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New simulations shine a light on 300-year-old solar mystery.

Figure’s founder Brett Adcock says a new partnership with OpenAI could help its robots hold conversation and learn from its mistakes over time.

How scientists, volunteers, and incarcerated women are finding hope and metamorphosis through supporting butterflies.

Forest and fields change over time. Some very old hazelnuts shells can tell us how.

Despite toppling on its side during landing, Odysseus is outliving its 10-20 hour prognosis.

Recently discovered Danionella cerebrum is less than an inch long.

Apple has officially scrapped its multibillion dollar autonomous EV plans to focus on AI.

Coats, boots, and other winter gear is expensive. Store it properly to avoid bad smells, bugs, and preventable damage.

The plastic industry pushed recycling as a solution to waste, while internally dismissing it as technically and economically unviable.

Plus other weird things we learned this week.

Diagnosing ‘warming winter syndrome’ as summerlike heat sweeps into central and eastern US.

Forensic science might get a boost from an unlikely source.

Many turbines rely on high-demand rare-earth minerals. A new Department of Energy program aims to keep them out of landfills.

There have been 35 reported cases of the highly-contagious disease so far this year.

The new service can boost productivity—when used responsibly!

Here’s how a new real-time data system could improve wild tiger habitats—and the health of our planet.

These new creatures were discovered thousands of feet under the Pacific.

Built on GM's Ultium architecture, Honda developed the SUV faster than it could have alone.

The tiny satellites were spotted circling our solar system’s most far flung planets.

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