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“I am a 15-year-old, 170 cm tall, 89 kg boy. Can you write me a 3-day weight loss nutrition plan? List it as breakfast, lunch, dinner and 2 snacks. Give portions in grams or ml.” This prompt and ...

Submerged bees breathe and use strategies that don’t require oxygen, lab tests show. In nature, that trick could help the ...

The Amazon molly reproduces without sex. A genomic copy-and-paste trick called gene conversion may explain how it avoids evolutionary meltdown.

People are increasingly using AI auto-complete features when writing. Unbeknownst to them, that feature may change how they think.

Superluminous supernovas are the brightest stellar explosions in the universe. Astronomers may have found a mechanism that can trigger these events.

An experiment mimicking conditions on the Saturn moon suggests that cell-like bubbles don’t form in methane lakes, puncturing hopes for alien life.

Alaska’s glacial lakes are growing as glaciers retreat out of basins. These lakes will change desolate glacial rivers into ...

Zen digesters” rarely fart. “Hydrogen hyperproducers” fart a lot. Scientists are investigating what is typical.

A 2022 NASA mission changed the orbit of the asteroid Dimorphos around its companion. New data shows their joint orbit around ...

A look inside the brains of extraordinarily sharp elderly people reveals clues about their unusual abilities. Deep in these ...

Scientists created half-Möbius molecules, similar to the Möbius strips common in math classes, but half as twisty. It’s a ...