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The message goes out at two in the morning, to the one thing that always answers. Not a friend, not a crisis line: a chatbot. It replies in seconds, never sounds tired, and does not judge. That is a…

Perinatal mortality fell across 17 low- and middle-income countries by a pooled 1.08 deaths per 1,000 births each year (95% CI −1.40 to −0.76) over three decades, according to a study published Aug.…

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have run superconducting single-photon detectors whose sensing wire is a tenth of a millimeter wide, more than 100 times wider than…

All 15 DNA sequences that researchers designed with neural networks switched a gene on in the tissue they were meant for when tested in mouse embryos, according to a paper published Aug. 25 in Nature…

A thunderclap does two things at once. It rolls across the sky, and it pushes down. Part of that acoustic energy hits the ground and keeps going, converting into seismic waves that ripple through the…

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has placed a clinical hold on RGX-121, an experimental gene therapy for Hunter syndrome, and its developer says it no longer expects to resubmit the licensing…

Server racks do not usually need plumbing. The one at the National University of Singapore, demonstrated to guests on 6 August 2026 and announced on 17 August, has it in every unit: pumps, filters, a…

For decades, the story of Alzheimer's has been told from the outside in: sticky plaques between neurons, tangled fibers within them, a slow siege on the brain's wiring. But the plaques and tangles…

Picture a kangaroo the weight of the biggest reds alive today, but built wrong for the part: too stocky, too muscular, and by most reckoning barely able to hop. Protemnodon tumbuna seems to have…

Stand anywhere on the Tibetan Plateau and the word that comes to mind is flat: a cold, thin-aired tableland averaging more than 4,500 metres above sea level, earning its nickname as the Roof of the…

The physics of climate change runs on decades and centuries. Politics runs on the last hot summer. A new modeling study asks what happens when you wire the two together and let the short clock start…

ALLATRA Global Research Center has published the first issue of ALLATRA Natural Science Review, a quarterly the Center describes as an interdisciplinary journal covering the natural sciences and…