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The critters were carrying the Sin Nombre variant of hantavirus, which can be spread from rodents to humans, but not from one person to another

The science of de-extinction does not exist, but Colossal Bioscience’s “artificial egg” is an interesting technical feat

Denver’s hockey team is studded with stars, but training and playing the game some 5,000 feet above sea level may give their athletic performance a boost over that of their rivals

Clinical trials for treatments against Ebola Bundibugyo virus are ‘in a strong position’ to be launched quickly in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and Uganda

The nation's top court extended a stay on a lower court order banning telemedicine access to mifepristone, a drug used in medication abortions—but the order sets up a longer legal fight

Flock shape, speed and structure are key in deciphering whether radar readouts are birds, bats, insects or weather

Digital distractions can undermine our focus, but research suggests that our inherent capacity to pay attention hasn’t diminished

Seen just 800 million years after the big bang, an object called LAP1-B is a galactic building block that seems to hold some of the first stars to ever shine

Mapping their starting point like bees do helps autonomous drones find their way

This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it’s ready for NASA’s planned 2027 Artemis III mission

Here are some of the most fascinating facts about animal moms, from naked mole rats to giraffes and octopuses

The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena, or UFOs. Here are the images released so far

After decades of fighting for renewable energy, solar power is finally achieving economic dominance. But AI data centers threaten to consume those energy gains

Stable rhythms of rest and activity are associated with healthier biological age markers, a new study suggests

The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority

An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

Researchers say that President Donald Trump’s resurrection of widely maligned fitness testing in schools is ‘half-baked’ and unlikely to move the needle on youth physical activity alone

Journalist Evan Ratliff explores what happens when AI agents are given real autonomy to build and run a start‑up from scratch

A growing minority believes it’s a mistake to tie so many mathematical formulas to the famed 3.14... value. Another value, tau, could be better