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Shiny Glass Skyscrapers Are a Hot Thing. Literally.

CHICO HARLAN, ZUNAIRA SAIEED AND MIRA ROJANASAKUL

They’re transforming cities with million-dollar views and a message of modernity. But climate change makes cooling them tricky and costly.

Neutrinos Are Everywhere. A Physicist Explains.

STEVEN KURUTZ

Dr. Francis Halzen, the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physics, sheds some light on the mysterious, subatomic particles that whiz through us everyday.

Snakes that cartwheel, vultures that groan, a mysterious Martian moon, and more

This week in science we check out gymnastic snakes, chatty vultures and missions to faraway moons

What is trypophobia? Why some people's skin crawls when they see tiny holes

Research suggests this aversion is driven by an instinct to avoid disease

How birds can quietly spread a severe form of pneumonia

Everyday activities, from visiting zoos to cleaning bird droppings, can expose you to a potentially dangerous infection

Anthropic’s S-1 filing spotlights safety fears and science ambitions ahead of IPO

Anthropic is preparing to go public, and new documents show how the lab hopes to control its technology while also pushing the limits of what AI can do

The Science Behind Your Reaction to Art

MICHAEL JANOFSKY

The Honolulu Museum of Art is showing how art can influence thinking, perspective and mood, in an exhibition that is part of a trend by museums to mix science and art.

Gaze at the Cosmic Dawn in Dizzying Detail

KATRINA MILLER

A new simulation offers a highly immersive look at what happened during the first couple of billion years following the Big Bang.

What Amy Poehler’s New Series, ‘Dig,’ Gets Right About Archaeology

STELLA RAINE CHU

To get the science right, classical archaeologists, who excavate the world of the ancient Mediterranean, consulted on the show, which also stars Hugh Laurie.

Why we’ll never have another Black Death

The death of a worker at a Russian plague lab was alarming, but the disease is extremely unlikely to become a worldwide problem as it has in the past

Underwater data centers may be coming to the U.S.—smack in the middle of endangered whale habitat

Ocean water could help dissipate the heat from data centers, but the infrastructure could threaten endangered whales