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One possible recipe for life on Titan is a bust

Hopes for life inside bubbles on Titan have deflated. Oceans of liquid methane and ethane on...

AI auto-complete may subtly shape views on social issues

Using AI to auto-complete written communications may be tempting. But the large language models may also auto-complete...

A strange ‘chirp’ in a brilliant stellar blast points to a magnetar

About a billion light-years away, an extraordinary stellar explosion lit up in the night sky. The blast,...

The Amazon molly — a sex-skipping fish — hacks evolution

The Amazon molly is an evolutionary enigma: an all-female fish that reproduces by cloning itself. Because it...

Technology Is Reshaping Sleep Apnea Treatment

More than a century after sleep apnea was first described in literature, and decades after it was...

Submerged bumblebee queens breathe underwater

The bedraggled bumblebee queen seemed lifeless. Yet she was somehow alive — still breathing after being underwater for roughly...

Interstellar Comet 3I/Atlas Has Another Surprise: It’s Full of Alcohol

Comet 3I/Atlas is now heading out of the solar system and into interstellar space, but scientists are...

‘Smart underwear’ measures how often humans fart

Everybody farts. The question is how often? And how much gas is too much gas to pass?...

Tree tops sparkle with electricity during thunderstorms

Thunderstorms may bring more than rain and gloom. The same forces that cause thunder and lightning also...

How Can a Locomotive Pull a Long Train That’s Much Heavier?

Have you ever watched a mile-long freight train rumble by and wondered how one locomotive can pull...

When the pressure’s off, this superconductor appears to break records

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

Lakes are growing in Alaska. That’s not entirely a bad thing

The St. Elias Mountains in southeast Alaska are dotted with over 100 lakes where glaciers crumble into...
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