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Salt, with its ability to seal liquid in, is uniquely suited to storing the nation’s Strategic Petroleum Reserve

This tiny robot might look like a high-tech hamster ball, but it could hasten lunar exploration

Children living in areas with low socioeconomic opportunities have more tired and stressed brains, a new study finds

Researchers have created the first high-resolution global map of the extent of one of Earth’s largest—and least visible—living networks

New results challenge AI’s promise for solving how fluids swirl—and suggest a more human path forward

Johanna Gabriela Ottilie “Tilly” Edinger dedicated her career to studying ancient brains. It saved her life

The Tianwen-2 spacecraft is slowly closing in on the near-Earth asteroid Kamo‘oalewa, on a mission that would bring China’s first asteroid samples back to Earth in 2027

Scientists have been expecting El Niño to set in for quite a while now—and it’s finally official

Controlling a small group of “noisy” sheep holds hints for computer algorithms

Extreme heat poses a risk to players, spectators and workers—find out where the danger is and how to keep cool

Cold fronts colliding with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico could cause dangerous weather conditions, forecasters say

Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing embryos not meant for pregnancies using a more precise technique

The second batch of “First Proof” problems is meant to evaluate AI’s usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the 10 questions basically right

The ability to run “mental marathons” is a skill children can learn through simple, but dedicated, practice

A step-by-step guide to the “Doginburgh Inventory,” a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

FIFA is building temporary natural-grass fields meant to play consistently across 16 stadiums in three countries

Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that shouldn't exist

As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola