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A Company Is Building a Giant Compressed-Air Battery in the Australian Outback
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The Uncomfortable Truth About the UK’s Climate Policies
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The Mysterious ‘Dark’ Energy That Permeates the Universe Is Slowly Eroding
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1 in 3 Americans Live in Areas With Dangerous Air Pollution
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Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
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How Thin Can Flex Circuit Boards Be?
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How NASA Repaired Voyager 1 From 15 Billion Miles Away
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We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
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NASA Confirms Where the Space Junk That Hit a Florida House Came From
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The Quest to Map the Inside of the Proton
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Space Force Is Planning a Military Exercise in Orbit
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Europe Rules That Insufficient Climate Change Action Is a Human Rights Violation
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This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People
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Watch Neuralink’s First Human Subject Demonstrate His Brain-Computer Interface
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Google DeepMind’s New AI Model Can Help Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
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How to Live Forever
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Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
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A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon
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Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate Danger Zones
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A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
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States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
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Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
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How Do Heat Pumps Work?
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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
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A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound
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Climate Finance Is Targeting the Wrong Industries
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Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
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A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine
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Spain’s Tragic Tower Block Fire Exposes the World’s Failing Fire Regulations
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Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That
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US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day
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Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
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Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time
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A Discarded Plan to Build Underwater Cities Will Give Coral Reefs New Life
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A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber
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There’s a New Theory About Where Dark Matter Is Hiding
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Frequent Heavy Rain Has Made California a Mudslide Hotspot
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Odysseus Marks the First US Moon Landing in More Than 50 Years
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Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
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Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
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Neuralink’s First Brain Implant Is Working. Elon Musk’s Transparency Isn’t
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A Startup’s Mission to Bring Back the Woolly Mammoth Is Being Made Into a Docuseries
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Measles Strikes a Florida Elementary School With Over 100 Unvaccinated Kids
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Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
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Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
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Smoking Alters Your Immune System for Years After You Quit
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Google’s Chess Experiments Reveal How to Boost the Power of AI
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A Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
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All That Rain Is Driving Up Cases of a Deadly Fungal Disease in California
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The Feds Just Bet Even Bigger on American-Made Heat Pumps
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Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
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Fake Caviar Invented in the 1930s Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution
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Ocean Temperatures Keep Shattering Records—and Stunning Scientists
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Leading Lab-Grown Meat Company Upside Foods Just Paused a Major Expansion
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Wild Animals Should Be Paid for the Benefits They Provide Humanity
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Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
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Who Tests If Heat-Proof Clothing Actually Works? These Poor Sweating Mannequins
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The City of Tomorrow Will Run on Your Toilet Water
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A Celebrated Cryptography-Breaking Algorithm Just Got an Upgrade
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Countries Are Building Giant ‘Sand Motors’ to Protect Their Coasts From Erosion
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Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?
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NASA Engineers Are Racing to Fix Voyager 1
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NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
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This Small Wearable Device Reduces Parkinson’s Symptoms
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These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
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A Study at the Center of the Abortion Pill Battle Was Just Retracted
Scientific publisher Sage Journals has retracted three papers on abortion—including a controversial 2021 study on…
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How to Guarantee the Safety of Autonomous Vehicles
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The US Has Big Plans for Wind Energy—but an Obscure 1920s Law Is Getting in the Way
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Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
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You Can’t Buy Lab-Grown Meat Even If You Wanted To
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A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
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Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
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Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains
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Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
Elon Musk said on the social media platform X on Monday that the first human…
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Scientists Just Discovered a New Type of Magnetism
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Texas Is Already Running Out of Water
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Inside the DIY Movement to Fight Coastal Erosion
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How to Convince Your Flat-Earth Friends the Earth Is Round
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Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space
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The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
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6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
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The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
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Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
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The World’s First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
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Cryptographers Are Getting Closer to Enabling Fully Private Internet Searches
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Why the Polar Vortex Is Bad for Balloon Artists
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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
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Trawling Boats Are Hauling Up Ancient Carbon From the Ocean Depths
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Scabies Is Making a Comeback
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How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
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California Is Solving Its Water Problems by Flooding Its Best Farmland
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A Scandal Is Tearing the World of Record-Breaking Dogs Apart
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These Mining Companies Are Ready to Raid the Seabed
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The Boeing 737 Max Crisis Reignites Arguments Over Infant Safety on Planes
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A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
The purpose of the current trial is to assess the gel’s safety and longevity, not…
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This Ultrasound Bra Could Detect Cancer Sooner
In 2015, Canan Dağdeviren was working as a postdoc at MIT when she learned that…
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Former NBA Star Rick Fox Is Making a Play for Carbon-Neutral Concrete
Rick Fox has spent a lot of time in Hollywood, so naturally he has more…
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The Plan to Put Pig Genes in Soy Beans for Tastier Fake Meat
For Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini…
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What Are ‘Missed Period Pills,’ and How Do They Work?
Cari Siestra first learned about menstrual regulation when they were working on the Myanmar-Thailand border.…
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20 Things That Made the World a Better Place in 2023
It’s been hard recently to think about anything other than the wars and humanitarian crises…
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These Rogue Worlds Upend the Theory of How Planets Form
“We know from direct imaging searches of young stars that very few stars have giant…
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