Passionflower-powered chewing gums may one day offer accessible new ways to manage anxiety. #RegeneronISEF https://www.snexplores.org/article/chewing-gum-relieve-anxiety

Matter is much more common than antimatter — but why? Here’s one possible explanation. https://www.snexplores.org/article/antimatter-exploding-black-holes

The lives of black holes continually surprise scientists. https://www.snexplores.org/article/black-holes-birth-death

Using #neurofeedback, scientists trained people’s minds to become immune boosters. The findings could help researchers target brain-body circuits in cancer and other life-health contexts. https://www.snexplores.org/article/positive-thinking-boost-immune-system

Over 900 million people use ChatGPT each week. How should we handle the sometimes dangerous influence of our AI helpers? This teen made an app. #ISEF2026 #RegeneronISEF https://www.snexplores.org/article/app-guards-against-bad-ai-agents-bots

Do you play Pokémon Go? If you ever scanned a landmark while playing, those images will now help delivery robots find their way around. https://www.snexplores.org/article/pokemon-go-build-city-maps

A teen’s new understanding of origami can help engineers copy many of nature’s designs, from birds and leaves to a ladybug’s wings. #RegeneronISEF https://www.snexplores.org/article/2026-regeneron-isef-winners-origami

Brown tree snakes defy gravity to reach tall branches. They can lift upright without arms or legs by bending toward the bottom of their bodies. https://www.snexplores.org/article/physics-climbing-snakes-stand-up

Chatbots can give potentially dangerous answers to questions about nutrition. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ai-teens-bad-diet-advice

Student athletes compete under performance pressure, just like the pros. But research on pitchers’ recovery is limited among adolescents. This teen hopes to change that. https://www.snexplores.org/article/baseball-pitcher-recovery-arm-health #RegeneronISEF

When temperatures soar, try these innovative ways to beat the heat. https://www.snexplores.org/article/6-ways-science-beat-summer-heat

Turf grass scientists find winning designs for World Cup fields. https://www.snexplores.org/article/turfgrass-soccer-pitch-world-cup-science

Tree tips glow a faint blue during thunderstorms, no Christmas lights required. https://www.snexplores.org/article/thunderstorm-trees-electric-glow

Robots that look too humanlike can start to creep us out. These roboticists are seeking to avoid that. https://www.snexplores.org/article/lip-synching-android-robots-uncanny

Not only might scientists figure out how to better animal lives, they might get some clues to human happiness, too. https://www.snexplores.org/article/animal-joy-emotion

The skies above the U.S. host around 100 trillion flying insects on a typical summer day. https://www.snexplores.org/article/flying-insect-abundance-air

In fiction, everyone from Spock to Spider-Man has alter egos in parallel universes. But do multiple universes actually exist? https://www.snexplores.org/article/multiverse-multiple-universes-space

In cities in the U.S. Northeast, light pollution has extended pollen season — and allergy woes — by nearly two months. https://www.snexplores.org/article/light-pollution-pollen-season-allergies

Your ancestor was a germ named LUCA. Scientists can now tell you a bit about it. https://www.snexplores.org/article/luca-common-ancestor-evolution

“Just because you're the only one that looks like you in a certain place doesn't mean that you don't belong,” says ecologist Elliott White Jr. https://www.snexplores.org/article/coast-wetland-ecology-hurricane-katrina

A newfound cave on Venus will guide the upcoming space probe missions to the mysterious planet https://www.snexplores.org/article/venus-volcano-lava-tube

Here’s why you should think twice before using AI auto-complete features to help with writing. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ai-auto-complete-bias-views

Cows usually rub against trees, rocks or wooden planks to scratch. But Veronika’s handy tool let’s her get at those expecially hard-to-reach parts. https://www.snexplores.org/article/first-cow-tool-use

Are ice cream, cheese and burgers good for you? Well, they are at least when it comes their CLA — a natural trans fat that promotes growth and health. https://www.snexplores.org/article/cla-trans-fat-heatlh

New dietary guidelines list beef tallow, butter and olive oil as healthy fats. One of those is right. https://www.snexplores.org/article/dietary-fat-nutrition

More than half of U.S. calories come from ultraprocessed foods. Scientists worry about the health effects of not just their fats and sugar, but also their additives. https://www.snexplores.org/article/what-are-ultraprocessed-foods

Researchers knew that bulldogs and pugs can have trouble breathing. Now, they've determined the problem is almost as bad for some other smooshed-face breeds. https://www.snexplores.org/article/flat-faced-dogs-pugs-breathing-problems

Nothing lasts forever, especially not order. This week’s word is entropy. https://www.snexplores.org/article/scientists-say-entropy-definition-pronunciation

A new approach to “invisibility” tech takes inspiration from the lowly leafhopper. This tech might one day find use in clean energy, military gear and more. https://www.snexplores.org/article/leafhoppers-invisibility-cloaking-tech

Scientists have thought of the time after the dino-killing impact as a long, slow crawl back from disaster. In fact, it may have been a period of extraordinarily rapid evolution. https://www.snexplores.org/article/fast-life-evolution-dino-killer-asteroid

If you want to rescue a river, think like a beaver. https://www.snexplores.org/article/human-beaver-dams-healthy-streams

You can’t feel textures when you’re browsing on your phone — but with this device, you might someday. https://www.snexplores.org/article/touch-virtual-texture-haptic-device

However weird you think platypuses are — they get weirder. https://www.snexplores.org/article/platypus-weird-species-monotreme

The Artemis II astronauts not only got front-row seats to meteorites striking the moon but also to a stunning total solar eclipse. https://www.snexplores.org/article/artemis-orion-loop-farside-moon

Hoping the yellow jackets won't find your backyard BBQ this summer? Good luck. https://www.snexplores.org/article/yellow-jackets-smell-in-wind

More than half of U.S. teens use chatbots for homework. Of these, at least one in five say they use it for all or most of their schoolwork. https://www.snexplores.org/article/teen-chatbot-use-homework

Algorithms feed us what they’ve decided we will probably like. The problem: This often proves a truly unhealthy diet for our minds. https://www.snexplores.org/article/social-media-feeds-algorithms

These ‘recipes’ are behind everything from choosing a dog to what’s on social media. https://www.snexplores.org/article/how-algorithms-work-online-social

This is no April Fools’ joke — for the first time in more than 50 years, astronauts are flying to the moon! https://www.snexplores.org/article/artemis-mission-astronauts-moon-launch

Prehistoric puke shows what was on the menu for one early land predator. https://www.snexplores.org/article/fossil-vomit-predator-before-dinosaurs

The soundtrack of a basketball game is punctuated by squeaking sneakers. Now, physicists understand why. https://www.snexplores.org/article/sneakers-squeak-basketball-court-physics

This planet is filled with absurdities.” That includes cells whose jumping is so fast it looks like teleportation. https://www.snexplores.org/article/speediest-cells-organism

Spreading crushed rocks on soils could pull billions of tons of CO2 from the air. The down side: We’d have to mine up to 13 billion tons of basalt rock each year. https://www.snexplores.org/article/rock-basalt-farm-fields-co2-climate

When a net-casting spider launches its web at prey, parts of the net can stretch up to 24 times their original size — and in about a tenth of a second. https://www.snexplores.org/article/spider-silk-loops-stretchy-strong-web

Patterns on 8,000-year-old pottery may show the earliest evidence of mathematical thinking. https://www.snexplores.org/article/ancient-pottery-earliest-math

Venus is basically Earth’s evil twin. https://www.snexplores.org/article/lets-learn-about-venus-planet-solar-system

“We were starstruck by Kanzi.” https://www.snexplores.org/article/kanzi-bonobo-play-pretend

These vivid “shooting stars” burst apart, sometimes with enough power to shatter windows and outshine the sun. This week’s word is bolide. https://www.snexplores.org/article/scientists-say-bolide-definition-pronunciation

Islands of floating seaweed have expanded their range in the world’s oceans. Find out why this area has been growing by more than 1/7 larger each year since 2003. https://www.snexplores.org/article/growing-seaweed-blooms-ocean-surface