The latest on commercial space stations, Japan's mission to bring a sample from a Martian moon, and space-based weapons.

In the new movie “Whalefall,” a scuba diver has a very bad day in the guts of a sperm whale. Could it actually happen?

A free-floating seaweed called sargassum is exploding in the Atlantic Ocean, clogging up coastlines from West Africa to the ...

A linguist weighs in on how "politician speak" has changed over the past century, and what it says about what we want from ...

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Cephalopod characters have shown up in movies for over a century. But as our understanding of them has changed, so have their on-screen roles.

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AI safety has dominated the news cycle for weeks, precipitated in part by an AI attack where a bunch of OpenAI’s agents teamed up and hacked another AI platform, Hugging Face, without humans knowing.

This story is part of The State of Science, a series featuring science stories from public media journalists across the United States. It features reporting by Reid Frazier from The Allegheny Front.