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A New Startup Wants to Edit Human Embryos

In 2018, Chinese scientist He Jiankui shocked the world when he revealed that he had created the...

NASA’s Quiet Supersonic Jet Takes Flight

About an hour after sunrise over the Mojave Desert of Southern California, NASA’s newest experimental supersonic jet...

This flower smells like injured ants — and flies can’t resist it

A Japanese flower lures in its pollinators with a morbid perfume — the scent of injured ants....

A Fight Over Big Tech’s Emissions Has the Greenhouse Gas Protocol Caught in the Crossfire

Last week’s request for public comment from the Greenhouse Gas Protocol (GHGP) doesn’t look like a major...

How to Keep Subways and Trains Cool in an Ever Hotter World

The highest temperature that Jonathan Paul has ever recorded in a London Tube station is about 42...

Some planets might home brew their own water

Some planets might produce their own water instead of relying on outside sources. In laboratory experiments, researchers...

Black holes are encircled by thin rings of light. This physicist wants to see one

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

Rainfall Buries a Mega-Airport in Mexico

Lake Texcoco Ecological Park—which opened two years ago, becoming one of the largest urban parks in the...

Deep Antarctic waters hold geometric communities of fish nests

Carly Kay is the Fall 2025 science writing intern at Science News. She holds a bachelor’s degree in...

The AI model OpenFold3 takes a crucial step in making protein predictions

A new AI model is opening the black box of the leading artificial intelligence tool for predicting...

Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified

Meteorologists who have spent the past few days monitoring the rapid development of Hurricane Melissa in the...

Two tiny genetic shifts helped early humans walk upright

Two small genetic changes reshaped the human pelvis, setting our early ancestors on the path to upright...
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