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Whooping Cough Killed Two Children. Here’s How to Prote...

The bacterial infection pertussis has sparked an uptick in cases nationwide and ...

Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Identified

Our conscious awareness may be governed by a structure deep in the brain

Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies

Just as tobacco companies knew they were poisoning people, today’s social media ...

FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection...

An internal FEMA memo says the agency is canceling future and existing grants th...

Tornado Damage Surveys Are a Crucial Tool for Understan...

Damage surveys provide crucial information about when, where and how strong U.S....

Google DeepMind Taught Itself to Play Minecraft

The Dreamer AI system of Google's DeepMind reached the milestone of mastering Mi...

Utah’s Decision to Ban Fluoride Is a Bad Move for Kids

Becoming the first state to ban fluoride is going to cost Utah, both financially...

What Happens When USAID’s Global Public Health Programs...

USAID is responsible for global health efforts that have saved the lives of mill...

How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?

According to new simulations, many, even most, planets get ejected from their st...

There Are 4,000 Species of Native Bees in the U.S.

Scientists estimate there are about 4,000 species of native bees in the U.S.—and...

The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is S...

For a long time, the Kakeya conjecture, which involves rotating an infinitely na...

Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs

Layoffs at the Department of Health and Human Services have dealt a critical blo...

Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to R...

Studying how extraterrestrials might communicate could help prepare for first co...

Secretive Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery O...

A trio of classified Russian satellites, called Kosmos, has sparked intrigue in ...

Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought

Bonobos’ grunts, peeps and whistles may share an advanced linguistic property wi...

JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope show that the potentially h...

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