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The Climate Crisis Threatens Supply Chains. Manufacturers Hope AI Can Help
Abhi Ghadge, associate professor of supply chain management at Cranfield University in the UK, says…
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What Caused the European Power Outage?
The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity…
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2025 Is the Year of the Humanoid Robot Factory Worker
Later this year, Boston Dynamics plans to put its all-electric humanoid Atlas robot to work…
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RFK Jr.’s HHS Orders Lab Studying Deadly Infectious Diseases to Stop Research
A research facility within the US National Institutes of Health that is tasked with studying…
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Trump’s Policies Are Creating Uncertainty for Fossil Fuel Companies
“Lawyers are going to have a field day with this,” says Hathaway, who now works…
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As Measles Cases Surge, Mexico Issues a US Travel Alert
As the US struggles to contain its worst measles outbreak in years, cases have spilled…
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States and Startups Are Suing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
American nuclear is in 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor’s blood: his great-grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project.…
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Europe’s Devastating Power Outage in Photos
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Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time
Two years ago, astronomers believe they detected a star devouring one of its planets. Now,…
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A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is…
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Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System
Grid batteries have a halo effect for other power generators too. Most thermal power plants—coal,…
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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars
Satellite observations had shown alternating stripes of light-colored and dark-colored rock in this area. In…
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Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs
The FDA gave compounders a grace period to wind down their production of the drugs…
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Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years
With vaccination rates among US kindergarteners steadily declining in recent years and Secretary of Health…
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This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem
In the arid region south of Mexicali, where the pale desert dominates the landscape, the…
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Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently
Together with his colleagues, Jinshan Pan, a professor of corrosion science at KTH Royal Institute…
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Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is
We all want to know if and how we can come back to form after…
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Scientists Are Mapping the Bizarre, Chaotic Spacetime Inside Black Holes
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.At the beginning of time and…
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Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception
A team of scientists has identified areas of the brain that are activated when a…
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As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The summer…
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FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say
Less than two months before the official start of hurricane season, the nation’s primary disaster-response…
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Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow
As the United States grapples with rising measles cases and outbreaks in several states, another…
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Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory
Cathy Tinney-Zara, a worker at NIOSH’s Morgantown facility who spoke to WIRED in her capacity…
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Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away
Astronomers have found one of the most promising indications that there could be extraterrestrial life…
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DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs
AmeriCorps, the US federal agency that oversees volunteerism and service work, abruptly pulled teams of…
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The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It
It’s often the case that the more that planets are studied and understood, the more…
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‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan
Venkatraman Ramakrishnan, the man of death. Although this does not sound like a good moniker,…
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Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Large language models work well because…
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One Man’s Quest to Reforest the Rio Grande Valley
The Tamaulipan thorn forest once covered 1 million acres on both sides of the US-Mexico…
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Proposed NASA Budget Cuts ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’
This week, as part of the process to develop a budget for fiscal-year 2026, the…
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This Famous Physics Experiment Shows Why the Government Should Support ‘Useless’ Science
The lighter creates a tiny spark that jumps from one wire to the other in…
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An Experimental Obesity Pill Mimics Gastric Bypass Surgery
The drug is based on research conducted at MIT by Giovanni Traverso, a gastroenterologist and…
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Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late
The promise of new demand is driving some utilities to reconsider scheduled coal plant retirements.…
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An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous
More and more people are turning to in vitro fertilization, or IVF, to have babies.…
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Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf
Studying the dire wolf’s genome also allowed the Colossal team to figure out which features…
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States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back
In 2021, James Kenney and his husband were at a big box store buying a…
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Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable
Moore designed his pinball machine to complete the analogy to the Turing machine. The starting…
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Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The warming…
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SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster
SpaceX is having trouble with Starship's upper stage after back-to-back failures, but engineers are making…
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Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot
If the ball hits the stick and bounces back, what will happen to the stick?…
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Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH
Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National…
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This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics
This is a non-exhaustive list of places microplastics have been found: Mount Everest, the Mariana…
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In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls
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Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’
Libertarians often take these mechanisms for granted and refuse to consider where they come from.…
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Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful
Those are pretty stringent constraints, so it wasn’t obvious that the extra memory could ever…
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US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Cities looking…
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Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility
“What we expected out of this initial transplant was to demonstrate that the method was…
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Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space
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Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella
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It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission
Late Saturday night, technicians at Kennedy Space Center in Florida moved the core stage for…
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How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis
Fisher did not take Neyman and Pearson’s criticisms well. In response, he called their methods…
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Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground
Still, wherever there’s mining activity, there’s potential for spills. There’s also potential for a lot…
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How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe
Genetic testing company 23andMe, once a Silicon Valley darling valued at $6 billion, filed for…
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Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time
Carbon dioxide has been detected on a planet outside our solar system for the first…
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The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling
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A Math Couple Solves a Major Group Theory Problem—After 20 Years of Work
But one of Malle’s graduate students was on the case. Britta Späth.“Our Obsession”In 2003, Späth…
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A Mysterious Startup Is Developing a New Form of Solar Geoengineering
Stardust’s prospective clients seem to be governments: As countries consider geoengineering, Stardust could be poised…
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The Art of the Perfect Nap
Done wisely, naps can be a valuable way to boost your focus and energy. A…
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Researchers Rush to Save US Government Data on Trans Youth—Before It Disappears
If you think this sounds familiar, you’re not wrong. When Trump assumed the presidency in…
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Evidence Grows That Dark Energy Changes Over Time
That’s what DESI was designed to do: take precise measurements of the apparent size of…
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Synchron’s Brain-Computer Interface Now Has Nvidia’s AI
Cosmos can also generate tokens about each avatar movement that act like time stamps, which…
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After 9 Months in Space, Stranded NASA Astronauts Return Home
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the US astronauts stranded for nine months on the International…
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How to Protect Your Cats (and Backyard Chickens) From Bird Flu
For cats who enjoy spending time outside, Feah says that leashed walks are a good…
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DOGE’s Cuts at the USDA Could Cause US Grocery Prices to Rise and Invasive Species to Spread
Before he was abruptly fired last month, Derek Copeland worked as a trainer at the…
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Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture
In a 1985 paper, the computer scientist Andrew Yao, who would go on to win…
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Wildfires Are One of Hurricane Helene’s Lasting Legacies
Dozens of other fires broke out in Georgia and western North Carolina, which were both…
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A Tanker Collision Threatens One of the UK’s Most Important Coastlines
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.An oil tanker carrying…
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Can’t Wrap Your Head Around Pi? Here’s a Cool Visual to Help
Pi is an irrational number, and like some irrational people it just goes on and…
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Covid Vaccines Have Paved the Way for Cancer Vaccines
So the UK government signed two partnerships: one with BioNTech to provide 10,000 patients with…
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Is It Electric or Magnetic? Depends on Where You Stand
If you took introductory physics, you learned about the “fundamental forces.” It goes something like…
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One Photographer’s Quest to Redefine the Shark
I expected to meet a dreaded “man-eater,” but when I saw it, I realized that…
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This Is How Measles Kills
The phenomenon is known as immune amnesia, and it can leave people vulnerable to other…
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What’s Really Happening With Elon Musk and Those ‘Stranded’ Astronauts?
As a result, the Crew 9 mission launched in September with just two astronauts. Wilmore…
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Mississippi Passes Bill Banning Lab-Grown Meat
The Mississippi House of Representatives just passed a bill banning cultivated meat. This makes Mississippi…
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Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call
This 4G NIB had a shorter than planned shelf life, but even if the mission…
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SpaceX’s Latest Starship Explosion Marks Two Consecutive Failures
SpaceX has contracts with NASA worth approximately $4 billion to design and develop a human-rated…
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New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known
In other words, Hilbert’s 10th problem is undecidable.Mathematicians hoped to follow the same approach to…
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The Extreme Weather Conditions That Drove the Carolina Wildfires
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Scores of wildfires broke…
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The Biggest US Banks Have All Backed Out of a Commitment to Reach Net Zero
Danielle Fugere, president and chief counsel for the shareholder advocacy nonprofit As You Sow, said…
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Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’
Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has filed applications with the United States Patent and…
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Want to Live Longer, Healthier, and Happier? Then Cultivate Your Social Connections
Social scientist Kasley Killam has always been fascinated by the science of human connection. In…
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If Ukraine Loses Starlink, Here Are the Best Alternatives
For years, Ukrainian officials have hinted that they are working on Starlink alternatives. But the…
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An Overdiagnosis Epidemic Is Harming Patients’ Mental Health
However, what has happened now is that we have a massive increase in autism, and…
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US State Department Kills Global Air Monitoring Program Researchers Say Paid for Itself
The State Department’s air quality program eventually became an example of a smart, efficient diplomacy…
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Airplanes of the Future Could Be Fitted with Feather-Like Flaps
These findings could be hugely important for the future of the aviation industry. Climate change…
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Scientists Just Created a ‘Woolly Mouse’ With Mammoth-Like Fur
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences has gene-edited mice to have mammoth-like features, creating what the company…
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How to See the Total Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon This Month
Astronomy lovers in America will be treated to a great show in this month. In…
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A Lethal Mystery Illness Spread in Congo. USAID Cuts Have Slowed the Response
Consequences of the United States rapidly slashing foreign aid are reverberating across the world, including…
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The US Solar Power Industry Is Trying to Rebrand as MAGA-Friendly
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Seamus Fitzgerald…
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How Do You Detect Hallucinations in AI-Generated Text?
Detect Hallucinations in AI-Generated Text AI-generated text has become increasingly sophisticated, making it challenging to…
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Appalachians Are Trapped in a Disastrous Cycle of Flooding and Rebuilding
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.On Valentine’s Day 2025,…
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These Plants Photosynthesize Deep in the Arctic Even When There’s No Light
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Most of life’s engines run on…
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Texas Official Warns Against ‘Measles Parties’ Amid Growing Outbreak
A Texas health authority is warning against “measles parties” as the outbreak in West Texas…
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The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising
An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds…
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DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica | WIRED
Staffers have already pushed back. “People have been painting waste bins saying “Antarctica is for…
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USAID Was Promised Emergency Waivers for Ebola and AIDS. They’re Not Working
“Uganda’s Ebola outbreak occurred on the same day as the foreign aid freeze. Despite that,…
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Czym jest Dell Command Update?
Dell Command Update Dell Command Update to narzędzie stworzone przez firmę Dell, które pozwala użytkownikom…
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The US May Start Vaccinating Chickens Against Bird Flu
In the US, poultry vaccination would likely focus on egg-laying chickens, as opposed to broiler…
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A Deadly Unidentified Disease Has Emerged in the DRC
A mysterious disease with Ebola-like symptoms has emerged in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.…
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Did a Rock Hit Your Windshield, or Did Your Windshield Hit a Rock?
Now the ball behaves more like you would expect. Its horizontal velocity decreases so that…
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Costa Rica Is Saving Forest Ecosystems by Listening to Them
Monica Retamosa was in the middle of changing the batteries of a tape recorder when…
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Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large…
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Nearly 100 Measles Cases Have Been Reported in Texas
Ninety cases of measles have been reported in Texas in less than a month, marking…
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DOGE Is Inside the National Institutes of Health’s Finance System
Four representatives of Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force have been…
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A Jumping Lunar Robot Is About to Explore a Pitch-Black Moon Crater for the First Time
A new age of commercial moon exploration is upon us, and one of the most…
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The Saw-Toothed Function That Broke Calculus
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Calculus is a powerful mathematical tool.…
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Why Is Chocolate So Expensive Right Now?
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Just four…
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Microsoft’s New Majorana 1 Processor Could Transform Quantum Computing
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Researchers at Microsoft have…
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The Ozempic Shortage Is Over
The US Food and Drug Administration has determined that semaglutide is no longer in shortage,…
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This New Drug Could Help End the HIV Epidemic—but US Funding Cuts Are Killing Its Rollout
“It requires a nice healthy demand to ensure that for each of the generic companies,…
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The Lunar Economy Is Coming
The lunar economy, complete with its own supply chain, may seem like a distant concept,…
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USDA Layoffs Derail Projects Benefiting American Farmers
The widespread layoff of Department of Agriculture scientists has thrown vital research into disarray, according…
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Jak zmienić domyślną przeglądarkę na komputerze Dell?
przeglądarkę na komputerze Dell Domyślna przeglądarka internetowa to ta, która automatycznie otwiera się po kliknięciu…
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Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit
Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more…
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Mobulas, an Aquatic Wonder of the Gulf of California, Are Disappearing
Years ago, on the Gulf of California, Palacios began implanting small acoustic devices in rays…
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Czy monitor Dell ma podświetlenie bez migotania?
monitor Dell ma podświetlenie bez migotania Monitor ma podświetlenie, które oświetla panel LCD, aby pomóc…
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National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues
The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning…
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A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here
Quantum computing has enormous potential, but it faces a scalability problem. For such a machine…
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This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Computer scientists often deal with abstract…
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Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the…
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For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess
Could a private company create forecasts on its own without NOAA data?It would be difficult…
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Your Love Life on Ozempic
When it comes to erectile dysfunction, sleep is often an overlooked factor, says Petar Bajic,…
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How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out
Stoiber and her colleagues at EWG keep an eye on the consumer-grade water filtration systems…
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California’s Problem Now Isn’t Fire—It’s Rain
California’s weather whiplash has been a problem dating back centuries, or more. Fire is a…
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A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors
So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming…
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Which Countries and Regions Might Be Impacted by Asteroid 2024 YR4?
Asteroid 2024 YR4, measuring approximately 40 to 100 meters wide, will pass very close to…
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Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists
A week after the inauguration, US senator Rand Paul of Kentucky issued a flurry of…
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It’s Spring on Mars—and That Means Violently Explosive Geysers and Avalanches
When the frozen carbon dioxide has all melted in the summer, distinctive marks are revealed…
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NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’
The 2022 report includes an analysis of 82 universities, the indirect cost rate they receive…
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How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World
At the world’s most renowned meteorite show, in Ensisheim in France, I noticed there were…
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Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change
This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As part…
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Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Prochlorococcus bacteria are so small that…
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The USAID Shutdown Puts Millions of African Lives at Risk
Last year alone, the US contributed $3.7 billion in humanitarian aid to sub-Saharan Africa. At…
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Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Many of us have…
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Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire
A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first…
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Donald Trump’s NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal
Carl Bergstrom, a theoretical and evolutionary biologist, believes the journal is part of an ongoing…
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This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE)…
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NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’
A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US…
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‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now
Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel…
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This Blood Vessel Was Grown in a Lab With Real Human Cells
Each year, about 185,000 people in the United States undergo amputation. Nearly half of those…
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The Federal Funding Freeze Will Cause Lasting Damage to Medical Research
Science is, in its very nature, collaborative. Many consortiums and alliances within scientific fields cross…
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These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea
When I spoke with Guldin in December, after the first stage of the pilot had…
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Moon or Mars? The US Might Face a Tough Choice for Future Missions
The optimal fuel route for Mars involves arriving when the two planets are roughly on…
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Why Computer Scientists Need Magic 8 Ball-Like Oracles
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Pose a question to a Magic…
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RFK Jr.’s Organic Crusade Has Sparked a Weird Political Realignment
It also puts him on a collision course with people who worry that a switch…
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RFK Jr.’s Senate Testimony Is Haunted by His Track Record
But Kennedy’s prior record of discrediting vaccines and his connection to the anti-vaccine movement was…
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Washington, DC, Plane Crash: Everything We Know So Far
Investigators are scrambling to figure out why a military helicopter and a passenger airplane collided…
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Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social…
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Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety
Environmental advocates warned that the order could have immediate and dire consequences for Americans if…
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Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality
Slowly but surely, we are making good on the gadgets we imagined, as kids, that…
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The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues
Karen Short, a research ecologist with the Forest Service who contributed to the study and…
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Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Far from being solo operators, most…
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The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The rapid spread of…
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This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin
What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks…
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5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know
All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You…
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How Invasive Plants Are Fueling California’s Wildfire Crisis
Fire has always shaped the landscape in California. But today it burns hotter, more frequently,…
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This Company Wants to Build a Space Station That Has Artificial Gravity
California-based Vast Space has big ambitions. The company is aiming to launch a commercial space…
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The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One
As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has…
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Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster
In the summer of 2020, 15 recognized leaders in US public health gathered to author…
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Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis
On his first day in office, President Trump has signed a slew of executive orders…
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Why It’s So Confusing to Determine Air Quality in Los Angeles Right Now
AirNow’s fire map includes data from PurpleAir sensors (represented by small circles on the map),…
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Influencers Are Hawking Wellness Products in Response to the LA Fires
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As…
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There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
But that wasn’t obvious. They’d have to analyze a special set of functions, called Type…
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Why Dumping Seawater on Blazes Isn’t the Answer to California’s Wildfire Problem
Our coastal forest showed little effect from the first 10-hour exposure to salty water in…
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How Fast Turn Circuit Board Manufacturing Reduces Production Time
Fast Turn Circuit Board Manufacturing In a world where technological innovation occurs at breakneck speeds,…
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See 6 Planets Align on January 21
Observing the planets is one of the most awe-inspiring ways to witness the magic of…
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HDI PCBs for Signal Processing Applications
HDI PCBs for Signal Processing High-speed signal transmission and processing are vital for today’s electronic…
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Can You Get Rich Using a Raspberry Pi to Mine Cryptocurrency?
After the first 20 minutes, the water temperature seemed to increase at a fairly constant…
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An Entire Book Was Written in DNA—and You Can Buy It for $60
As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists…
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Check Out These Extraordinary New Images of Mercury
At 06:59 Central European time time on January 8, the BepiColombo spacecraft successfully performed its…
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Los Angeles Needs to Fireproof Communities, Not Just Houses
The planners and residents working to rebuild Los Angeles won’t be starting from a blank…
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The Brightest Comet of 2025 Is Coming. Here’s How You Can See It Shine
Hot on the tail of the Quadrantids meteor shower, another spectacle in the sky is…
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GPS Is Vulnerable to Attack. Magnetic Navigation Can Help
Far above your head, constellations of satellites are working constantly to provide the positioning, navigation,…
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You Have NASA to Thank for Wireless Headphones and Vacuum Cleaners
Many people see space exploration as a waste of resources. Of course, there is the…
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The King of Ozempic Is Scared as Hell
Now that Novo Nordisk is the world’s weight-loss juggernaut, will it have to betray its…
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The Los Angeles Wildfires Have Created Another Problem—Unsafe Drinking Water
Depressurization, the other big contributor to contamination, occurs when firefighting efforts draw massive amounts of…
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Los Angeles Will Remain at High Risk of Fire Into Next Week
Devastating wildfires continued to burn throughout the Los Angeles metro area on Friday, extending mandatory…
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New Superconductive Materials Have Just Been Discovered
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric…
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A Glowing Metal Ring Crashed to Earth. No One Knows Where It Came From
It has been more than a week since reports first emerged about a “glowing ring…
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These Maps Show Just How Dry Southern California Is Right Now
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Dry conditions across Southern…
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Even Trump Can’t Stop America’s Green Transition, Says Biden’s Top Climate Adviser
The second is whether we’re continuing to deal more and more people into the transformation.…
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How Wildfire Smoke Affects Your Health—And How to Protect Yourself
As a series of massive fires continues to blaze through the Los Angeles area, blanketing…
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The Tide Could Finally Be Turning Against the LA Fires
“With those winds being very calm this morning, I believe we can actually make some…
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Human Metapneumovirus Is Finally Being Taken Seriously
Like many other respiratory viruses, Williams says that hMPV tends to impact those with chronic…
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Can a Buried Via Improve Signal Integrity?
Buried Via Improve Signal Integrity A buried via is a specialized type of plated connection…
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California’s Wildfires Show No Signs of Slowing Down
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NASA Wants to Explore the Icy Moons of Jupiter and Saturn With Autonomous Robots
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