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Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

U.S. Debates Legislation to Enable Consumer Repair of Electronics and Machinery

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Today’s bans on DIY repairs of everything from cell phones to tractors grew out of Hollywood’s fear of videotaping

How does your body lose weight? An obesity doctor explains why one size doesn’t fit all in weight loss

SpaceX is poised to go public and test the latest version of its massive Starship rocket amidst criticism about its environmental impact

Solar activity follows an 11-year cycle – here’s how it controls eruptions and solar flares

Quantum sensors use atoms, electrons and light as ultra-steady rulers – detecting faint motion, magnetism and gravity for navigation, medicine and science

How you map numbers in your mind isn’t universal, even among people who read the same language

Self-censorship, more stress, tougher recruiting – we asked US researchers how the Trump administration’s science policies have affected them

AI interviewers can’t connect with people the way human researchers can – they can produce only data, not meaning

How a shifting Nile landscape shaped the rise of the ancient empire of Kush in Sudan

A newly rediscovered moth species in Florida may already be at risk

Dark patterns on the web are designed to manipulate you – why aren’t they all illegal?

What are those orange balls on some power lines?

You can persuade AI models to accept falsehoods as truth, study shows

A fungal disease, along with climate change, threatens Colorado’s prized peaches

Astrophysicists use ‘space archaeology’ to trace the history of a spiral galaxy

Will future missions to the Moon be sustainable? It may depend on whom you ask

Falling space debris poses an escalating risk as spacecraft get stronger and more heat resistant

We tested the new World Cup ball – this is what you need to know about how it will fly, dip and swerve

Most people don’t know what they don’t know, but think they do – correcting your metaknowledge can make you a better teacher and learner

Genome sequencing is rewriting the history of disease outbreaks – but without social context, it can tell only part of the story

Button-pushing explorers: How to grasp that AI agents can do amazing things while knowing nothing

You can change your emotions – but it’s a 2-step process that takes some effort

Delta-8, delta-9, THCA? What sets the different THC forms available in regulated cannabis products apart

How AI can lead to false arrests and wrongful convictions

How does your brain decide between the road not taken or the same old route? Resolving conflicting memories is key to navigation

Why did ‘Tyrannosaurus rex’ have such short arms?

Conspiracy theorists are building AI interfaces to the Epstein files – and presenting their views as data analysis

Teens aren’t as disengaged as you may think: What adults get wrong about adolescents’ civic contributions

Thoreau the scientist – how environmental research informed ‘Walden’ and later works

Online hate groups sustain their messages by repeating powerful stories or routinely adding new allegations

White House wants to vet powerful AI models for risks − a computer scientist explains why AI safety is so difficult

Photographic memory is a myth – here’s what research really says about remembering

Galaxies of life are collecting dust in museums – digitizing microscope slides can uncover billions of fossils for natural history

Mythos AI is a cybersecurity threat, but it doesn’t rewrite the rules of the game

Fiber’s structural integrity keeps plants strong – and its indigestibility keeps your digestive system healthy

Synthetic biology promised to rewrite life – with the death of its pioneer, J. Craig Venter, how close are scientists?

How much should politics influence science, and vice versa? National Science Board’s ousting resurrects an existential debate

‘A study showed…’ isn’t enough – scientific knowledge builds incrementally as researchers investigate and revisit questions

Seeing an eclipse from Earth is awe-inspiring – for astronauts seeing one from space, the scene was even more grand

Supreme Court geofencing case weighs constitutionality of digital dragnets – and how far your rights go in the data Big Tech collects on you