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RFK, Jr., and EPA announce plan to track microplastics in tap water and humans

On April 1, four astronauts blasted off on what will be a 10-day voyage around the moon and back. Their mission, the first to send humans to the moon since 1972, will test key systems for two lunar landings in 2028, which will, in turn, lay the…

esearchers may have detected the first direct evidence of primordial black holes, potentially reshaping our understanding of dark matter. The gravitational wave signal, captured by LIGO in November 2025, has sparked a revolutionary…

Octopuses are some of the most mysterious animals living in the sea. In research out today, however, scientists have pulled back the curtain on the male octopus’ penis-like arm, formally known as the hectocotylus.

Researchers…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s approval of Eli Lilly’s once-daily pill orforglipron as a weight loss and obesity treatment this week was the fastest approval of a new medication in decades. Clinical trial results showed that the…

Most people think of Alzheimer’s disease as an illness of aging. But in fact, the brain changes that characterize it begin much earlier – sometime around the third decade of life.

In the earliest of these changes, a tangled version of a

Octopus sex is even weirder than you think

By Cody Cottier edited by Claire Cameron

‘Jaw-dropping’ fossils reset the clock on when complex animals evolved

Archaeologists in Vietnam have made a discovery that could rewrite scientists’ understanding of where syphilis originated.

The team found the Stone Age skeletons of three people who had a debilitating bacterial disease that left marks on their…