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In a story from March, how mental health information on social media can be both revelatory and misleading—and how we can make sense of it. In a story from March, researchers used drones to study the ...

A new documentary puts viewers in the shoes of Neanderthals and early humans, giving an intimate glimpse into humans’ ...

Data from the Webb Space Telescope may hold evidence of ancient "dark stars," which would've been powered by dark matter, not nuclear fusion.

It’s Nightmare on Nerd Street—and your science-inspired Halloween costume could win SciFri’s first-ever costume contest.

With gaps in weather balloon data, the National Weather Service didn’t have accurate projections of the worst flooding from ...

While some AI-designed drugs have made it to clinical trials, none of them have been approved. Why has it been harder than ...

It’s easy to take maps for granted. After all, most of us have a pretty good map in our pockets at all times, ready to show us how to get anywhere on the globe. But to make a map useful, you have to ...

In “Replaceable You,” Mary Roach describes mind-boggling efforts to replace human body parts—and why it’s proven to be so ...

What does AI do with human feelings? To investigate its readiness to serve as a therapist, a neuroscientist took ChatGPT for ...