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Welcome back to the Abstract! Here are the studies this week that felt the heat, left their mark, survived a […]

For migrant workers trapped onboard Chinese distant water fishing fleets, cutting the fins off sharks as they writhe violently on

A colossal new sea predator named Tylosaurus rex has been identified from fossils found in Texas, revealing a brutal 43-foot-long

Growing numbers of people are seeking improbable cosmetic surgery based on chatbots’ recommendations Plastic surgeons are increasingly concerned about the

Even in 2026, there are still plenty of researchers who refuse to use AI to publish their research papers. Others

If you’ve been running headfirst into verification prompts seemingly everywhere you go online, you aren’t alone. Whether you’re jumping through

Scientists in Germany have demonstrated a startling new form of surveillance: identifying people using nothing more than ordinary WiFi signals.

The Ebola outbreak erupting from the Ituri province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo continues to escalate wildly, with

At least four Russian military satellites changed their orbits to match that of a Finnish-American radar surveillance satellite in the

By Stephan Rabanser, Sayash Kapoor, Rishi Bommasani, Andrew Schwartz, Arvind Narayanan At Google’s developer conference earlier this week, the company