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ALT Goodbye Swift: After 22 years, NASA spacecraft burns up in atmosphere Astronomers mourn telescope that supercharged study of cosmic explosions

ALT Wearable device makers are harvesting brain data to train AI—without telling users Science investigation reveals firms have amassed tens of millions of hours of brain wave data from neurotech headbands, and face few constraints in using it

ALT Astronomers sharpen JWST’s view of distant worlds Model of the telescope’s imperfections helps strip away starlight obscuring faint exoplanets

ALT Walrus tusks carved in Bali are being illegally sold as Native American art, investigation finds

ALT AI can track a single bird over time—based solely on its song Approach could provide scientists with a quicker, gentler way to gauge the health of bird populations

ALT Novel gene therapy lets drug dampen brain cell activity, reducing seizures In first clinical result using “chemogenetic” strategy, a team in China treated three patients to control epilepsy

ALT Noise pollution is causing potentially massive problems for wildlife across the globe Largest analysis to date of the impact of humanmade sounds finds harm across a variety of ecosystems

ALT U.S. midterm election results brighten prospects for science Research advocates welcome Democrats taking Congress but must still deal with Trump

ALT Illustrated comparison of short corn and tall corn. Short corn: Small tassel, more upright leaves, short distance between leaves, low ear, thicker stalk. Tall corn: large tassel, less upright leaves, long distance between leaves, high ear, thinner stalk.

ALT A child's drawing of a female scientist, with the text: What does a scientist look like? Children are drawing women more than ever before

ALT China space experiment creates coldest temperature ever Novel technique for cooling atomic gases could make it easier to probe gravity and relativity in orbit