How Seed Oils Became Controversial—And What the Science Really Says A food scientist debunks the vilification of seed oils on social media and explains what research says about them. Why flu cases are ...

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For the first time, physicists in China have virtually eliminated the friction felt between two surfaces at scales visible to the naked eye. In demonstrating "structural superlubricity," the team, led ...

The agency did not complete a practice countdown for a flight that would be the first to send people around the moon in more than 50 years. By Kenneth Chang The New Shepard rocket from Blue Origin, ...

SpaceX's most recent financials, which have not been previously reported, led some banks to estimate that the company could raise more than $50 billion at a valuation exceeding $1.5 trillion, sources ...

About half (53%) of Americans say they hear or read about Ozempic, Wegovy and similar drugs extremely or very often. Only about 6.9% of the total U.S. population buys health insurance through the ...

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New in JNeurosci, Mary Schneider and Alexander Converse, from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, led an interdisciplinary study to explore how prenatal alcohol and stress exposure affect rhesus ...

Feb. 1, 2026 Dinosaur footprints have always been mysterious, but a new AI app is cracking their secrets. DinoTracker analyzes photos of fossil tracks and predicts which dinosaur made them, with ...