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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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Birds Went Silent during the Great North American...

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2025/10/09

The “Great North American Eclipse” of April 2024 was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to study how birds and other wildlife respond to total solar eclipses

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This Bat Recorded Itself Catching and Eating a...

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2025/10/09

Scientists suspected that Europe’s largest bats snack on migrating songbirds when they can, but a stunning newly published observation proves it

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Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard Explained

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2025/10/09

A blizzard that trapped hundreds of trekkers on Mount Everest was truly “off the charts,” experts explain

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How Bacteria Use CRISPR to Vaccinate against Viruses

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2025/10/09

New research shows how microbes use napping viruses to vaccinate themselves

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AI Can Predict Cat Health From Litter Box Visits

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2025/10/09

Cat bathroom data from an AI-powered litter box could offer useful pet health insights

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The Confusion Over Antidepressants During Pregnancy...

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2025/10/08

By casting doubt on antidepressants and other well-studied drugs, our government health agencies are choosing minimal risk to a fetus over the major risk to the person carrying it

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New Study Finds Annual COVID Vaccines Protect People...

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2025/10/08

A new study shows that receiving an updated COVID vaccine reduced people’s risk of severe disease and death in all age groups, regardless of immunity from prior infection or vaccination

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This Year’s Nobel Physics Prize Showed Quantum...

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2025/10/08

The Nobel Prize in Physics for 2025 honors scaled-up quantum physics—while sidestepping controversies swirling around quantum computing

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