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- To guard against cyberattacks in space, researchers ask ‘what if?’
- Even short trips to space can change an astronaut’s biology − a new set of studies offers the most comprehensive look at spaceflight health since NASA’s Twins Study
- From diagnosing brain disorders to cognitive enhancement, 100 years of EEG have transformed neuroscience
- Supreme Court kicks cases about tech companies’ First Amendment rights back to lower courts − but appears poised to block states from hampering online content moderation
- Disability community has long wrestled with ‘helpful’ technologies – lessons for everyone in dealing with AI
- How was popcorn discovered? An archaeologist on its likely appeal for people in the Americas millennia ago
- Federal funding for major science agencies is at a 25-year low
- AI companies train language models on YouTube’s archive − making family-and-friends videos a privacy risk
- Lucy, discovered 50 years ago in Ethiopia, stood just 3.5 feet tall − but she still towers over our understanding of human origins
- The science behind splashdown − an aerospace engineer explains how NASA and SpaceX get spacecraft safely back on Earth
- Genetic testing cannot reveal the gender of your baby − two genetic counselors explain the complexities of sex and gender
- Do hormonal contraceptives increase depression risk? A neuroscientist explains how they affect your mood, for better or worse
- Why do some planets have moons? A physics expert explains why Earth has only one moon while other planets have hundreds
- Rocks on Rapa Nui tell the story of a small, resilient population − countering the notion of a doomed overpopulated island
- Space radiation can damage satellites − my team discovered that a next-generation material could self-heal when exposed to cosmic rays