One June morning 20 years ago, Mark Moffett, an entomologist at the Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, was drinking coffee behind a cottage in Portal, Ariz., when he noticed something odd in the mesquite desert.
On the ground, as Dr….
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As Artemis II is celebrated, the world faces hard questions about US leadership in space
The successful Artemis II trip around the Moon was a historic achievement – the first crewed lunar fly-by in more than 50 years, and the greatest distance yet travelled by humans from our “pale blue dot”.
The mission was marked by…
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Taking Too Much Vitamin D Can Backfire, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
The “sunshine vitamin” may come with a dark side. Just as a lack of vitamin D can lead to health dangers, so too can an excess.
For years now, scientists have warned that not everyone needs to take vitamin D supplements, and that, in rare…
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Quantum Computers Could Break Encryption Far Sooner Than We Realized : ScienceAlert
Online data is generally pretty secure. Assuming everyone is careful with passwords and other protections, you can think of it as being locked in a vault so strong that even all the world’s supercomputers, working together for 10,000 years,…
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Ocean Heat Waves Are ‘Supercharging’ Hurricane Damage, Scientists Warn : ScienceAlert
WASHINGTON (AP) – Marine heat waves are supercharging damage caused by hurricanes and tropical cyclones across the globe, a new study found.
Researchers looked at 1,600 tropical cyclones – the broader category of storms that includes…
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Human scientists trounce the best AI agents on complex tasks
The number of publications in life, physical and Earth sciences that mention AI grew by a factor of almost 30 from 2010 to 2025.Credit: 4kodiak/Getty
In an indication of how quickly scientists are embracing artificial intelligence, the number of…
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Huge analysis of 320,000 careers suggests that productive researchers stay that way
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Researchers hoping to find late-career success are in for bad news. A study that tracked the publishing output of hundreds of thousands of scientists has found that the most important predictor of being a top…
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The ‘crazy rule-defying’ genes that determine sex
Sex, Genes and Chromosomes: Their Discovery, Function and Evolution Jennifer A. Marshall Graves Cambridge Univ. Press (2026)
“Sex is the most profound normal difference between human individuals,” explains geneticist Jennifer Graves in Sex,…
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How I harness research to inform humanitarian relief efforts
A Médecins Sans Frontières treatment centre in Monrovia, Liberia, in 2014 during the Ebola outbreak.Credit: Pascal Guyot/AFP via Getty
With degrees in nursing, public policy and social anthropology, Beverley Stringer has worked in various…
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