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Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain...

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2025/09/12

A child in Los Angeles County has died from a rare but always fatal brain disorder that develops years after a measles infection. Experts underscore the need for vaccination to protect the most vulnerable

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Forensic Expert Explains How 3D Laser Scanning Could...

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2025/09/12

Forensic scientist Michael Haag explains how laser scanners could be used to lock down the crime scenes where Charlie Kirk was fatally shot, letting investigators revisit angles, trajectories and vantage points long after the fact.

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Is Intermittent Fasting Helpful or Harmful?

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2025/09/12

Whether intermittent fasting helps anyone is unclear, but it does have known health risks. Who can try the dieting trend, and who should avoid it?

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NASA’s JWST Hunts Dark Matter in Stunning Image of...

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2025/09/12

A swarm of galaxies called the Bullet Cluster is the biggest, best natural laboratory for studying dark matter that astronomers have ever seen

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Daniel Yon Explains Why Your Brain Is a Brilliant...

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2025/09/12

In his new book, Daniel Yon explains how our brain is constantly constructing reality

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Polar Geoengineering Debate Rages as Climate Change...

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2025/09/11

Scientists are beginning to take clear sides on whether or not to use human-made interventions to preserve polar ice, such as pumping up seawater or launching aerosols into the atmosphere to cool the planet’s surface

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Magic Mushroom Edibles Found to Contain No Psilocybin

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2025/09/11

Researchers tested 12 “magic mushroom” edibles. None contained psilocybin, but most contained undisclosed ingredients, including synthetic drugs whose safety hasn’t been tested in humans

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Frances Glessner Lee, the Mother of Modern Forensic...

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2025/09/11

How a determined socialite, inspired by true crime, helped professionalize the field of murder investigations

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Big Oil Companies Caused about 25 Percent of Heat...

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2025/09/11

A new study finds that one quarter of heat waves between 2000 and 2023 would have been “virtually impossible” without global warming—and can be attributed to the emissions of individual energy producers

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Early Experiments Show Fast-Acting Antidote Targets...

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2025/09/11

A study in mice and on human blood uses a new protein to snag carbon monoxide before it latches onto blood cells

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How to Send Your Name to the Moon with NASA’s Artemis...

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2025/09/10

The public can submit names to travel along with four astronauts on an orbital journey to the moon next year

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Is There Life on Mars? This Rock May Hold the Answer

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2025/09/10

The Perseverance rover’s new findings set the stage for bringing Martian samples back to Earth to test whether microbes once inhabited the Red Planet

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Best-Yet Measurement of Merging Black Holes Confirms...

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2025/09/10

Spacetime ripples from a black hole collision across the cosmos have confirmed weird aspects of black hole physics

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Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows

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2025/09/10

Scientists will not find a simple answer to how autism arises, despite Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s promise to announce its causes sometime this month. Here’s what makes the condition so staggeringly complex

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Atlantic Hurricane Season Has Gone Quiet. Here’s Why

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2025/09/10

Hurricane activity in the Atlantic basin is historically at its peak on September 10—but not this year

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What Is Alpha-Gal Syndrome? Symptoms, Causes and Way...

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2025/09/10

A single tick bite can trigger a bizarre meat allergy—here’s how alpha-gal syndrome is reshaping people’s diets.

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JWST Sees Hints of an Atmosphere on a Potentially...

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2025/09/09

A monumental sign of an atmosphere on TRAPPIST-1e could be the precursor to finally finding a living world around another star

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A ‘Make America Healthy Again’ Report Goes Easy on...

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2025/09/09

A childhood health report led by RFK, Jr., links poor diet, chemicals, inactivity and “overmedicalization” to worsening U.S. pediatric health

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Trump’s Health Cuts Make States Struggle to Spot...

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2025/09/09

AI now scans for bird flu and measles news, but public health officials say outbreaks can go undetected as the U.S. guts national and global tracking

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U.S. ‘Golden Dome’ Missile Shield Is Short on...

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2025/09/09

A sweeping U.S. missile defense program comes with many risks, costs and uncertainties, analysts say

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