Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain

Ancient Scythians had cultural roots in Siberia | A royal tomb points to eastern influences on the horse-riding Scythian herders and warriors

X-rays from nuclear blasts could defend Earth from asteroids

Unintentional emissions from Starlink satellites could obscure the view for radio telescopes

A thousands-year-old log demonstrates how burying wood can fight climate change

Northern sea robins use six crablike legs to dig in sand and find buried prey with a sense much like taste

Climate change could double U.S. temperature-linked deaths by mid-century

Talking to a chatbot may weaken someone’s belief in conspiracy theories, researchers report in Science

Scientists have just turned giant panda skin cells into stem cells

A study of a woman’s brain before, during and after pregnancy revealed sweeping neural changes, some of which stuck around months after her baby was born

Ancient DNA unveils a previously unknown line of Neandertals that evolved apart from other European Neandertals, researchers report

Reactive dust from Great Salt Lake may have health consequences, including inflammation

Researchers propose methods to spot primordial black holes

Mega El Niños kicked off the world’s worst mass extinction, researchers report in Science

A nuclear clock prototype hints at ultraprecise timekeeping | The device could allow for new tests of fundamental physics

Elinzanetant, a nonhormonal drug, reduced the frequency of hot flashes at least 50 percent in clinical trial patients, researchers report in JAMA

The key ingredient in weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic may reduce opioid overdoses

Zapping sand to create rock could help curb coastal erosion

This spiky fossil shows what early mollusks looked like

Prescribing widespread antibiotics to children under age 5 in Niger reduced mortality among infants, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine

Mantle waves buoy continents upward, forming prominent landforms far from active plate boundaries

Hairs on the feet of Mexican free-tailed bats fluoresce under UV light, researchers report in Mammalian Biology

Spacecraft studying the sun may have uncovered why solar winds are hotter and faster than expected

A distant quasar may have shut down galaxy formation within 16 million light-years of its vicinity

The asteroid that may have killed the dinosaurs came from beyond Jupiter, researchers report in Science

A newly approved ‘living drug’ could save more cancer patients’ lives

Orb weaver spiders manipulate trapped fireflies to lure in more prey, researchers report in Current Biology

Images of six Jupiter-sized worlds from the Webb telescope reveal new clues into how planets and stars form

Neurospora intermedia, a fast-growing fungus, is being used to turn food waste into gourmet desserts

Ocean heat in the Coral Sea is at its highest in four centuries, putting Australia’s Great Barrier Reef in danger

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