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Flu Cases Surge Early in Japan, Sparking Global...

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2025/10/17

School closures and hospitalizations from an unexpected early spike in flu cases in Japan has experts concerned about what lies ahead for other countries

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How to See Comet Lemmon and the Orionids Meteor...

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2025/10/17

A comet visible to the naked eye will make its closest approach to Earth on October 21

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What Is a Quasar? The Answer Depends on Your Point of...

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2025/10/17

Voracious supermassive black holes light up the cores of “active” galaxies across the universe. How we see them, however, is a matter of perspective

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The El Ali Meteorite’s Journey from Landmark to Loot

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2025/10/17

A massive Somali meteorite containing never-before-seen-on-Earth minerals vanished into the black market, raising ethical questions about science and ownership.

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A Solution to the CIA’s Kryptos Code Is Found after...

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2025/10/16

After decades of speculation, two writers uncovered the answer to the Kryptos code’s final cipher

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How the Government Shutdown Is Impacting Science and...

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2025/10/16

Hundreds of people at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended

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Parrondo’s Paradox Explains How Two Losing Strategies...

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2025/10/16

In certain circumstances, losses create a sure path to victory, an idea with implications for biology and cancer therapy

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How ‘Wood Vaulting’ Could Help Slow Climate Change

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2025/10/16

Wood vaulting, a simple, low-tech approach to storing carbon, has the potential to remove 12 billion tons of carbon dioxide from the atmosphere every year—and some companies are already trying it

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Jake Paul’s Deepfake Gambit Sparks Debate over Sora...

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2025/10/16

New video apps like Sora could turn faces into moneymaking assets and hint at a future where everyone can rent out their digital likeness

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Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That...

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2025/10/15

Women’s brains age more slowly than men’s, but they still have higher rates of Alzheimer’s disease

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Why Lung Cancer Is Increasing among Nonsmoking Women...

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2025/10/15

Thoracic surgeon Jonathan Villena explains why early screening for lung cancer is critical—even for those without symptoms.

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CDC Cuts Threaten Public Health Nationwide, Fired...

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2025/10/14

A quarter of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention staff is gone after the Trump administration’s latest reductions in force and earlier layoffs

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Nobel Prize in Economics Awarded for Research on...

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2025/10/14

Joel Mokyr, Philippe Aghion and Peter Howitt share the Nobel economics prize for work that underlines the importance of investing in research and development

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What is Type 1 Diabetes? Here’s Your 5-Minute Primer

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2025/10/14

What happens when your body suddenly stops making the one hormone that keeps your blood sugar in check?

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Has JWST Finally Found an Exomoon?

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2025/10/14

Data from the James Webb Space Telescope and other observatories suggests a supervolcanic exomoon may lurk around the giant exoplanet WASP-39b

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Immigrants Make Up More Than 30 Percent of Nobel...

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2025/10/14

Of the 202 Nobel laureates in physics, chemistry and physiology or medicine this century, fewer than 70 percent hail from the country in which they were awarded their prize. These graphics trace their journeys

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New DNA Search Engine Brings Order to Biology’s Big Data

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2025/10/14

MetaGraph compresses vast data archives into a search engine for scientists, opening up new frontiers of biological discovery

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What Brain Science Reveals about Ethical Decline and...

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2025/10/14

Your brain gets used to wrongdoing. It can also get used to doing good

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Complex Life May Have Evolved Multiple Times

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2025/10/14

Controversial evidence hints that complex life might have emerged hundreds of millions of years earlier than previously thought—and possibly more than once

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Why Building an Artificial Pancreas for People with...

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2025/10/14

How a father’s love, entrepreneurship and tech advances could lead to a working artificial pancreas

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