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South Africa’s Coast Is Rising—And Scientists Have a...

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2025/10/07

Human water management contributes to sinking land across the globe, and it may also be responsible for an unexpected rise

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Fired CDC Director Susan Monarez Speaks Out on...

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2025/10/06

“I would never do that, as a scientist,” Susan Monarez says of being asked to approve changes to vaccine recommendations without knowing the details

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Stunning Cat Photos Reveal Feline Science

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2025/10/06

Tim Flach captures his fascination with the science of cats in stunning photographs from his new book Feline

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Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in...

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2025/10/06

Mathematicians have found a new way to predict how prime numbers behave

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Saturn’s Moon Enceladus May Harbor Life. Study Finds...

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2025/10/06

Saturn’s moon Enceladus shows signs of life-supporting chemistry, fungi may have shaped Earth before plants, and repeat COVID infections raise long-term health risks for kids.

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2025 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine Awarded...

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2025/10/06

Mary E. Brunkow, Fred Ramsdell and Shimon Sakaguchi shared the Nobel prize for their work on peripheral immune tolerance, a process that is key to organ transplants and treatment of autoimmune diseases

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Is Dark Energy Born inside Black Holes?

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2025/10/04

A controversial prediction about black holes and the expansion force of the universe could explain a cosmology mystery

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Ocean Acidification Threshold Pushes Earth Past...

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2025/10/03

Earth has breached a critical boundary for ocean acidification, with potentially grim effects for ocean ecosystems and human livelihoods

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What is Knot Theory? Solve These Puzzles to Find Out

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2025/10/03

Learn the fundamentals of the burgeoning field of knot theory while solving some puzzles along the way

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How Can Galaxies Recede from Us Faster Than the Speed...

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2025/10/03

When space itself expands, weird things can happen—like galaxies breaking the universe’s ultimate speed limit

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An Anechoic Chamber at Nokia Bell Labs Reveals the...

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2025/10/03

Step into a room so quiet you can hear your own heartbeat—and your nervous system.

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Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to...

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2025/10/02

Here are three big ways that Jane Goodall transformed science

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This U.S. Government Shutdown Is Very Bad for Science

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2025/10/02

President Trump’s budget office lays out guidelines for mass federal lay-offs as the U.S. government grinds to a halt

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How Many People Have Ever Lived on Earth?

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2025/10/02

Is it really possible that half of all people who have ever been age 65 or older are still alive today? We explore the amazing mathematics of demography to find out

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Jane Goodall, Conservationist Who Transformed Our...

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2025/10/01

The anthropologist was famous for her pioneering research with chimpanzees and her influence on conservation

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First Treatment that Slows Huntington's Disease Comes...

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2025/10/01

After years of heartbreak, researchers have found an experimental treatment that can slow the progression of Huntington’s disease, according to early results from a small clinical trial

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U.S. Military Continues mRNA Vaccine Research after...

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2025/10/01

The Department of Defense funds biomedical research to ensure military and pandemic preparedness. This includes mRNA vaccine projects that RFK, Jr., recently defunded

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How Genetics and Diet Helped the World’s Oldest Woman...

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2025/10/01

Maria Branyas Morera was the oldest person in the world when she died. Scientists analysed her genes, metabolism and more

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Engineered Microbes Pull Critical Minerals from...

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2025/10/01

Biomining uses engineered microbes to harvest critical minerals

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Demetre Daskalakis on RFK, Jr., Vaccine Schedule...

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2025/10/01

The former director of a CDC center reveals how political ideology is undermining science, threatening vaccine policy and endangering public health across the U.S.

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