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New RSV Preventives Dramatically Reduce Infant...

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2025/09/23

The year 2023 marked the debut of groundbreaking innovations to prevent severe RSV infections in infants. Now protected babies are way less likely to develop severe infections or to end up in the ICU

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The Promise of RSV Prevention

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2025/09/23

RSV is the leading cause of infant hospitalizations in the U.S. But that could soon change as research advances lead to new preventive drugs for everyone

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The Final RSV Frontier Is within Reach

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2025/09/23

The journey toward an RSV vaccine for children has been wrought with tragedy and setbacks. But six decades after scientists embarked on that path, they are nearing the finish line

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The Fight to End Childhood RSV in Indian Country

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2025/09/23

American Indian and Alaska Native infants experience the highest rates of RSV-related hospitalization in the U.S., but a breakthrough immunization is helping to close the gap

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James Webb Space Telescope Finds Atmosphere on Lava...

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2025/09/23

Hot, small and old—exoplanet TOI-561 b is just about the worst place to look for alien air. Scientists using JWST found it there anyway

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Tylenol Is Popular and Safe, Yet Nobody Knows How It...

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2025/09/22

The common pain reliever is safe when used as directed, research shows. But scientists remain puzzled by one aspect: how it reduces pain and fever

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Announcing the #SciAmInTheWild Photography Contest...

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2025/09/22

To celebrate Scientific American’s 180th anniversary, we invited readers to place our magazine covers in the wild. See our staff’s favorite submissions

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Does Tylenol Use during Pregnancy Cause Autism? What...

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2025/09/22

President Trump and Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., have tied Tylenol use during pregnancy and folate deficiencies to rising autism rates—but the evidence is thin

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Magnitude 4.3 Earthquake Strikes San Francisco Bay Area

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2025/09/22

The San Francisco Bay Area was rattled early this morning by a magnitude 4.3 earthquake along the Hayward fault line

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‘Almost Impossible’ Deep-Earth Diamonds Confirm How...

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2025/09/22

Seemingly contradictory materials are trapped together in two glittering diamonds from South Africa, shedding light on how diamonds form

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Inside the Mysterious Smuggling of the El Ali Meteorite

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2025/09/22

How a space rock vanished from Africa and showed up for sale across an ocean

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Vaccine Panel Overhaul, Head Trauma in Sports, and...

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2025/09/22

A revamped CDC advisory committee faces vaccine debates, studies reveal brain changes in athletes, and climate change drives deadly heat waves across Europe.

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2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy...

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2025/09/19

Winners of the annual Ig Nobel awards include the science of tipsy bats and the physics of cacio e pepe

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Go Ahead, Write in the Margins—It’s Good for Your Brain

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2025/09/19

Annotating the margins of books is an important partof deep reading and has a long legacy of merit in both science and literature

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NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

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2025/09/19

It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows

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How to Weigh a Black Hole

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2025/09/19

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multiple methods to measure the heft of these galactic gluttons

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'Etymology Nerd' Adam Aleksic on How Internet Culture...

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2025/09/19

Linguist Adam Aleksic explains how viral slang and algorithm-driven speech aren’t destroying language––they’re accelerating its natural evolution.

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Aftershock of July’s 8.8 Earthquake Strikes...

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2025/09/18

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose from July’s magnitude 8.8 earthquake is raising concerns about possible tsunami impacts, although risk appears to be waning

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New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone...

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2025/09/18

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and lifestyle to provide risk estimates for more than 1,000 diseases

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Genetics Can Track How Languages Mixed in the Past

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2025/09/18

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as well

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