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An atmospheric scientist who was dragged into a tornado while conducting field research in Kansas offers a stark reminder of how quickly supercells can turn deadly.

Researchers are raising concerns that overly agreeable chatbot responses may reinforce a user’s viewpoint during interpersonal dilemmas, potentially influencing moral judgment and conflict resolution.

Physicist John Pendry, long known for the invisibility cloak, is now using metamaterial ideas to probe more ambitious territory, including materials that could simulate black-hole-like physics.

New Scientist reports that people with aphantasia are experimenting with training programs to strengthen mental imagery, opening a broader scientific question about whether the so-called mind’s eye is more changeable tha

NASA’s Artemis II crew has splashed down safely after a 10-day mission around the moon, closing a major test flight and setting up the next phase of the agency’s return-to-the-moon campaign.

A small study found that cats ate substantially more when the smell associated with their food changed, suggesting that declining interest may reflect odor familiarity rather than simple fussiness.

Two highly precise hydrogen experiments now agree with the smaller proton measurement that once shocked physics, strengthening the case that the particle’s radius is about 0.84 femtometres.

A new Science paper points to wildlife trade as a driver of animal-to-human pathogen transmission across four decades, sharpening the policy case for treating commerce, conservation, and public health as one connected防线.

A new survey finds fewer than half of parents believe schools are well prepared to respond if students become victims of nudification AI apps.

A McGill-led study reports that non-producing oil and gas wells may emit microbial methane at rates about 1,000 times higher than previous estimates.

New reporting highlights how AI systems can miss urgent meaning in regional phrasing and local language, limiting their usefulness during floods and other climate emergencies.

Researchers at Nagoya University say decoy molecules can coax native soil bacteria into degrading non-native compounds, offering a potentially useful path for pollution cleanup without genetic engineering

A new report highlights high levels of forever chemicals in Svalbard reindeer, underscoring how industrial contaminants can reach even highly remote Arctic ecosystems.

The IUCN has declared emperor penguins endangered, linking the status change to climate change and mounting extinction risk in Antarctica.

Researchers at Bar-Ilan University report that changing a single DNA letter can completely alter sex development in mice, underscoring how small genetic changes can have outsized biological effects.

As the Artemis II astronauts head back toward Earth, they say the meaning of their lunar flyby has yet to fully register even after thousands of photographs and extensive observations in deep space.

A new study in the Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics argues that the long search for dark matter may need a new framing: the lack of a signal could itself point to a more complex dark sector.

A study published in Cell Research reports a checkpoint that helps control the identity of multiple stem cell types across developmental stages, pointing to a potentially unifying principle in stem cell biology.

A new global inventory found that more than 3,000 fish species have been caught in bottom trawls, with researchers estimating the real number may be nearly twice as high.

Research highlighted by Phys.org found that tropical rainforest biodiversity in Ecuador rebounded to more than 90% within 30 years, pointing to a stronger recovery capacity than many conservation debates assume.