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Why Delhi feels hotter than what temperatures show

We spent a day out in the city with a thermal camera, recording surface temperatures indoors and outdoors.

The hallucinogenic mushroom that contains no known psychedelic

Researchers have sequenced the genome of *Lanmaoa asiatica*, a mushroom in Yunnan, China that causes vivid…

Did a medieval flying monk spot Halley's comet, twice? It's complicated

University of Leicester historian thinks Eilmer of Malmesbury saw two different comets: in 1018 and 1066

Measles surge in Utah sparks fears US could undo decades of progress

Utah is experiencing a measles surge that has raised concerns about the United States potentially reversing decades of…

Dangerous hormone-disrupting chemicals found in US breast milk samples

A peer-reviewed study of breast milk samples from Seattle mothers found alarming levels of hormone-disrupting chemicals…

A 'cold blob' in the Atlantic could be a sign of AMOC shutdown – CNN

A mysterious "cold blob" in the North Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland has cooled by nearly 1 degree Celsius since 1900…

SpaceX, Adding It Up – The $235B Cash Gap

SpaceX has disclosed approximately $235 billion in cash commitments through 2030 but plans to raise only $50-75 billion…

Consciousness likely not unique to earthlings, paper says

# Summary Philosophers Eric Schwitzgebel and Jeremy Pober argue that consciousness is likely not unique to Earth-based…

4 things to know about the new sunscreen ingredient the FDA approved

FDA OKs first new sunscreen ingredient in more than 25 years

The FDA has approved bemotrizinol, the first new sunscreen ingredient in over 25 years, which protects against both UVA…

Ancient genome duplications laid the foundations of complex brains

Why does paper fold so well?

A BBC CrowdScience episode explores why paper holds creases so well by examining the papermaking process and paper's…

What Happens to an Economy When It's Too Hot to Work?

Global density and biomass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks

Treating pancreatic tumours may have revealed cancer's master switch

Threads of underground fungal networks are long enough to reach beyond the Solar System

Researchers have quantified the length and mass of arbuscular mycorrhizal fungal networks globally.

Cosmodial Sky Atlas

Where Did Earth Get Its Oceans? Maybe It Made Them Itself

Scientists have long debated whether Earth's water came from comets or asteroids, but recent evidence suggests the…

CRISPR Tech Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including "Undruggable" Cancers

Watch: Four UFO videos newly declassified by US government

The eyewitness footage shows bright orbs in the sky over an undisclosed location in the northeastern US.

European sunscreens are safer than American

European sunscreens offer better protection than American ones because they're regulated as cosmetics rather than drugs,…

Maxproof

MaxProof, a new framework for mathematical proof generation, achieves human gold-medal performance on the IMO 2025…

Rocket Report: Nova moving through test campaign; SpaceX IPO launches Friday

"If I needed to fly on another vehicle, what would that look like?"

First working nuclear clock heralds a new era in timekeeping

A clock based on radioactive thorium atoms realises a long-held ambition, demonstrating a technology that could…

Report on an Unidentified Space Station

An expedition makes an emergency landing on an unidentified, seemingly abandoned space station designed to accommodate…

Biological Evolution and Information Acquisition

The article explores how biological evolution acquires information efficiently by using modularity—similar to how…

This Jacket Pulls Drinking Water from Thin Air

Engineers at the University of Texas at Austin have developed a jacket that harvests drinking water directly from humid…

Global map reveals the vast scale of underground fungal networks

Our soils are teeming with networks of fungi, and we're starting to understand how important they are

Have we finally worked out how Venus flytraps snap shut?

It was widely thought that the movement of water through Venus flytrap cells caused the trap to close, but detailed…