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Thank you, co-existing microorganism.

May's full moon will appear full all weekend and beyond, but will peak on Monday (May 12). Here's everything you need to know about it.

Two huge theories go head to head.

ALMA observations of carbon monoxide emission from 15 protoplanetary disks reveal a stunning variety of gas structures, including gaps, rings and spirals.

A huge step forward.

Love changes everything – but how quickly?

Irrational tendencies — including the hot hand, base-rate neglect and sunk cost fallacy — commonly show up in AI systems, calling into question how useful they actually are.

The findings shed light on the ancient people who lived in western Hungary, whose identity continues to confound scholars.

Astronomers used the James Webb Space Telescope for the largest and deepest sample of galaxy groups, some of which were up to 12 billion light-years away.

Pandas are descended from carnivores. Why do they eat an (almost) exclusively vegan diet?

You might be a runner after all.

Flourishing is more than just being happy, and a new global study finds some countries are doing better than others when it comes to overall well-being.

"Much more pervasive throughout the brain than we'd thought."

Altermagnets, which exhibit momentum-dependent spin splitting without spin–orbit coupling (SOC) or net magnetization, have recently attracted significant international attention.

Catch some rays before you rise.

Physicists have created a model of a black hole bomb in the lab for the first time, verifying a theory first proposed more than 50 years ago.

It's not just watching body weight.

The Croc's Eye and Whirlpool galaxies shine in astrophotography captured by Vermont-based night sky enthusiast Dr. Michele Hernandez Bayliss.

Even biologists only capture a glimpse of the lives of whales. There are still many species whose lives are largely a mystery, particularly the deep diving whales.

The CL1 computer is the first in the world that combines human neurons with a silicon chip. It could be used in disease modeling and drug discovery before it expires after six months.

Little drone, big bolt.

This week, archaeologists identified depictions of the Milky Way galaxy in ancient Egyptian imagery. A mathematician found a new way to solve higher polynomial equations, one of algebra's oldest challenges. And climbing shoe abrasion releases chemicals that could be a health hazard for indoor climbers.

We found a way in.

Bone collectors feast on dead and dying critters caught in a spider's web and then decorate themselves with the legs, wings and heads of their victims to avoid detection by their spider hosts.

Four physicists at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in Israel, have unraveled the mechanical process behind the growth of roses as they blossom into their unique shape. In their study published in the journal Science, Yafei Zhang, Omri Cohen, Michael Moshe and Eran Sharon adopted a multipronged approach to learn the secrets behind rose blossom growth. Qinghao Cui and Lishuai Jin, with the University of Hong Kong have published a Perspective piece in the same journal issue outlining the work.