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New brain-computer interfaces turn attempted speech into words and can speak them in a voice resembling the user's own.

Guidelines for designing coasters don't reflect the latest science about what types of movement the brain can withstand.

Farmers in Yunnan Province, China, alerted researchers to the humongous fungus. Dianjunus rex's mushrooms stand at half a meter tall.

Volcanoes have cast a shadow over climate and history. Cold spurts after eruptions may have spurred famine, disease, revolts and other events.

Anthropic says Claude helped a scientist plan potentially risky bird flu research, a case that highlights questions about AI's growing role in biology.

Editor in Chief Nancy Shute discusses the power of the human voice, hopeful advances in treating stiff person syndrome and new controversy about using AI in mathematics.

A viral infection from millions of years ago may have influenced chimp brain evolution through DNA leftovers in the genome.

In people being treated for blood cancer, consuming sugar while on antibiotics boosted harm to the diversity of the gut microbiome.

Switching to an electric stove from a lung-irritating gas one may improve asthma symptoms. But if you're stuck with gas, reducing exposure may help.

The force exerted by a gas usually results from many atoms or molecules at once. But scientists isolated the force of a lone particle.