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Why Urban Wildfires like L.A.’s Release Such Toxic Smoke

Wildfires burning in cities unleash a toxic, unpredictable combination of compou...

Destructive Los Angeles Fires Explained in Photos

The ferocity and scale of the fires that tore through the Los Angeles area becom...

Annual U.S. Dementia Cases Projected to Rise to 1 Milli...

A new study finds that dementia cases will increase at a much higher rate than e...

Exotic ‘Paraparticles’ That Defy Categorization May Exi...

Theoretical physicists predict the existence of exotic “paraparticles” that defy...

Health Care AI Requires a Lot of Expensive Humans to Run

Despite the hype over artificial intelligence in medicine, the systems require c...

Climate Opportunities in Greenland May Be Part of Trump...

Arctic shipping routes and burgeoning mining opportunities may be part of Greenl...

The Reason Wildfires in L.A. Were So Destructive and an...

In this week’s news rundown, norovirus cases are up, a bird flu death is reporte...

U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments

TikTok is on the clock: ByteDance, the app’s China-based owner, must sell it by ...

Trump’s Erroneous Claims about the Los Angeles Fire Res...

President-elect Trump has incorrectly blamed California water management for the...

Bird Flu, Salmonella and Other Health Risks from Raw Eg...

Eggs can carry nasty viruses and bacteria. Here’s how to store and eat them safely

Hunters Disagree on the Threat of Chronic Wasting Disea...

The prion disease that causes deer, elk and other cervids to waste away could so...

Sky Sights to Watch in 2025

The heavens will provide a bounty of viewing treasures in the coming year

Will We Find Planet Nine with the Vera Rubin Observator...

Pluto was unseated as the ninth planet in our solar system. Will we find a real ...

Why We’re So Preoccupied by the Past

People talk more about past events than future ones—and memories hold clues for ...

2024 Is Officially the Hottest Year on Record

2024 was the hottest year on record and the first to top 1.5 degrees Celsius of ...

Los Angeles Fires Could Push California’s Insurance Sys...

Damages from the recent fires in the Los Angeles area could overwhelm California...

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