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How often you empty your bowels may reveal more about what lives inside your gut than you realize.

According to a 2024 study, the frequency with which you poop could actively shape the microbiome that lines your colon. The paper joins a…

The right chemical formula can give mundane materials the most unlikely of makeovers. If you have any doubts, recent transformations, such as using forever chemicals to make lithium or recycling plastic using spent car fuel, will…

A face-swapping illusion can unlock childhood memories

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NASA has published a “Moon Base User’s Guide” detailing the many challenges the agency will need to overcome for it to complete 73 planned moon landings and build a permanent lunar base.

The document, published April 6, is a bare-bones nine-page…

The bees appear to vary in size. Some show wings. Others display segmented bodies and what look like jointed legs frozen mid-stride across the rust-colored regolith of Gale Crater.

William Romoser, an entomologist who spent decades…

Nearly nine years after Elon Musk unveiled the Tesla Semi in November 2017, the company is now opening a dedicated factory just outside of Reno, Nevada, and ramping toward mass production of 50,000 trucks per year.

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We may appear to have little in common with sperm whales – enormous, ocean-dwelling animals that last shared a common ancestor with humans more than 90 million years ago. But the whales’ vocalized communications are remarkably similar to our…

Kendra Pierre-Louis: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Kendra Pierre-Louis, in for Rachel Feltman.

The year is 1998. Brandy and Monica’s hit song “The Boy Is Mine” is all over the radio. The movie There’s Something About…

The patient: A woman in her 40s in the United Kingdom

The symptoms: One day, as the woman was reading, she heard an unfamiliar voice say, “Please don’t be afraid. I know it must be shocking for you to hear me speaking to you like this, but this…

Researchers studying a 250-million-year-old fossil have found the first ever proof that mammal ancestors laid eggs, with the discovery also shedding light on a remarkable survival story.

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