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How the new FDA-approved ingredient bemotrizinol enhances sunscreen protection

Dermatologists and skincare aficionados are excited for the U.S. to finally get a new, more protective sunscreen filter after more than 20 years of regulatory roadblocks. Here's how bemotrizinol works

The surprising science behind the 2026 World Cup grass

How scientists are engineering the perfect World Cup pitch—one so flawless that players never notice it

The World Cup could be a petri dish for disease. Wastewater could sound the alarm

As millions of soccer fans pack FIFA World Cup venues, public health scientists created a wastewater monitoring network to forecast potential disease threats—from measles to Ebola

How Canadian rock duo Angine de Poitrine play with neurobiology and physics to make viral music

Angine de Poitrine don't abide by the usual rules of Western music, using their own custom-built guitar to strike notes that shouldn't exist

How FIFA is engineering natural grass for the 2026 World Cup

FIFA is building temporary natural-grass fields meant to play consistently across 16 stadiums in three countries

Cats, unlike dogs and toddlers, help you only when it helps them

Dogs spontaneously aid struggling humans the way young children do—whereas cats wait until they stand to benefit

Largest whale ‘graveyard’ discovered, with skeletons spanning 5 million years

The fossilized remains of more than 450 whales have amassed along a 750-mile-long stretch of the Indian Ocean floor

Indonesia Landslides Devastated Endangered Orangutans, Study Finds

CATRIN EINHORN

More than 5 percent of the species is estimated to have been lost when a climate-fueled storm unleashed torrents of water, mud and debris.

How to build kids’ ‘cognitive endurance’ in an age of distraction

The ability to run "mental marathons" is a skill children can learn through simple, but dedicated, practice

How to tell if your dog is left-pawed or right-pawed, according to science

A step-by-step guide to the "Doginburgh Inventory," a new pawedness test developed by dog behavior researchers

NASA Crew-12 Commander Captures Snaky Southern Lights From Space Station

JOHNNY DIAZ

The footage of the aurora over Earth’s Southern Hemisphere was shared on Sunday by Jessica Meir, commander of NASA’s Crew-12 mission.

AI scores a ‘C–’ on its hardest math test yet

The second batch of "First Proof" problems is meant to evaluate AI's usefulness for research-level math. The best model got six or seven of the 10 questions basically right

Report of gene-edited human embryos sparks worries about the technology’s future uses

Eight years after a Chinese scientist's report of gene-edited babies shocked the world, U.S. scientists reported editing embryos not meant for pregnancies using a more precise technique

The U.S. is getting hit with severe stormy weather—here’s what’s stewing in the atmosphere

Cold fronts colliding with warm, humid air from the Gulf of Mexico could cause dangerous weather conditions, forecasters say

Nearly Everyone, Everywhere, Veers Left When Walking

RACHEL NUWER

Researchers are at a loss for why people across cultures and ages, regardless of their dominant hand, have a natural bias toward wandering in a counterclockwise direction.