SCIENCE
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Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’s
October 15, 2025 3 min read Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’s Women’s brains age…
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How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope
October 11, 2025 5 min read The Math That Predicted the New Pope A decades-old technique from network science saw…
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Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard Explained | Scientific American
October 8, 2025 3 min read Science behind Record-Breaking Everest Blizzard That Trapped Hundreds A blizzard that trapped hundreds of…
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia,…
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Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to Be a Scientist
Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was…
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Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out
It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable”…
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Lab-Grown Organoids Could Transform Female Reproductive Medicine
In 2017, Ashley Moffett, a reproductive immunologist, walked to the pharmacy near her laboratory at the University of Cambridge, UK,…
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Earthquakes Release Energy Mostly Through Heat, Not Ground Shaking
September 24, 2025 2 min read Most of an Earthquake’s Energy Is Released as Heat, Not Shaking Up to 98…
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2025 Ig Nobel Prizes Awarded for Research on Tipsy Bats and Pasta Physics
Many scientists dream of winning a Nobel Prize, an accolade that brings worldwide recognition, prestige and a place in the…
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How a Contentious CDC Vaccine Meeting Will Affect Public Health
The already tumultuous landscape of U.S. vaccine policy faces more turmoil in what’s anticipated to be a politically charged two-day…
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