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Not all microbes are villains—many are vital to keeping us healthy. Researchers have created a world-first database that tracks beneficial […]

Seeing plastic trash while hiking inspired a Rutgers chemist to rethink why synthetic plastics last forever while natural polymers don’t.

Scientists have discovered a rogue planet roaming the Milky Way after combining observations from Earth and a space telescope. This

Researchers using China’s “artificial sun” fusion reactor have broken through a long-standing density barrier in fusion plasma. The experiment confirmed

Welcome back to the Abstract, and Happy New Year! Here are the studies this week that stoked the flames, cooled

Eduardo Filgueiras/Unsplash This year, Australian drowning deaths reached their worst level in three decades. Tragically, 357 drownings were reported between

Protest over climate crisis and AI has cut power to tens of thousands of homes which may take days to

Amidst mostly unfounded fears that artificial intelligence is coming for our jobs, it turns out there’s one gig AI is

In mid-December 2025, the editors of Merriam-Webster’s dictionary chose “slop” as their word of the year. Their definition: “digital content

In a new interview with The Financial Times, Yann LeCun, one of the so-called godfathers of AI, finally dished on