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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...

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin Wins Contract to Take NASA Rover to the Moon

NASA’s VIPER lunar rover could be delivered to the moon by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezos’ aerospace company....

A grapevine bacteria may help douse wildfire-tainted wine’s ashy aftertaste

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

These parachutes unfurl thanks to the Japanese art of kirigami

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

AI generated its first working genome: a tiny bacteria killer

Artificial intelligence can dash off more than routine emails. It has now written tiny working genomes.  Two...

This Startup Wants to Put Its Brain-Computer Interface in the Apple Vision Pro

Startup Cognixion announced today that it is launching a clinical trial of its wearable brain-computer interface technology...
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