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Hurricane Helene Made Me a Climate Change Refugee

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives,...

Today’s Mathematicians Seek Modern Solutions to Complex...

Today’s mathematicians grapple with higher-order mathematical questions and real...

How Dark Is the Night Sky?

The night sky isn’t perfectly dark—instead it glows faintly, and the source isn’...

How the 2024 Election Will Shape the Future of AI

Both U.S. presidential candidates voice support for innovation in AI, but Kamala...

Harris' Focus on Maternal Health Care Gains Support Amo...

Polls show an increased number of Black women voters back Kamala Harris. Her emp...

In Floods like Hurricane Helene’s, Toxic Chemicals Are ...

People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemic...

Hurricane Helene Survivors Face a Second Disaster—Insur...

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carol...

Where Did All the Thalidomide Pills Distributed in the ...

 FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to ...

Why Mount Everest Is the World’s Tallest Mountain

A model suggests a massive uplift caused by a phenomenon called “river piracy” p...

How to Save the World from Apocalyptic Asteroids

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, tha...

What Linguistic Analysis from the 2024 Debates Reveals ...

Linguist and sociophonetician Nicole Holliday analyzes the language used by cand...

Hard Nuclear Weapons Choices Await Harris or Trump as P...

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopoli...

Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Fruit Fly’s Neurons in E...

Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals n...

Hurricanes Helene’s Floods Swamped a Hospital, Highligh...

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to...

Hurricanes Kill People for Years after the Initial Disa...

The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000...

Why Cheeses Such as Mozzarella and Cheddar Melt Differe...

Food science can explain why mozzarella melts like a dream while feta and ricott...

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