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Math Puzzle: Falling Through

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2025/11/18

Solve a holey shape conundrum in this math puzzle

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Can AI ‘Griefbots’ Help Us Heal?

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2025/11/18

What can AI “griefbots” do for those in mourning?

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Poem: ‘The Covert Herbarium of Cryptogamic Botany’

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2025/11/18

Science in meter and verse

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New Pill Can Save Moms from Postpartum Depression...

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2025/11/18

Deep emotional distress after birth kills many mothers. A new kind of drug offers better, faster treatment

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NASA’s Mars Sample Return Mission in Jeopardy as U.S....

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2025/11/18

NASA spent years and billions of dollars collecting Martian samples to bring home. Now they might be stranded

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Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer...

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2025/11/18

Vaccines based on mRNA can be tailored to target a cancer patient’s unique tumor mutations. But crumbling support for cancer and mRNA vaccine research has endangered this promising therapy

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How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Driving Plastic...

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2025/11/18

To keep profits rolling in, oil and gas companies want to turn fossil fuels into a mounting pile of packaging and other plastic products

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Transplant Rejection Is a Major Hurdle for Pig...

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2025/11/17

In a successful transplant in a man with brain death, scientists prevented the immune system from attacking a genetically modified pig kidney for 61 days, the longest such an experiment has lasted

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The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to...

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2025/11/17

A thin crescent moon and dark skies could give watchers a clear view of this astronomical event

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How Forbes Sent E-mails to the Future—And What...

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2025/11/17

Twenty years ago Forbes.com sent hundreds of thousands of messages to the future. Here’s what happened next

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Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup...

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2025/11/15

Quark-gluon plasma, a bizarre state of matter that mimics the early cosmos, is the hottest thing ever made on Earth

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Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies...

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2025/11/14

People with this autoimmune disease face much shorter life expectancies in lower-income nations.

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Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

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2025/11/14

The U.S. Office of the Director of National Intelligence released long-promised records related to vanished pioneering aviator Amelia Earhart. More records are promised on a rolling basis

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Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

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2025/11/14

Thousands of years ago, a space rock hit what is now China, leaving a bowl-shaped crater some 900 meters wide

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Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating...

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2025/11/14

Lone star tick bites are the most common cause of alpha-gal syndrome, which causes severe allergic reactions to red meat

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Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with...

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2025/11/14

The same region on the sun that’s responsible for this week’s stunning auroral display just erupted in another powerful solar flare early on Friday morning

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New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s...

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2025/11/14

NASA’s presumptive next leader wants to outsource more of the space agency’s interplanetary science. The newly launched ESCAPADE mission to Mars offers a sanity check for those plans

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Woolly Mammoth Unlocks Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA

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2025/11/14

RNA has been extracted from an ancient woolly mammoth, providing insight into its last moments on Earth

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Stranded Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth, but...

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2025/11/14

The Shenzhou 20 spacecraft was too damaged to bring its crew home from China’s Tiangong space station. Those astronauts have now returned via the Shenzhou 21 craft, leaving its crew without a return ride until the nation sends a new spacecraft to the station

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Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

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2025/11/14

City-dwelling raccoons seem to be evolving a shorter snout—a telltale feature of our pets and other domesticated animals

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