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Tiny genetic sequences in a mother’s bacteria seem to hop into the infant's bacteria, perhaps ensuring a healthy microbiome later in life.

A reef off the coast of Honduras should be a disaster. Instead it’s thriving.

What language AIs make up for in efficiency they lack in humanity.

One question for Paul Sutter, a theoretical cosmologist at Stony Brook University.

A physician diagnoses the problem with medical notes—with a prescription for change.

The best defense can be learned from the evolution of the animal immune system.

An inside look at efforts to save rare and endangered species in the Dominican Republic.

In 12 minutes, a landslide, tsunami, and flood devastated a valley in Canada.

One question for Joseph Silk, an astrophysicist at Johns Hopkins University.

The defining problem in the search for ET.

Researchers discover that to sharpen its control over precise maneuvers, the brain uses comparisons between control signals—not the signals themselves.

Early scientists didn’t know it, but we do now: The void in the universe is alive.