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New brain-computer interfaces turn attempted speech into words and can speak them in a voice resembling the user’s own.

Guidelines for designing coasters don’t reflect the latest science about what types of movement the brain can withstand.

Farmers in Yunnan Province, China, alerted researchers to the humongous fungus.

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history.

Anthropic says Claude helped a scientist plan potentially risky bird flu research, a case that highlights questions about AI’s growing role in biology.

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the power of the human voice, hopeful advances in treating stiff person syndrome and new controversy about using AI in mathematics.

A viral infection from millions of years ago may have influenced chimp brain evolution through DNA leftovers in the genome.

In people being treated for blood cancer, consuming sugar while on antibiotics boosted harm to the diversity of the gut microbiome.

Switching to an electric stove from a lung-irritating gas one may improve asthma symptoms.

The force exerted by a gas usually results from many atoms or molecules at once.

Vincent van Gogh'spainted the iconic work in the summer of 1889.

If given the green light by the FDA, a CAR T cell therapy from Kyverna Therapeutics would be the first approved treatment for stiff person syndrome.

An AI ‘virtual author’ can help scientists use a paper’s methods on new data.

A possible reason for the overdose deaths drop is more use of naloxone, which reverses opioid overdoses.

This year’s photomicrography contest captured the wonders of the very small, from flying ink droplets to the most adorable jumping spider you've ever seen.

Smithsonian geologist Gabriela Farfan studies corals, gemstones and other minerals for clues to changing oceans and environments.

People are more likely to mimic — or even surpass — rule breakers than rule followers, a study finds.

Error correction creates qubits that glitch only 5 out of a million times, the first step toward a new phase for quantum computing.

People who have lost the ability to talk are finding new voices with technology.

New videos offer a closer look at a rare and bizarre escape behavior in some Southeast Asian snakes.

Japan’s MMX mission will be the first to the moons of Mars and it aims to bring back precious rock samples — perhaps even indirectly from Mars.

New simulations reveal which battle moves the skulls of horned dinosaurs could take — and which might have been a very bad idea.

We’ve studied the moon with robotic spacecraft for decades.

Solve the crossword from our November 2026 issue, in which we cultivate an understanding of growth curves.

With the proliferation of fancy salts and changing dietary habits, there are signs people aren’t getting enough of the crucial mineral iodine.

An excavation at an iconic Neandertal burial site uncovers evidence for one individual's potential fatal wound as well as an injury endured for years.

The technology could get those with ALS, Parkinson’s disease and brain injuries “talking” again.

As AI churns out mathematical proofs, a DeepMind study raises a bigger question: What do we lose when we focus only on the answers?

Researchers made a rat’s front-leg movement trigger its back leg.

On November 18, Voyager 1 will reach one light-day from Earth.

Turning invisible is a handy superpower in fiction — we don’t see you, Sue Storm!

Theories that aquatic foraging drove human evolution have a fraught past.

Losing your voice can feel like losing part of yourself.

Scientists know APOE4 raises Alzheimer’s risk.

In heat wave-like temperatures, coast redwoods' photosynthesis slows down, which may put one of Earth's most efficient carbon storers in jeopardy.

The rise and fall of a continent-spanning cliff may help explain a mysterious 1-billion-year gap in Earth’s geologic history, a new study suggests.

An icy window into the cosmos, a light switch for the brain and solving the mystery of mirror image molecules all took home the top prize.

Scientists are using a variety of methods to study why Kilauea has repeatedly spewed lava fountains since late 2024.

Participants in two small trials lost dangerous fat around their internal organs.

Optogenetics, recognized by the 2026 medicine Nobel, makes cells respond to light, including eye cells that normally relay signals to the brain.

Fresh boulder tracks on Mars could reveal how a quake shook the planet and help scientists detect future tremors from orbit.

A decades-old claim linking caregiving stress to risk of death has stuck around, hampering research into its benefits.

Herugavialis is the new name for a fossil found in the same rocks that built the Great Sphinx.

Neuroscientist Susana Carmona’s book guides readers through a new mom’s changing brain.

Bigger bodies and wider beaks help birds like the bare-throated bellbird belt out calls louder than a jackhammer, but why such volume evolved remains unclear.

The human brain is built to hear voices.

One theory points to a long-awaited supersymmetric particle called a ‘higgsino.’

Finding the potential planet hints that our sun’s death could lead to the creation of new worlds.

Microblazars — a miniature version of blazars — may be responsible for mysterious ultra-high-energy particles.

A waterborne pathogen flourishes while toads shelter underground.