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Oysters As Large As Cheese Plates: How New Yorkers Are Reclaiming Their Harbour’s Heritage

Over the course of 10 years, the Billion Oyster Project, one of New York’s most ambitious rewilding initiatives, has planted 150 million larvae in its harbour. Did it work?

The Bitter Aftertaste of “Technical Sweetness”

Echoing Frankenstein’s story, the creation of the atomic bomb illustrates how scientific zeal can blind researchers to foreseeable dangers.

The Amateur’s Guide to Astrophotography

Want to take pro-level Northern Lights and Milky Way photos on vacation? Here’s how.

Is Slow Living the Solution As Delhi Battles Air Crisis?

Rarekar Kamlakant, a 62-year-old who works at a luxurious property of Coco Shambala in his village in Maharashtra, doesn’t look a day over forty. Not just that, he can effortlessly trek the hills around his village and walk miles without breaking a sweat.

Fall Hasn’t Really Felt Like Fall This Year

If you feel cheated out of crisp autumn weather this year, know you’re not alone.

Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

Generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems may be able to produce some eye-opening results but new research shows they don’t have a coherent understanding of the world and real rules.

Nuclear Fusion’s New Idea: An Off-the-Shelf Stellarator

For a machine that’s designed to replicate a star, the world’s newest stellarator is a surprisingly humble-looking apparatus. The kitchen-table-size contraption sits atop stacks of bricks in a cinder-block room at the Princeton Plasma Physics Laboratory (PPPL) in Princeton, N.J.

The Quest to Build a Star on Earth

The quest for fusion energy — the clean, potentially limitless source that could end mankind’s power woes — began as an answer to an old question, one we’ve been asking since we first raised our heads toward the sky. It was the mid-19th century.

When is anxiety normal and when is it a disorder? A psychiatrist explains.

Is it normal to feel this anxious all the time? How do I know if it’s too much? These are questions many of my patients ask. Anxiety affects all of us and can be thought of as tension or worry about a situation or stressor.

The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

DNA samples from one of the world’s largest and oldest plants — a quaking aspen tree (Populus tremuloides) in Utah called Pando — have helped researchers to determine its age and revealed clues about its evolutionary history.

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All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.

The clearest picture yet of our “last universal common ancestor” suggests it was a relatively complex organism living 4.2 billion years ago, a time long considered too harsh for life to flourish.

We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

Empowering Robert F. Kennedy Jr. will test one of American public health’s greatest successes. Produced by ElevenLabs and News Over Audio (NOA) using AI narration.

Atlas of cells transforms understanding of human body

An ambitious plan to map all 37 trillion cells in the human body is transforming understanding of how our bodies work, scientists report. The received wisdom said we were built from around 200 types of cell – such as heart muscle or nerve cells.

The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery

The 2024 awards offer a unique look into the present and future of scientific innovation, including the rise of AI.

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

As the world struggles to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, researchers are seeking practical, economical ways to capture carbon dioxide and convert it into useful products, such as transportation fuels, chemical feedstocks, or even building materials.

Curated by our editorsStories to fuel your mind

Oysters As Large As Cheese Plates: How New Yorkers Are Reclaiming Their Harbour’s Heritage

The Bitter Aftertaste of “Technical Sweetness”

The Amateur’s Guide to Astrophotography

Is Slow Living the Solution As Delhi Battles Air Crisis?

Fall Hasn’t Really Felt Like Fall This Year

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Large language models not fit for real-world use, scientists warn — even slight changes cause their world models to collapse

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The Quest to Build a Star on Earth

When is anxiety normal and when is it a disorder? A psychiatrist explains.

The world’s oldest tree? Genetic analysis traces evolution of iconic Pando forest

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All Life on Earth Today Descended From a Single Cell. Meet LUCA.

We’re About to Find Out How Much Americans Like Vaccines

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The Nobel Prizes Tell a Story About Scientific Discovery

MIT engineers make converting CO2 into useful products more practical

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