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Ancient Milky Way Merger

This artist’s concept, released on Aug. 17, 2026, depicts a collision between ou...

APOD: 2026 August 20 – The Elephant’s Trunk in Cepheus

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 20 – The… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions I...

Human-Related Microbes May Survive Moon’s South Pole, N...

Lee esta historia en español aquí. Some of Earth’s microbes likely to hitch a ri...

Why Each Octopus Arm Has a Mind of Its Own

Two-thirds of an octopus’s neurons are in its arms—each operating independently—...

AI Is Dead. Organoids Are Alive

Mini human brains are being grown in labs all over the world. Soon, they could o...

Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and the Misreading of Science Fi...

Beyond Elon Musk’s interpretation of The Odyssey, Silicon Valley leaders have of...

Big Tech Wants to Harvest Your Thoughts

Silicon Valley companies are already working on neurotechnology products that tr...

In a Heat Wave, Schizophrenia Is So Much Deadlier Than ...

People with schizophrenia face a perfect storm of dangers on a hotter planet.

5 Weird Tricks for Having a Brain

From the multibrained octopus to the bitty brain organoid, we’re all just infere...

Her Brain Was Broken. It Was Fixed With Sound—Not a Sca...

One woman’s meth addiction was so bad, the only option left might have been brai...

Perseids Meteor Shower

The constellation Orion is framed by two Perseid meteors in this photo from Aug....

For West Virginia Engineer, Home Is Where the Heart Is…...

Growing up in Grafton, West Virginia, engrossed in Star Wars and all things scie...

NASA’s 737 Reveals New Paint

NASA’s 737 aircraft was painted this week in Oklahoma as it progresses with modi...

A Sunflower’s View of Totality

The Moon slid between the Sun and Earth to produce a stunning celestial show vis...

Volunteer Develops Machine-Learning Tool to Identify Ra...

Certain kinds of clouds are misbehaving – appearing more often and lower in the ...

APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total Solar Eclipse from Greenland

APOD Science APOD APOD: 2026 August 14 – Total… Today’s APOD Archive Submissions...

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