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A years-long malaria control campaign in the Brazilian Amazon nearly eliminated the disease from a city — but then cases rebounded. Now, scientists think they’ve uncovered…

For the first time, physicists have built a working version of quantum mechanics without complex numbers — numbers that have been considered essential to the theory…

‘A silent pandemic’: How Japan is curbing antibiotic resistance, $5 at a timeThis interview is the second article in a series comparing antibiotic use in Japan…

Using a quantum computer alongside a supercomputer, scientists have developed a breakthrough pathway for modeling the physics inside a fusion reactor. The world-first experiment could help…

Two of the Milky Way’s gigantic spiral arms appear to be much farther away than we realized, scientists have discovered after listening to the echoes of…

Engineers have designed a waterproof “diving suit” for cyborg cockroaches that enables the hybrid insects to survive and roam underwater for up to three hours. This…

Scientists have invented a soft robotic heart that could give them a new way to study a mysterious condition that accounts for roughly half of all…

For decades, cities have been designed around “gray infrastructure.” Roads move people. Bridges connect communities. Water systems protect public health. These systems are governed by engineering…

Around 100,000 years ago, an early Homo sapiens man was probably stabbed in the face with a sharp stone tool and later buried in a cave…

The brain’s memory center may come “prewired,” rather than being built from scratch after birth, a new study in mice finds.The research, published in April in…