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H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors,…

An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese,…

Here’s a new detail of how a real-life Cordyceps fungus zombifies still-living animals: Crashing their “blood sugar.” That’s a recently…

As summer temperatures soar, a dip can seem like a great way to cool off. But it can be hard…

A construction project in Southeast Asia dredged up the remains of the extinct human relative Homo erectus from the seabed.…

For only the third time in history, astronomers have detected a new interstellar visitor — an object from another star…

Vanilla plants could have a future that’s not so sweet. Wild relatives of the vanilla plant — which could be…

Vaccines are facing new challenges from an unexpected quarter: the people who set vaccine policy for the United States. Many…

A chatbot might not break a sweat every time you ask it to make your shopping list or come up…

The future of plant life on Mars may be bioplastic. Green algae (Dunaliella tertiolecta) flourished under Mars-like conditions inside translucent,…