SCIENCE
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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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Most Countries Are Reducing Deaths from Heart Disease, Cancer and Diabetes
September 15, 2025 3 min read Death Rates from Chronic Diseases Dropped in Most Countries A report finds that death…
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Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain for Years
September 12, 2025 3 min read Child’s Death Shows How Measles in the Brain Can Kill Years after an Infection…
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Trump’s Health Cuts Make States Struggle to Spot Disease Outbreaks
September 8, 2025 4 min read Trump’s Health Cuts Leave States with Gaping Holes in Disease Surveillance AI now scans…
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Scientists Sequence Bacterial DNA from Germs in Mammoth Teeth
September 6, 2025 3 min read A Mammoth Toothache: Bacterial Community Discovered in Mouth of Ancient Mammoth Genetic-sequencing techniques have…
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The Local Universe May Be Misleading Cosmologists about Dark Energy and Expansion
“You can journey to the ends of the earth in search of success,” 19th-century Baptist preacher Russell Conwell is said…
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