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The race to mine critical minerals for AI and clean energy is creating 'sacrifice zones' that harm water and health of world's poor.

Coffee doesnt just energize-it actively reshapes the gut and mind. Researchers found that both caffeinated and decaf coffee altered gut bacteria in ways linked to better mood and lower stress. Decaf even improved learnin...

Long before humans spread across the globe, a deadly disease may have quietly shaped where our ancestors lived-and even how we evolved. New research reveals that malaria didnt just threaten early human survival; it activ...

The Eta Aquariids will peak May 5-6, with debris from Halley's Comet creating swift meteors, though bright moonlight will make them harder to see.

The 570-megapixel Dark Energy Camera in Chile has captured an extended halo and a dust-filled disk around the hat-shaped Sombrero Galaxy.

Physicists are rethinking one of quantum mechanics biggest puzzles: how fuzzy possibilities become definite reality. New research suggests that spontaneous collapse processes-possibly linked to gravity-could subtly blur ...

The samurai are renowned as skilled warriors, but were any of them women?

The brains memory center may begin life more like a crowded web than an empty canvas. Researchers discovered that early neural networks in the hippocampus are dense and seemingly random, then become more organized by she...

A new analysis of the Boltzmann brain paradox suggests our memories and sense of reality could, in theory, be random illusions born from cosmic chaos. By uncovering circular reasoning in how physicists think about time a...

Astronomers have unleashed a powerful new AI tool called RAVEN to comb through data from NASAs TESS mission-and its paying off in a big way. By analyzing millions of stars, the system has confirmed over 100 exoplanets, i...