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Why Drug Companies Are Rushing to Market Ketamine Medicines

ANDREW JACOBS

Spurred on by the Trump administration’s embrace of psychedelic medicine, researchers are experimenting with new — and not so new — forms of the anesthetic.

Germophobe Primates Want to Avoid Getting Sick, Too

RYAN GREEN

Some monkeys become significantly more cautious about food sources that appear contaminated after experiencing deadly outbreaks of disease.

America Mints a New National Park, Elevating an Arizonan ‘Sky Island’

RYLEY OBER

After years of bipartisan effort, the former Chiricahua National Monument, in southeast Arizona, has become the United States’ 64th national park.

Trump Ties Disaster Aid to Votes as Midterm Fight Heats Up

SCOTT DANCE

President Trump and Vice President JD Vance have dangled FEMA money to disaster-struck states during recent campaign rallies.

New superconducting chip aims to help tame fusion plasma

Researchers fed fusion data to a new chip to see whether it could spot signs that superhot plasma is about to go haywire

Ancient Egypt’s first female king revealed by long-lost royal seals

Ancient Egypt's first female ruler lived centuries before Nefertiti or Cleopatra

Alzheimer’s Researchers Look at an Unusual Data Point: Head Shape

CAROLYN Y. JOHNSON

Could the geometry of our brains increase the risk of Alzheimer’s disease? It’s a provocative question, but one that some scientists are beginning to explore.

Google Eyes Large ‘Virtual Power Plant’ for Data Centers

BRAD PLUMER

The tech giant is funding one of the nation’s largest “virtual power plants,” which would pay homes and businesses to adjust their energy use when grids are strained.

Earth and Mars May Have Formed in Weirdly Different Ways

ROBIN GEORGE ANDREWS

Chemical clues and computer simulations suggest the two rocky planets have unique origin stories.

I.U.C.N. Red List Classifies Most Shallow Coral Reefs as Critically Endangered

CATRIN EINHORN

If climate change continues apace, 96 percent of shallow coral reef ecosystems may collapse within 50 years, including in Australia’s Great Barrier reef.

The Overlapping Plagues Quietly Devastating American Forests

CATRIN EINHORN

Trees are suffering one devastating epidemic after another, unleashed by insects and bacteria that enter the country because of global trade.

Data centers are a target of modern warfare. How do we secure the infrastructure that runs our digital lives?

Attacks against data centers in Europe and the Middle East are raising questions as to how we protect the infrastructure on which our digital lives depend

Astronomers unlock a mystery hidden in van Gogh’s The Starry Night

A misidentified constellation could revise the timeline for Vincent van Gogh's creation of his iconic painting

The inside story behind OpenAI’s million-dollar math proof

AI's solution to the Navier-Stokes problem, and the details of how it happened, preview a chaotic future for math—and the world

This implant burns up excess blood sugar with electricity

A new USB-sized device, tested in mice, could help people with type 2 diabetes better manage glucose levels