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Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

In the final week of the Musk v. Altman trial, lawyers traded blows over Elon Musk’s and OpenAI CEO Sam Altman’s credibility. Altman was grilled on his alleged history of lying and self-dealing involving companies that do business with...

May 16, 2026

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Artificial intelligence tools answer addiction questions accurately but lack medical nuance

Scientists Say a 40-Year-Old Childhood Obesity Warning May Be Completely Wrong

Marijuana Use May Raise Lung Cancer Risk, Researchers Warn

Musk v. Altman week 3: Musk and Altman traded blows over each other’s credibility. Now the jury will pick a side.

Digital voter suppression ads tied to lower election turnout among specific demographic groups

NASA Science, Cargo Launch on 34th SpaceX Resupply Mission to Station

This Common Type of Food May Be Raising Your Risk of Heart Disease

Recently Discovered Asteroid Will Sweep Past Earth at Close Range on May 18 — Here's What to Know

Giant Tyrannosaur Fossil Found in New Mexico

Rising temperatures are deterring new arrivals rather than pushing residents out

Bizarre Venus Surface Formations Puzzle Planetary Scientists

A New Theory of Dark Matter Could Solve Three Cosmic Mysteries

Andes Hantavirus Strain Could Linger in Human Semen for Nearly 6 Years, and Change Little Over Time

This Shaggy New Fish Looked So Much Like Snuffleupagus That Scientists Named It After Him

Red Meat Helped Human Evolution — but Modern Diets May Raise Disease Risk

STAT+: FDA drug center head Tracy Beth Høeg leaves as agency faces leadership vacuum

Hantavirus can persist in semen for years, but that doesn’t mean it remains contagious

Solar power production undercut by coal pollution

Turbulence in the Milky Way's ISM Distorts Light from Distant Quasars

Astronomers Catch Interstellar Turbulence Warping Light across Milky Way

US biology lab locked down for more than a week amid smuggling inquiry

Autistic adults face higher risk of certain types of sexual victimization, study finds

A real Mr. Snuffleupagus? Meet the ocean’s strangest new fish species

Scientists Say Cognitive Decline Isn’t Inevitable — Your Brain Can Improve at Any Age

Fur Seals’ Hearts Suddenly Spike Hours After Returning to Land

Three's a party: US, China, and now Russia are on the prowl in GEO

Historical DNA Links Colonial Graves to 1.3 Million Living Relatives and May Have Identified the Colony’s Second Governor

Homo erectus May Have Co-Existed with Denisovans in East Asia

Your brain is always a fraction of a second behind the present – and has a clever way of hiding it

This Weird Sea Creature May Have Rewritten Life’s Genetic Rulebook

Can plants have consciousness? The film Silent Friend reimagines the science

This startup wants to make drugs in orbit. If it succeeds, it could transform the space economy

How to arm yourself against hantavirus misinformation

NASA Captures Volatile Changes in Earth's Artificial Light

Preprint server arXiv will ban submitters of AI-generated hallucinations

Cleaning up air pollution could weaken vital AMOC ocean current

SpaceX is about to launch tallest and most powerful rocket in history

First test of CO2 removal with green sand finds no harm to marine life

Eating a diet rich in four key nutrients is linked to a lower likelihood of depression, study finds

STAT+: Takeda will pay $13.6 million to settle allegations it paid kickbacks to doctors

Mouse eyes photosynthesize after plant-to-animal transplant

It’s a barracuda! It’s a shrimp! It’s a robot helping coral reefs.

A Galaxy Cluster's Wild Youth

Ice vests or daily cold showers could help people lose weight, study finds

Crabs’ sideways walk may have evolved just once

Running the numbers on a zero-emission way to make cement

Rare Storm Reawakens Ancient Dinosaur Shrimp and Brings Back Endangered Bird to Arid Hawaiian Island

Exclusive: NIH ousts infectious-disease leaders as COVID scientists face US charges

STAT+: Up and down the ladder: The latest comings and goings

Asking AI to explain your medical results? What doctors want you to know