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Long-Lived Gamma-Ray Burst Is Unlike Any Seen Before

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2025/11/05

A cosmic explosion known as GRB 250702B is by far the longest gamma-ray burst astronomers have ever seen—if it’s even one at all

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What Is ARFID? Doctors Explain Why the Eating...

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2025/11/05

Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder, or ARFID, can cause malnutrition and weight loss in children and adults even when body image is not a factor

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The Psychology Behind Standing Up and Saying No

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2025/11/05

Why saying no is harder than it should be.

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Gene Editing Helped One Baby—Could It Help Thousands?

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2025/11/04

In a world first, a bespoke gene-editing therapy benefited one child. Now researchers plan to launch a clinical trial of the approach

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The Taurid Meteor Shower May Hide an Impact Threat to...

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2025/11/03

Debris from Comet Encke creates two annual meteor showers, but it might also pose a small risk to Earth. Scientists are investigating

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Why Hurricane Melissa Was One of the Most Powerful...

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2025/11/03

Hurricane Melissa’s rare intensity and lasting impact reveal how storms are evolving in a warming world.

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Measles Elimination Status Threatened in U.S. and Canada

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2025/11/03

A meeting of the Pan AmericanHealthOrganization this week will address the resurgence of measles in the Americas

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Orcas Repeatedly Attack Young Great White Sharks,...

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2025/11/03

An orca pod has been spotted for the first time repeatedly targeting and flipping young great white sharks onto their backs to paralyze and dismember them

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Can AI Music Ever Feel Human? The Answer Goes beyond...

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2025/11/02

A personal experiment with the artificial intelligence music platform Suno’s latest model echoes a new preprint study. Most listeners can’t tell AI music from the real thing, but emotional resonance still demands a human story

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COVID During Pregnancy May Raise Autism Risk, Study...

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2025/11/01

A new study adds to the evidence that viral infections during pregnancy might contribute to a child’s likelihood of having autism

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The End of the International Space Station Will Begin...

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2025/11/01

Humans have been in space onboard the ISS continuously for 25 years. As the station nears its end, new commercial habitats are lining up to take its place

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How Childhood Relationships Affect Your Adult...

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2025/11/01

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood

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How Composers Make Horror Movie Music Sound Terrifying

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2025/10/31

Horror movie composers use musical tricks to hijack your nervous system and put you on edge

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The Interplanetary Race to Study Interstellar Comet...

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2025/10/31

Astronomers are hustling to use interplanetary spacecraft to study the interstellar comet dubbed 3I/ATLAS while the sun is hiding it from Earth

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How Supermassive Black Holes Can Become Cosmic...

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2025/10/31

Huge eruptions from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole in the distant past may have sterilized much of the inner galaxy

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How One Mom Used Vibe Coding to Build an AI Tutor for...

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2025/10/31

Faced with her son’s struggle with dyslexia, one mom built an AI platform to help kids learn their own way

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Why Some Treats Are Trickier for Your Gut Microbiome

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2025/10/31

This Halloween discover how your candy choices can trick—or treat—the microbes in your gut.

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How Are Annual Flu Vaccines Made?

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2025/10/30

Immunologist Zachary Rubin explains how the World Health Organization decides which strains of influenza end up in annual flu vaccines.

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Chimpanzee Metacognition Allows Humanlike Belief...

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2025/10/30

Are we the only rational thinkers? New research on our primate cousins suggests otherwise

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Seismometers Picked Up Hurricane Melissa’s Historic...

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2025/10/30

Seismometers picked up the ferocious winds and waves of Hurricane Melissa, showing how the tools can be used to better understand storms today and those from the past

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