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How Climate Disasters Could Destabilize Major Banks

Both climate-driven disasters and the clean energy transition pose risks for the...

AI Therapy Bots Have Risks and Benefits and More Risks

Therapy chatbots are increasingly popular and may benefit some people, but it's ...

How Do People Get Parasitic Brain Worms like the One RF...

Experts explain how certain worms can infect the brain and why they are an impor...

Carrington-Level Cluster of Sunspots May Send a ‘Cannib...

A giant sunspot cluster rivaling the one that caused the Carrington Event in 185...

The Anthropology of Past Disease Outbreaks Can Help Pre...

Three factors determine whether a society experiences disease outbreaks—and how ...

Photograph Collection Finds ‘Tragic Beauty’ in Shorelin...

A stunning photograph collection underlines how climate change is altering the w...

Will Mexico City Run Out of Drinking Water?

More huge cities are facing Day Zero—the date water taps go dry—just as Cape Tow...

Is Earth Safe from a Nearby Supernova?

An exploding star is a catastrophe on a cosmic scale, but here on Earth we’re sa...

In a First, JWST Confirms an Atmosphere on a Rocky Exop...

Milestone observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal signs of an at...

How Bird Flu Caught the Dairy Industry Off Guard

Understanding how avian influenza jumped into cows can help shape the path to st...

Weird Exoplanets Fill the Cosmos. Here’s How Astronomer...

Alien worlds that glow like lightbulbs or harbor molten-rock rain are revealing ...

Why Did Ancient Romans Make this Baffling Metal Dodecah...

A mysterious 12-sided object called a dodecahedron discovered in England has arc...

XPRIZE’s $100-Million Carbon-Removal Contest Selects Fi...

A competition to develop carbon-removal technology that is run by XPRIZE and bac...

It’s Time for a Nature Preserve—On the Moon

The far side of the moon holds the keys to the future of radio astronomy. We mus...

NASA’s Plans for Next-Generation Mars Helicopters Are U...

After the spectacular success of the first-ever “Marscopter,” mission planners h...

What Are the Best Sunscreens, and Why Aren’t They Sold ...

A decade after Congress told the FDA to expedite the approval of more effective ...

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