people rejecting COVID vaccinations

How do astronomers find the darkest objects in the universe?

Cape Cod’s water is turning “pea-soup green”—and after decades of scientific detective work, we know why.

A former stretch of the Nile River, now buried beneath the Sahara Desert, may help scientists understand how Egyptians built the pyramids and adapted to a drying landscape

Technology that enables researchers to interpret brain signals could one day allow people to talk using only their thoughts

The U.S. government has a stockpile of H5N1 vaccines, and several companies could make millions more if needed. But scaling up the supply could take time

Across the globe, singing traditions are vast and varied. Their commonalities may help explain how music evolved

Sound recording could take a cue from arachnid acoustics

Years of careful planning helped safeguard against last weekend’s severe space weather, but we still don’t know how we’d cope with a monster event

Eurasian Jays use something similar to humans’ episodic memory to remember where they stored their food

We need to tell a new story about AI, and fiction has that power, humanities scholars say

Everything in the universe may be preordained, according to physics

Human’s evolutionary remnants show us the kinds of animals we used to be