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Alaska’s top-heavy glaciers are approaching an irreversible tipping point

Enlarge / Taku Glacier is one of many that begin in the Juneau Icefield.Mauricio Handler / Getty Images The melting of...

Egalitarian oddity found in the Neolithic

Enlarge / A skeleton found during 1950's excavations at the Barman site.Université de Genève Did ancient people practice equality? While stereotypes...

The greening of planes, trains, and automobiles

EnlargePetmal / Getty Images As the world races to decarbonize everything from the electricity grid to industry, it faces particular problems...

Rocket Report: Firefly delivers for NASA; Polaris Dawn launching this month

Enlarge / Four kerosene-fueled Reaver engines power Firefly's Alpha rocket off the pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.Firefly Aerospace Welcome...

What we know about microdosing candy illnesses as death investigation underway

Enlarge / The Birthday Cake flavored bar. One person may have died from eating Diamond Shruumz microdosing candies, which were recalled...

Tool preventing AI mimicry cracked; artists wonder what’s next

EnlargeAurich Lawson | Getty Images For many artists, it's a precarious time to post art online. AI image generators keep getting...

Swarm of dusty young stars found around our galaxy’s central black hole

Enlarge / The Milky Way's central black hole is in a very crowded neighborhood.UMass/D.Wang/NASA/STScI Supermassive black holes are ravenous. Clumps of...

384,000 sites pull code from sketchy code library recently bought by Chinese firm

EnlargeGetty Images More than 384,000 websites are linking to a site that was caught last week performing a supply-chain attack that...

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil

Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained.Dongju Zhang’s group (Lanzhou University) For well over a...

Can’t stop your cat from scratching the furniture? Science has some tips

Enlarge / Ariel and Caliban learned as kittens that scratching posts were fair game for their natural claw-sharpening instincts.Sean Carroll Ah,...

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