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Math Puzzle: Find the Time

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2025/10/14

Decode a confusing clock in this math puzzle

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Saving the Vision of People with Diabetic Retinopathy

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2025/10/14

Diabetic eye disease robs sight from millions. But there are often ways to save vision

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November 2025: Science History from 50, 100 and 150...

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2025/10/14

Curveballs; poison wallpaper

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Three Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Can Really Fight...

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2025/10/14

Experts say the strongest scientific studies identify three compounds that fight disease and inflammation

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Advances in Type 1 Diabetes Science and Tech

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2025/10/14

Living with type 1 diabetes today is leaps and bounds easier than it was decades ago. Things are only getting better

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SpaceX’s Starship Succeeds in Final Test Flight of 2025

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2025/10/14

With the successful 11th test flight of its Starship megarocket, SpaceX is on the cusp of a new era in spaceflight

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Coral Die-Off Marks Earth’s First Climate ‘Tipping...

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2025/10/13

A surge in global temperatures has caused widespread coral reef bleaching and death around the world

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Nobel Prize Winner Shimon Sakaguchi Reflects on How...

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2025/10/13

Nobel laureate Shimon Sakaguchi reflects on the role of regulatory T cells in peripheral immune tolerance and how the cells could transform treatment for cancer, autoimmune disease and organ transplant rejection

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Moving NASA Space Shuttle to Texas from DC Could...

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2025/10/13

Texas lawmakers want to move the Smithsonian’s retired space shuttle to Houston. It’s “a vanity project that is apt to destroy a near-priceless American treasure,” one historian says

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Scientists Map Microbiome Hidden Deep inside Tree Trunks

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2025/10/13

Trees’ inner heartwood harbors methane-producing microbes adapted to oxygen-poor swamps and cow guts

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2025 Nobel Prize Winners in Medicine, Physics and...

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2025/10/13

The CDC updates COVID vaccine guidance and stirs controversy over childhood immunizations. And global health experts warn of rising child malnutrition in Gaza.

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How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope

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2025/10/11

A decades-old technique from network science saw something in the papal conclave that AI missed

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OpenAI’s New Sora App Lets Users Generate AI...

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2025/10/10

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

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Part of a Pig Liver was Transplanted into a Human

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2025/10/10

Surgeons in China transplanted part of pig liver into a patient with an incurable cancerous tumor, and it functioned for more than a month

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The Science Behind Peak Fall Colors: What to Expect...

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2025/10/10

If you want to know where the best leaf peeping will be this year, climate science and weather can provide the answer

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Alzheimer’s-Related Biomarker Found at Elevated...

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2025/10/10

Researchers hope the finding could point to new therapeutic approaches for the disease

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The San Andreas and Cascadia Earthquake Faults May Be...

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2025/10/10

Samples from the seafloor reveal evidence of several earthquakes along the West Coast’s two major fault zones happening in quick succession over the past 3,000 years

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Can You See the Earth and Moon from Mars?

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2025/10/10

If you pick the right time, our home world and our moon could be easily visible from the Red Planet

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Inside the Medical Challenges of Presidential Health...

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2025/10/10

A former White House physician reveals the medical realities of caring for the president of the U.S.

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RFK, Jr., Cites ‘Truly Appalling’ Studies to Tie...

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2025/10/09

Studies suggesting circumcision rates are linked with autism are “riddled with flaws”

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