This week: Seeding canines, hijacked parasites, changing faces, and more!

Video: The Evolution & Scale of Nuclear Weapons [18:32]

The Cellist of Auschwitz

Quantum Cryptography Has Everyone Scrambling

“A lot of parents are not aware at all”: The crisis of substance use among Los Alamos teens

Chinese rocket breaks apart after megaconstellation launch, creating cloud of space junk

Giants’ Bones? Fossilized Testicles? How Humans Reacted to the Discovery of Dinosaurs

Scientists propose warming up Mars by using heat-trapping ‘glitter’

The Inside Story of the University of the Arts’s Stunning Collapse

Florida’s Biggest Insurer Says It Needs to Increase Rates by 93 Percent

Watch How a Hacker’s Infrared Laser Can Spy on Your Laptop’s Keystrokes

Is AI our salvation, our undoing, or just more of the same?

These nearby star systems could be good targets in the search for alien life

Hurricane Debby Sweeps Cocaine Worth $1 Million Onto Florida Beach

The Weirdest Stuff We’ve Sent into Orbit

In world first, Russian chess player poisons rival’s board with mercury

Samples of Life’s Possible Origins From the Ocean’s ‘Lost City’

A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force

How an Instagram-Perfect Life in the Hamptons Ended in Tragedy

USPS Text Scammers Duped His Wife, So He Hacked Their Operation

Experiments Prepare to Test Whether Consciousness Arises from Quantum Weirdness

Molecule restores cognition, memory in Alzheimer’s disease model mice

After private equity takes over hospitals, they are less able to care for patients, top medical researchers say

Scientists May Have Found Signs of a Hidden Universe on the Ocean Floor

Racehorse poo analysis predicts future success

Gaia spots possible moons around hundreds of asteroids

Video: The Game That Stole $130,000,000 [9:31]

Sandwich to star power: Mayonnaise may unlock ‘never unstable’ nuclear fusion

Your microwave oven has its own microbiome

Terraforming Mars could be easier than scientists thought

Google and Meta ignored their own rules in secret teen-targeting ad deals

Nissan’s new paint cools cars by up to 21 °F in direct sunlight

She’s the Oldest Common Loon in the World. She Just Had Her 42nd Chick

NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return

Your future air conditioner might act like a battery

Philippe Petit Still Goes on High Wires, 50 Years After His Twin Towers Walk

Ancient poppy seeds and willow wood offer clues to the Greenland ice sheet’s last meltdown and a glimpse into a warmer future

How the Alchemist of New England Became a Legendary Counterfeiter

Monumental Portraits of Tiny Peacock Spiders Flaunting Their Colorful Bodies

To exercise or snack? This unsuspecting brain chemical plays a major role

Readers trust journalists less when they debunk rather than confirm claims

Sapphires form inside the fiery hearts of volcanoes, not deep in the mantle like we thought

Video: The $1BN Race to Save Notre Dame From Collapse [12:24]

‘A king will die’: 4,000-year-old lunar eclipse omen tablets finally deciphered

Boeing Furious at NASA Plan to Return Stranded Astronauts on SpaceX Craft

Physicists Pinpoint the Quantum Origin of the Greenhouse Effect

‘We’re not doing anything wrong’: why the word Taiwan is banned at the Olympics

Why Some People Are Paying to Be Left on a Desert Island—Alone

Titanium Heart Successfully Implanted Into Human for the First Time

Is Hikikomori — an Extreme, Long-Term Form of Social Isolation — a Disease Unto Itself?

The gravity-defying physics of breakdancing

Unique transistor ‘could change the world of electronics’ thanks to nanosecond-scale switching speeds and refusal to wear out

Observations confirm plasma bubble origin of persistent radio emissions from fast radio bursts

Watch SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket generate sonic boom during landing (video)

Video: How French Drains Work [16:40]

Scientists uncover hidden forces causing continents to rise

Incredible Winners and Finalists From the Prix de la Photographie Paris Competition

Documenting The Grit of S. Korea’s Aging Female Haenyeo Divers

Up On The Roof, A Handful Of Urban Stardust

A Murder in Laredo