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Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes...

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The rapid spread of artificial intelligence...

The Cause of the LA Fires Might Never Be Known—but AI Is Hunting for Clues

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.What’s shaping up to...

This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin

What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter?...

A cosmic ‘Platypus’ might link two astronomical mysteries

NATIONAL HARBOR, MD. — A bright blip in a distant galaxy may link two mysterious categories of...

Fever’s link with a key kind of immunity is surprisingly ancient

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

5 Physics Equations Everyone Should Know

All the tech we rely on, from cars to smartphones, was engineered using physics. You don’t need...

Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality

Slowly but surely, we are making good on the gadgets we imagined, as kids, that the future...

Another danger looms after the LA fires: Devastating debris flows

The Los Angeles wildfires were still burning when scientists started scouting the freshly charred burn scars to...

Mole or marsupial? This subterranean critter with a backward pouch is both

Evolving a dig-in-the-dark mole lifestyle comes with radical anatomical changes, making it hard even to guess the...

The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One

As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the...

Trump is withdrawing the U.S. from WHO. Here’s what that means 

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...
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