There was a time when Elon Musk and Sam Altman were friends. But the two tech billionaires are now embroiled…
Year: 2026
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This week’s science news was dominated by coverage of a cluster of hantavirus infections aboard the Dutch-flagged cruise ship MV…
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Mangrove forests around the world provide a largely overlooked nitrogen-pollution cleanup service — one that, if humans had to pay…
When the dinosaur-killing meteor hit Earth 66 million years ago, many flowering plants transformed into “hopeful monsters” to endure the…
UFOs have come to Washington again — this time, in a newly released tranche of more than 150 previously classified…
The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is implementing a new strategy to provide experimental gene therapies to patients with rare…
Researchers have created a network that they say demonstrates the real-world feasibility of a quantum internet that’s physically impossible to…
A man’s lower jaw recovered from a medieval church in Aberdeen reveals the oldest known use of a dental bridge…