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COVID Rates Are Rising Again. Why Does SARS-CoV-2 Sprea...

A combination of human behavior and immunity, the environment, and SARS-CoV-2 it...

Asteroid Apophis is Target of Europe’s New Ramses Mission

ESA’s Ramses spacecraft will scout out Apophis before and after the asteroid’s s...

Science Crossword: Pseudoscience

Your favorite word game with a twist of science

What Do Baseball Pitchers Shohei Ohtani, Gerrit Cole an...

Baseball pitchers are throwing faster than ever—and needing Tommy John surgery

Games Rule the World—And Always Have

Why we’re fascinated by solving mind-bending puzzles, pitching faster fastballs,...

How Does the World’s Largest Library Decide What Become...

From ancient clay tablets to TV shows to video games, the U.S. Library of Congre...

A Weird, Midsize Black Hole May Lurk in Omega Centauri

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size...

Can One Chatbot Catch Another’s Lies?

A new approach uses language models to interrogate other language models and sni...

Lab-Grown Meat Is Getting Closer to Tasting Like Real Beef

Cultured meat that tastes and smells more appetizing could enhance public percep...

Astronauts Can Drink More Recycled Pee Than Ever, and Y...

It’s been 55 years since the Apollo 11 mission, innovative ​&Zero...

Methane’s Climate Crisis Needs More than Satellites to ...

New regulations, and satellites like MethaneSat, very likely will not cut methan...

How Was the S’More Created?

The gooey, chocolatey s’more couldn’t have been popularized without the technolo...

Sex and Gender Map onto Different Brain Networks in Chi...

A preliminary study suggests that sex and gender are represented differently in ...

Where Does Beach Sand Come From?

Beach sand is beautiful—and even more so when you understand the story it tells ...

Facing Heat Waves, Cities Ask Scientists to Help Them P...

Miami and New York City officials say they need more insight into how searing te...

With Bird Flu Spreading in Cows, Is It Time for U.S. Fa...

Finland has decided to vaccinate farmworkers against bird flu—and experts say th...

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