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After warning Juul and other e-cigarette makers to keep their flavored products away from minors, the F.D.A. wants to curb sales altogether.

Mouse studies show tiny intercellular pods convey to sperm a legacy of a father’s hard knocks in life.

• By Esther Landhuis on November 8, 2018

Our foldable future is here.

Yeah, it sounds goth, but it could explain the enormous size of certain black holes.

In the distant future, our own galaxy could join hearts with its galactic neighbor Andromeda.

First spied in the 1960s, the huge dust clouds have now been confirmed—and may affect plans for future space exploration.

These maps sketch out the remnants of long-lost landmasses trapped within drifting continental plates called cratons. While some cratons are already well-understood, Antarctica’s lithospheric structure is tough to examine because of its remote location and the enormous ice sheets that obscure its underlying geology.

“These gravity images are revolutionizing our ability to study the least understood continent on Earth—Antarctica,” said study co-author Fausto Ferraccioli, science leader of geology and Geophysics at the British Antarctic Survey, in a statement. “In East Antarctica, we see an exciting mosaic of geological features that reveal fundamental similarities and differences between the crust beneath Antarctica and other continents it was joined to until 160 million years ago.”

Alexander Smith’s work on the Goldfeld conjecture reveals fundamental characteristics of elliptic curves.

Are you outraged?

We talked to the author of a study about why people are deeply unchill about those who don’t want to ever spawn offspring.

A tiny fossil rove beetle helps to reconstruct the breakup of the former supercontinent Gondwana 99 million years ago and the formation of our modern world.