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Illustration: Risto Avramovski/The GuardianToday, so-called techno-optimists fill the ranks of Silicon Valley billionaires. They proclaim a bright future for humanity…

This story was supported by a grant from the Pulitzer Center and co-published with the Post and Courier. On July…

Almost 150 workers from the National Science Foundation (NSF) have lambasted Donald Trump’s cuts to the agency as “politically motivated…

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.You might not know this, but Scientific American is a great…

Jonah FisherBBC environment correspondentJonah Fisher/BBCBetween May and July 2025 10,000 tests for water pollution at the Environment Agency’s Starcross laboratory…

The federal government is full of scientists who lend their expertise to key decisions about our food, medicines, environment, health…

Scientists are beginning to understand that ageing is not a simply linear process. Instead, recent research appears to show that…

Ask a chatbot if it’s conscious, and it will likely say no—unless it’s Anthropic’s Claude 4. “I find myself genuinely…

When a schoolboy running on a beach on the island of Sanday in Orkney last year came across the timbers…

Millions Swelter Under Relentless Heat Dome Smothering Eastern U.S.High humidity and low overnight temperatures will put tens of millions of…