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How to See the Lunar Far Side Right Here on Earth

Perspective and subtle motion allows us to peek over the moon’s edge and into it...

How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu?

Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. ...

FDA Recalls Heart Pumps Linked to Deaths and Injuries

Two medical devices that mechanically pump blood to the heart have caused hundre...

Deadly African Heat Wave Would Not Have Been Possible w...

Scientists say extreme temperatures that reached 119 degrees Fahrenheit and kill...

It’s Time to Act on Pilots’ Mental Health

Mental health recommendations for pilots and air traffic controllers bring new i...

The Theoretical Physicist Who Worked with J. Robert Opp...

Melba Phillips co-authored a paper with J. Robert Oppenheimer in 1935 that prove...

Mathematicians Explain Why Some Lengths Can’t Be Measured

Can you assign a size to every object? The surprising answer is no

AI Report Shows ‘Startlingly Rapid’ Progress—And Balloo...

A new report finds that AI matches or outperforms people at tasks such as compet...

It’s Time to Act on Pilot’s Mental Health

Mental health recommendations for pilots and air traffic controllers bring new i...

This Nearly 50-Foot Snake Was One of the Largest to Sli...

Fossilized vertebrae that were found in an Indian coal mine belonged to a gigant...

Earth’s Coral Reefs Face a New, Deadly Mass Bleaching. ...

“A mass bleaching event is, by definition, a mass mortality event,” a leading co...

SpaceX’s Starship Could Save NASA’s Beleaguered Mars Sa...

Facing budgetary pressure for its Mars Sample Return program, NASA has turned to...

What Philosopher Ibn Sina Can Teach Us about AI

A philosopher who lived centuries before artificial intelligence might be able t...

Hollywood Should Give Brain Science a Star Turn

Movies and TV shows frequently depict physical and biological sciences well, but...

A Dengue Fever Outbreak Is Setting Records in the Americas

At least 2.1 million cases of dengue fever have been reported in North and South...

Spiderlike Mars Robot Might One Day Crawl through Unexp...

This eight-legged probe would scour Mars’s underground lava tubes for places whe...

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