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How heat makes it harder for students to learn

As temperatures rise, the evidence is clear that heat is eroding students' ability to learn

Why Bangladesh’s measles outbreak is a cautionary tale for the U.S.

As Bangladesh faces a deadly measles outbreak, experts assess what it would take for the U.S. to reach similar levels

How much longer will the sun shine?

Our sun is on a long, strange trip to its eventual demise. Here are the key stops along the way

Indonesia is moving its capital. Will a forest pay the price?

Filmmaker and journalist Leah Varjacques takes listeners inside an Indonesian forest that's quickly changing as the country attempts to move its capital city

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Telescope glimpses its first cosmic light

The space telescope is set to reveal thousands of new exoplanets and scour the universe for signs of dark matter and energy

What changing ‘Lake Ontario’ to ‘Lake America’ means for weather forecasts

The National Weather Service is speeding ahead with changing the name of the Great Lake

Rising Seas Are Gobbling Up Beaches Around the World. A.I. Might Restore Them.

QUINN GLABICKI

An experiment with roots at M.I.T. used A.I. and satellite images to grow a coastline in the Maldives. More projects are planned for Boston and Miami.

NASA Telescope Helps Scientists Find a New Type of X-ray Object

KENNETH CHANG

The discovery of “hypersoft” X-ray beacons could help solve some mysteries about the universe.

What does OpenAI’s blockbuster mathematics proof mean for the real world?

OpenAI's claimed proof of the Navier-Stokes problem is a mathematical tour de force, but any real-world applications may be years away—if they ever arrive at all

Why AI is speeding up scientific research but not lab experiments

A new report from Google, Google DeepMind and M.I.T. finds that researchers are using AI—a lot. It's just not helping as much in the lab

New Species of Cat Discovered for First Time in a Century

KATE GOLEMBIEWSKI

The species, called a tilcayo, is smaller than a house cat and lives in the cloud forests of the Andes Mountains in Bolivia.

Will A.I. Kill Us? Can It Hack My Bank Account? Your A.I. Questions Answered

CADE METZ, DYLAN FREEDMAN AND K. R. CALLAWAY

Nearly 1,000 readers sent us their questions about artificial intelligence, its potential and its potential risks.

Video Shows a San Diego Dog Seeming to Greet an Intruder. Why Didn’t He Bark?

MICHAEL LEVENSON

Dog behavior experts offered a variety of explanations for why Nash the golden retriever wagged his tail and carried a toy near a man who broke into his owner’s home.

Mothers’ Intrusive Thoughts Are Mostly Benign. Lindsay Clancy’s Case Is an Exception.

ELLEN BARRY

Experts say that after childbirth, intrusive thoughts are common and mostly benign. Lindsay Clancy’s story provides a disturbing exception.

Could brain-inspired computers run on the same amount of power as a human brain?

The human brain uses about the same amount of wattage as a lightbulb