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How Japan’s ‘Moon Sniper’ Mission Hit Its Mark

Japan’s SLIM lander has sparked a new era of precision landings, with big implic...

Medicaid Expansion Alone Won't Stop the Opioid Overdose...

Expanding the state and federal insurance program helps prevent overdoses. But t...

Total Solar Eclipses Are Cosmic Coincidences That Won’t...

Earthlings are very lucky to see the spectacle of a total solar eclipse

Hunger in Gaza Could Affect Survivors' Health for Decades

Epigenetics research reveals how famines can cause health problems later in life...

People Hate Daylight Saving. Science Tells Us Why.

Something is awry about the way we mark time. Can research and policy changes he...

Titanosaurs—The Biggest Land Animals in Earth’s History...

The secret to titanosaurs’ remarkable biological success may be how they merged ...

New Nonprofit Spotlights AI Trained on Copyrighted Work...

The new nonprofit Fairly Trained certifies that artificial intelligence models l...

CRISPR Will Likely Not Solve Bird Flu

New research shows that CRISPR, the gene editing technique, could make chickens ...

Is ‘Bed Rotting’ Good or Bad for Your Sleep?

“Bed rotting,” or staying in bed all day, has been touted as a self-care routine...

Sunlight-Dimming Climate Schemes Need Worldwide Oversight

As the climate crisis intensifies, experiments to “cool the planet” by reflectin...

A ‘Double Brood’ of Periodical Cicadas Will Emerge in 2024

The U.S. will see two adjacent broods of periodical cicadas emerge this spring

Microplastics Linked to Heart Attack, Stroke and Death

People who had tiny plastic particles lodged in a key blood vessel were more lik...

How the Seven Bridges of Königsberg Spawned New Math

Are you smarter than an 18th-century Prussian?

These Invasive Ants Are Changing How Lions Hunt

On the African savanna, a single invasive ant species has upset the delicate bal...

Lead from Old Paint and Pipes Is Still a Deadly Hazard ...

Protecting people from lead poisoning requires developing and using powerful tests

Meet the Real-life Versions of Dune’s Epic Sandworms

A Dune-loving worm paleontologist makes the case that worms have been just as im...

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