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How to Weigh a Black Hole

Gauging the mass of a black hole is tricky, but astronomers have devised multipl...

'Etymology Nerd' Adam Aleksic on How Internet Culture I...

Linguist Adam Aleksic explains how viral slang and algorithm-driven speech aren’...

Aftershock of July’s 8.8 Earthquake Strikes Kamchatka. ...

A powerful magnitude 7.8 aftershock off Russia’s Kamchatka Peninsula that arose ...

NASA Records More Than 6,000 Exoplanets and Counting

It’s a crowded galaxy, the latest exoplanet tally shows

New AI Tool Predicts Which of 1,000 Diseases Someone Ma...

A large language model called Delphi-2M analyzes a person’s medical records and ...

Genetics Can Track How Languages Mixed in the Past

New research shows that wherever human populations mix, their languages blend as...

Dogs with Large Vocabularies Can Understand Category Wo...

These dogs can extend words to new objects based on function the way children do...

How a Contentious CDC Vaccine Meeting Will Affect Publi...

Three vaccines are on the agenda for this week’s meeting of ACIP, the CDC’s key ...

How Geocaching Became a Global GPS Treasure Hunt over 2...

These hobbyists use GPS coordinates to hunt for secret prizes around the world

COVID Vaccine Access Now Varies from State to State. He...

With federal vaccine guidance under fire, states are forging their own immunizat...

Secrets of Chinese AI Model DeepSeek Revealed in Landma...

The first peer-reviewed study of the DeepSeek AI model shows how a Chinese start...

Vaccines Are at Risk, Fired CDC Director Warns Senators

Former CDC chief Susan Monarez testified that Secretary of Health and Human Serv...

Chimpanzee Consumption of Boozy Fruit May Illuminate Ro...

Wild chimps ingest the equivalent of multiple alcoholic beverages a day

Oldest Known Pachycephalosaur Fossil Discovered in Mong...

A newly discovered dinosaur species has been identified from a fossil unearthed ...

Can Dogs, Cats and Other Pets Truly Improve Your Health?

Pets can improve your health—but only if you have a strong relationship with the...

The Problem with Billionaire Science

Science may need to increasingly rely on wealthy patrons, but privately funded p...

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