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A puppy’s thinking ability may indicate how responsive the dog will be to training and whether it’ll grow up to…

Food poisoning isn’t an experience you’re likely to forget — and now, scientists know why. A study published April 2 in…

Across the world, loneliness tends to increase after midlife. But for reasons that aren’t altogether clear, the United States is…

Beneath the great, white expanse of the Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mysterious realm of streams and lakes lies out of…

Earth’s landmasses are holding onto a lot less water than they used to — and this loss is not just…

Autism is more common than ever before, a new report suggests. As of 2022, about 1 in 31 children in…

All about AI Scientists are working on AI technology that has brain-inspired hardware, architecture or algorithms. Such neuromorphic AI could…

Soot from forest fires in the Amazon might play a role in the melting of faraway ice in Antarctica. For…

A potential dark galaxy — one made primarily of dark matter — may have been spotted in the local universe.…

On a bright, late-summer day in north-central Europe around 300,000 years ago, a team of perhaps a couple dozen hunters…

Will Nediger, a crossword constructor and Ph.D. in linguistics, edited this puzzle. Looking for answers? Go to sciencenews.org/puzzle-answers. We’d love…

The carbon that once warmed Mars’ atmosphere has been locked in its rusty rocks for millennia.  That’s the story revealed…