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Sharks in Brazil Test Positive for a Surprising Contaminant: CocaineCocaine has been detected in sharks for the first time, but...

New Superheavy Element Synthesis Points to Long-Sought ‘Island of Stability’A novel way of making superheavy elements could soon add a...

China-U.S. Science Collaborations Are Declining, Slowing Key ResearchThe U.S. and China are collaborating less on projects across scientific disciplines amid...

Emotional Ads Show How Climate Change Is ‘Robbing Our Kids of a Safe and Beautiful World’The nonpartisan group Science Moms...

Between Twister and Twisters, Tornado Science Has Improved a Lot in Three DecadesThree decades of tornado science research is now...

How SpaceX Will Turn a Workhorse Vehicle into a Hulking Destroyer of Space StationsSpaceX will supercharge its Dragon capsule to...

Worldwide Tech Outage Started with Defective Crowdstrike Update to Microsoft WindowsAn issue with a commonly used security software called Crowdstrike...

Domestication Squished Dogs’ Heads and Obscured Their EmotionsPugs, Boston terriers, bulldogs and boxers—dogs with less wolflike facial features are worse...

Paris Olympics Will Be a Training Ground for AI-Powered Mass SurveillanceIn the run-up to the Paris 2024 Olympics, the French...

Stingrays Move Thousands of Tons of Sand on the Seafloor per YearIn search of snacks, stingrays' feeding technique supports ecosystems...