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Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

Pspspspsps

Cat-Like Whiskers Help Tiny Drones Fly in the Dark

Ritsuko Kawai

Everyone Hates Digger. It’s the Perfect Climate Movie

Digging Deep

Everyone Hates Digger. It’s the Perfect Climate Movie

Molly Taft

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think

Cold War

They War-Gamed Dimming the Sun. It Went Even Worse Than You Think

Karl Mathiesen

A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age

Skin Deep

A New Anti-Aging Drug Looks to Turn Back the Clock on Skin Age

Emily Mullin

Let’s Talk About the Super El Niño and Climate Change

Hot Stuff

Let’s Talk About the Super El Niño and Climate Change

Fernanda González

California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke

Burning Up

California’s Tallest and Most Iconic Trees Are Getting Heatstroke

Neel Dhanesha

Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition

Cosmic Pom-Pom

Humans Watched This Supernova Explode Nearly a Millennium Ago. Now You Can See It in High Definition

Jorge Garay

NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public

Disk Space

NASA Just Made Nearly 1 TB of Artemis II Data Available to the Public

Jorge Garay

A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up

Up in Smoke

A New Mexico Community Was a Place to Build a Life. Then a Hypersonic Missile Factory Showed Up

Yulia Almazova

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Mirror, Mirror

Life Is Asymmetric. The Scientists Who Figured Out Why Won the 2026 Nobel Prize in Chemistry

Fernanda González

A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology

Straight Outta Space

A Scientist Working on the ‘IceCube’ Neutrino Detector Explains the Nobel Prize–Winning Technology

Javier Carbajal

The Atlantic’s Near-Record Hurricane Drought Is About to End

Outlook Cloudy

The Atlantic’s Near-Record Hurricane Drought Is About to End

Brian Kahn

The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light

Beam Me Up

The Science Behind the Nobel-Winning Technology That Controls Neurons With Light

Fernanda González

A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat

Flow State

A Startup Has a Plan to Make Water From Air Using Data Centers’ Waste Heat

Brian Kahn and Molly Taft

You Probably Aren’t Going to Get the Plague

This Is Fine

You Probably Aren’t Going to Get the Plague

Emily Mullin

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

Closed System

OpenAI Is Pissing Off a Bunch of Mathematicians—Again

Isabella Ward

A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs

Making Waves

A New Neurotech Startup Launches to Rival Sam Altman’s Merge Labs

Emily Mullin

Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever

Awwwwww, Baby

Astronomers Confirm Discovery of the Youngest Known Exoplanet Ever

Teruyuki Hayakawa

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

Power Play

Rural Data Centers Are in for a Big Federal Tax Break

Molly Taft

Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior

Heating Up

Elusive ‘Geoneutrinos’ Are Building a New Map of Earth’s Volatile Interior

James Dinneen