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Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude

New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that autism should not be understood as a homogeneous...

How to Get Your Kids Into STEM Even When Its Future Is Uncertain

Blame the lightsabers. That’s what led me to become a professor. As a high school student, one...

The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known...

Why US Power Bills Are Surging

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Like most Americans this...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. When I heard the news, my...

China Is Leading the World in the Clean Energy Transition. Here’s What That Looks Like

Speaking by video at the UN Climate Summit in New York last week, China's president Xi Jinping...

To make a tasty yogurt, just add ants (and their microbes)

In parts of Eurasia, the key to a tangy yogurt treat scurries along the forest floor. Red...

Nobel Prizes honor great discoveries — but leave much of science unseen

Katalin Karikó thought the call was a joke. It was 3 a.m. on October 2, 2023. Her...

A Newly Discovered ‘Einstein’s Cross’ Reveals the Existence of a Giant Dark Matter Halo

According to Einstein’s general theory of relativity, light bends around objects with large masses, such as galaxies....

AI-designed proteins test biosecurity safeguards

New patches to biosecurity screening software can make it harder to produce potentially harmful proteins using artificial...

How dandelions rig the odds for catching upward gusts

It’s surprisingly difficult — by puffing from any one direction — to send all of a dandelion’s...

Former Google CEO Will Fund Boat Drones to Explore Rough Antarctic Waters

A foundation created by Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, will fund a project to send...
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