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Can Spotify playlist promotion help build genuine listeners?
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Can I replace only one side of my Beats earbuds?
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Moderna CEO Responds to RFK Jr.’s Crusade Against the Covid-19 Vaccine
At the WIRED Health summit on Tuesday, Moderna CEO Stéphane Bancel said the recent changes to Covid-19 vaccine…
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Roam the wide-open halls and cavernous showrooms of the Colorado Convention Center during Psychedelic Science, the world’s largest…
The New Math of Quantum Cryptography
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It’s Possible to Remove the Forever Chemicals in Drinking Water. Will It Happen?
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Neuralink’s Bid to Trademark ‘Telepathy’ and ‘Telekinesis’ Faces Legal Issues
The United States Patent and Trademark Office has rejected Neuralink’s attempt to trademark the product names Telepathy and…
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What It’s Like to Work at a Body Farm
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Falcon 9 Milestones Vindicate SpaceX’s ‘Dumb’ Approach to Reuse
As SpaceX’s Starship vehicle gathered all of the attention this week, the company’s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket continued…
These Newly Discovered Cells Breathe in Two Ways
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Antarctica Is Changing Rapidly. The Consequences Could Be Dire
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Your Body Ages Faster Because of Extreme Heat
It is well known that heat causes exhaustion in the body due to dehydration. But aging? A recent…
NASA’s Largest Satellite Antenna Ever Has Just Unfurled in Space
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China Is Building a Brain-Computer Interface Industry
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How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on September 7
On the evening of September 7, the second (and final) total lunar eclipse of the year will take…
Scientists Are Flocking to Bluesky
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Top CDC Officials Resign After Director Is Pushed Out
Susan Monarez is no longer the director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, according to…
SpaceX Starship Finally Pulls Off a Successful Test Flight
Elon Musk and his SpaceX team can breathe a collective sigh of relief. After days of postponements, Starship…
The Plan to Turn the Caribbean’s Glut of Sargassum Into Biofuel
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IBM and NASA Develop a Digital Twin of the Sun to Predict Future Solar Storms
The Sun’s most complex mysteries could soon be solved thanks to artificial intelligence. On August 20, IBM and…
What Is the Magnetic Constant and Why Does It Matter?
This means these three values can’t be independent; if you know two of them, you can derive the…
The Hidden Ingredients Behind AI’s Creativity
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. We were once promised self-driving cars and robot…
Scientists Have Identified the Origin of an Extraordinarily Powerful Outer Space Radio Wave
The Earth is constantly receiving space signals that contain vital information about extremely energetic phenomena. Among the most…
Climate Change Is Bringing Legionnaire’s Disease to a Town Near You
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Government Staffing Cuts Have Fueled an Ant-Smuggling Boom
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Scientists Find a New Moon Orbiting Uranus
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FEMA Now Requires Disaster Victims to Have an Email Address
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Meet Wukong, the AI Chatbot China Has Installed on Its Space Station
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Scientists Just Caught Human Embryo Implantation on Camera
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Arkansas Hosts the Planet’s Only Public Diamond Mine
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An Ancient Penis Worm With Rings of Sharp Teeth Has Been Discovered in the Grand Canyon
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A Super-Energetic Neutrino That Reached Earth in 2023 Has Been Confirmed to Be Real. But Where Did It Come From?
In February 2023, a cosmic particle detector housed deep in the Mediterranean Sea recorded the arrival of a…
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The End of Handwriting | WIRED
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AI Is Designing Bizarre New Physics Experiments That Actually Work
“LIGO is this huge thing that thousands of people have been thinking about deeply for 40 years,” said…
What Is the Electric Constant and Why Should You Care?
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UN Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure
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Now You Can Get Your Flu Vaccine at Home
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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines
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This Might Be the Most Massive Black Hole Ever Discovered
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Central American Beaches Are Being Overrun With Local and Foreign Plastic
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The Black Market for Fake Science Is Growing Faster Than Legitimate Research, Study Warns
A new study by researchers at Northwestern University has set off alarm bells about the future of academic…
An AI Model for the Brain Is Coming to the ICU
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This New Pyramid-Like Shape Always Lands With the Same Side Up
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Private Companies Are Now Gathering Weather Data for NOAA
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The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
In 1938, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who had fled to New York to escape fascism, discovered a material…
NASA Rewrites the Rules for Developers of Private Space Stations
Phil McAlister, who directed NASA’s Commercial Space Division from 2005 to 2024, which included this commercial space station…
Why the US Is Racing to Build a Nuclear Reactor on the Moon
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Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Shows Promising Weight Loss in New Results
An experimental pill made by Eli Lilly led to average weight loss of more than 12 percent of…
Life After the Atomic Blast, as Told by Hiroshima’s Survivors
The mushroom cloud was visible from the hills of neighboring prefectures. Those who were beyond the immediate blast…
See 6 Planets Align in the Night Sky This August
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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
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How Supercomputing Will Evolve, According to Jack Dongarra
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Science Reveals the Surprising Origins of the Potato
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The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments
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The Grave Long-Term Effects of the Gaza Malnutrition Crisis
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Efforts to Ground Physics in Math Are Opening the Secrets of Time
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Trump Promised to ‘Drill, Baby, Drill.’ The New Rigs Are Nowhere to Be Found
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ quarterly survey of over 130 oil and gas producers based in Texas,…
Peacock Feathers Are Stunning. They Can Also Emit Laser Beams
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AC or DC: Which Is Better?
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The First Widespread Cure for HIV Could Be in Children
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States Are Moving to Protect Access to Vaccines
With US Health and Human Services secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. already shaking up federal vaccine policy, some…
Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico
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Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work
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What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health
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The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid
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Animals Are the Original Wellness Influencers
In the early 2010s, researchers in Mexico City noticed that sparrows and finches at the national university were…
There’s Neuralink—and There’s the Mind-Reading Company That Might Surpass It
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This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets
A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting the…
An Inventor Is Injecting Bleach Into Cancerous Tumors—and Wants to Bring the Treatment to the US
Liu has been making the solution in his rented apartment in Beijing by mixing citric acid with sodium…
A ‘Grand Unified Theory’ of Math Just Got a Little Bit Closer
“We mostly believe that all the conjectures are true, but it’s so exciting to see it actually realized,”…
The ICJ Rules That Failing to Combat Climate Change Could Violate International Law
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The Texas Floods Were a Preview of What’s to Come
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Join Our Next Livestream: Inside Katie Drummond’s Viral Interview With Bryan Johnson
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The First Planned Migration of an Entire Country Is Underway
“When combined with other Pacific pathways to Australia and New Zealand, nearly 4 percent of the population could…
The Very Real Case for Brain-Computer Implants
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Florida Is Now a Haven for Unproven Stem-Cell Treatments
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A Top NASA Official Is Among Thousands of Staff Leaving the Agency
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South Korea Plans to Build a Base on the Moon
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The Next Thing You Smell Could Ruin Your Life
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Newly Discovered ‘Infinity Galaxy’ Could Prove How Ancient Supermassive Black Holes Formed
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EPA Employees Still in the Dark as Agency Dismantles Scientific Research Office
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How Trump Killed Cancer Research
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The Hunt for a Fundamental Theory of Quantum Gravity
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Why It’s Taking LA So Long to Rebuild After the Wildfires
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Einstein Showed That Time Is Relative. But … Why Is It?
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Trump and the Energy Industry Are Eager to Power AI With Fossil Fuels
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Where Are All the AI Drugs?
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Can US Measles Outbreaks Be Stopped?
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The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both
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For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time
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Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS
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How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear
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Cloning Came to Polo. Then Things Got Truly Uncivilized
To play polo at the highest level, you have to love horses or be filthy rich. Ideally both.…
Scientists Succeed in Reversing Parkinson’s Symptoms in Mice
“All of the mice we treated showed dramatic improvement in their motor skills. The results exceeded our expectations…
Dr. ChatGPT Will See You Now
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A Giant Planet and a Small Star Are Shaking Up Conventional Cosmological Theory
Many of the stars in the Milky Way galaxy are small, dim red dwarfs—stars much smaller than the…
China Has Attempted What Might Be the First-Ever Orbital Refueling of a Satellite
Northrop Grumman launched two satellites in 2019 and 2020 that accomplished the first dockings in geosynchronous orbit. Northrop’s…
Conspiracy Theories About the Texas Floods Lead to Death Threats
Over 100 people have now been confirmed to have lost their lives in the flash flooding that hit…
On Mexico’s Caribbean Coast, There’s Lobster for the Tourists and Microplastics for Everyone Else
The fishermen of Puerto Morelos, on Mexico’s Caribbean coast, risk their lives every time they head out to…
Why Jolly Ranchers Are Banned in the UK but Not the US
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Is It Time to Stop Protecting the Grizzly Bear?
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How the Binding of Two Brain Molecules Creates Memories That Last a Lifetime
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Meteorologists Say the National Weather Service Did Its Job in Texas
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Feeling Hoarse? You Might Have the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant
Another NEW covid variant is currently rapidly gaining a foothold. Known officially as XFG—or informally as “Stratus”—it has…
The EU Proposes New Rules to Govern the European Space Race
There are around 11,000 satellites orbiting Earth, and it is estimated that at least 50,000 more will be…
How to Travel to the Most Remote Office on Earth
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Trump’s ‘Big Beautiful Bill’ Would Leave Millions Without Health Insurance
Senate Republicans on Tuesday passed President Donald Trump’s sprawling tax and spending package, known as the “One Big…
Despite Protests, Elon Musk Secures Air Permit for xAI
A local health department in Memphis has granted Elon Musk’s xAI data center an air permit to continue…
Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids if Government Stops Recommending Them
“We are committed to ongoing coverage of vaccines to ensure access and affordability for this respiratory virus season,”…
The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs
After more than a day of continuous debate, the US Senate passed its version of the budget megabill…
Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be…
The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Globally, humanity is producing…
The Next Acetaminophen Tablet You Take Could Be Made From PET
Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have succeeded in transforming certain plastic waste into acetaminophen using the natural…
Space Elevators Could Totally Work—if Earth Days Were Much Shorter
Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What would…
A European Startup’s Spacecraft Made It to Orbit. Now It’s Lost at Sea
A European company that seeks to develop orbital spacecraft for cargo, and eventually humans, took a step forward…
‘They’re Not Breathing’: Inside the Chaos of ICE Detention Center 911 Calls
During visits in recent months, Emelie says her husband, who was detained at Stewart until he was deported…
India Is Using AI and Satellites to Map Urban Heat Vulnerability Down to the Building Level
“The more granular your data, the more targeted your response can be,” Krishna adds. Instead of generic advisories…
Scientists Are Sending Cannabis Seeds to Space
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The Largest Camera Ever Built Releases Its First Images of the Cosmos
Perched atop the Cerro Pachón mountain in Chile, 8,684 feet high in the Atacama Desert, where the dry…
How to Beat Jet Lag
As ultra-long-haul routes take flight, plane-lighting hacks and meal planning could help passengers recover faster.
How the Universe and Its Mirrored Version Are Different
Kitty couldn’t have digested looking-glass milk. Worse, if it had contained any bacteria with the opposite handedness, her…
Methane Pollution Has Cheap, Effective Solutions That Aren’t Being Used
And because methane is invisible and odorless, it can be difficult and expensive to monitor it and prevent…
Eli Lilly’s Obesity Pill Appears to Work as Well as Injected GLP-1s
Eli Lilly’s daily anti-obesity pill orforglipron appears to be as good at spurring weight loss and lowering blood…
The FDA Just Approved a Long-Lasting Injection to Prevent HIV
The US Food and Drug Administration has just approved lenacapavir, an injectable form of HIV prevention that is…
‘Major Anomaly’ Behind Latest SpaceX Starship Explosion
Musk wrote that the nitrogen COPV appears to have failed below its proof pressure, within conditions that should…
RFK Jr.’s Appointees to CDC Vaccine Panel Are Not Good
Anti-vaccine advocate and current Health secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. took to social media Wednesday to announce the…
How Much Energy Does AI Use? The People Who Know Aren’t Saying
“People are often curious about how much energy a ChatGPT query uses,” Sam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI,…
The EPA Plans to ‘Reconsider’ Ban on Cancer-Causing Asbestos
Despite touting ambitious goals of making America healthier, the Trump administration on Monday revealed in court documents that…
US Supreme Court Upholds Tennessee’s Ban on Gender-Affirming Care for Minors
The US Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday upheld the state of Tennessee’s ban on gender-affirming care for…
Scientists Discover the Key to Axolotls’ Ability to Regenerate Limbs
In his current research, there are still gaps to be filled: how the CYP26B1 gradient is regulated, how…
A New Obesity Pill May Burn Fat Without Suppressing Appetite
While injected GLP-1 drugs are incredibly effective at spurring weight loss, they also come with some downsides. There…
This Historian Has Seen the Future of Trans Health Care
Gill-Peterson’s work has illustrated for Branstetter the narrowing effect that identity-first politics can have at a time when…
The Mysterious Inner Workings of Io, Jupiter’s Volcanic Moon
Crucially, unlike Io’s odd magnetic field, which seemed to indicate that it concealed an ocean’s worth of fluid,…
WHO Monitors New Covid Variant Spreading in America and Europe
A new Covid variant is being kept under surveillance by the World Health Organization (WHO) as its emergence…
This Chinese Spacecraft Is Traveling to One of Earth’s Quasi-Moons
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Wood Pellet Mills Are Prone to Catching Fire. Why Build Them in California?
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Are Those Viral ‘Cooling Blankets’ for Real?
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‘Uber for Getting Off Antidepressants’ Launches in the US
Unlike a linear taper, which involves reducing the dose of a medication by the same amount each time,…
Congress Demands Answers on Data Privacy Ahead of 23andMe Sale
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The EPA Wants to Roll Back Emissions Controls on Power Plants
The US Environmental Protection Agency moved to roll back emissions standards for power plants, the second-largest source of…
Astronomers Are Using Artificial Intelligence to Unlock the Secrets of Black Holes
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A Political Battle Is Brewing Over Data Centers
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What Tear Gas and Rubber Bullets Do to the Human Body
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A New Law of Nature Attempts to Explain the Complexity of the Universe
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Uber Just Reinvented the Bus … Again
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How to Prepare for a Climate Disaster in Trump’s America
In your go bag, FEMA recommends packing three days’ worth of food and water, physical maps of local…
How One Keto Trial Set Off a New War in the Nutrition World
While the study was still in the recruitment phase, Nadolsky left the team. Entrenched Positions Klatt, of UC…
Astronomers Have Detected a Galaxy Millions of Years Older Than Any Previously Observed
With the help of the James Webb Space Telescope, a team of astronomers has broken the record for…
A Neuralink Rival Just Tested a Brain Implant in a Person
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How to Make AI Faster and Smarter—With a Little Help from Physics
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Analysts Say Trump Trade Wars Would Harm the Entire US Energy Sector, From Oil to Solar
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Hummingbirds Are Evolving to Adapt to Life With Humans
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Is Using a Stair Machine the Same as Climbing Stairs?
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Starship’s Latest Test Reveals New Problems for SpaceX to Solve
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The Plan to Send Plant-Filled ‘Gardens’ Into Orbit
She imagines industrial activity in space, freeing up land on Earth. Hollywood directors shooting films in orbit. And…
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A New Study Reveals the Makeup of Uranus’s Atmosphere
Over that period, the research team watched as the south polar region darkened going into winter and the…
The Milky Way Has a Mysterious ‘Broken Bone’
If you look at the Milky Way through a powerful telescope, you’ll notice that close to the center…
Why Women With Type 2 Diabetes Are Diagnosed Later Than Men
Statistically, men are more likely than women to be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes, with about 18 million…
What are the main features of an AI video API?
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The Quest to Prove the Existence of a New Type of Quantum Particle
When you swap two paraparticles, these hidden properties change in tandem. As an analogy, imagine that these properties…
Want to Claim the Solar Tax Credit? Get Installing Now
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AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse
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Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate
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The Enhanced Games Has a Date, a Host City, and a Drug-Fueled World Record
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New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station
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The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass
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Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug
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A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time
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SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures
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Patients Are Left With Few Options as GLP-1 Copycats Disappear
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The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals
In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s main arm devoted…
Intelligence on Earth Evolved Independently at Least Twice
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Diabetes Is Rising in Africa. Could It Lead to New Breakthroughs?
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Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels
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Trump’s Surgeon General Pick Is Tearing the MAHA Movement Apart
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US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
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As the US Cuts Scientific Talent, Europe Launches an Initiative to Attract It
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This US Company Just Successfully Tested a Reusable Hypersonic Rocket Plane
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Scientists Have Just Discovered a New Type of Electricity-Conducting Bacteria
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The Dream of the Metaverse Is Dying. Manufacturing Is Keeping It Alive
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The Future of Manufacturing Might Be in Space
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FEMA Is Ending Door-to-Door Canvassing in Disaster Areas
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How Mexico’s Fishing Refuges Are Fighting Back Against Poaching
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