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In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls

axolotls are critically endangered. According to the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species, these aquatic monsters—a national...

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Several top scientists charged with overseeing research into disease prevention and cures at the National Institutes of...

More details about the Myanmar earthquake are emerging

As rescue and recovery efforts continue to ramp-up in earthquake-ravaged Myanmar, new details about how the geologic...

Physicists have confirmed a new mismatch between matter and antimatter 

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

A new antifungal drug works in a surprising way

A newly discovered bacterial weapon against fungi can kill even drug-resistant strains, raising hopes for a new...

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Israeli historian and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s book Sapiens became an international bestseller by presenting a view...

Neandertal-like tools found in China present a mystery

Stone tools traditionally attributed to European and western Asian Neandertals have turned up nearly a continent away...

Splitting seawater offers a path to sustainable cement production

A new cement-making process could shift production from being a carbon source to a carbon sink, creating...

A nebula’s X-ray glow may come from a destroyed giant planet

The decades-long mystery of a never-ending explosion of X-rays around the remains of a dead star may...

AI is helping scientists decode previously inscrutable proteins

Generative artificial intelligence has entered a new frontier of fundamental biology: helping scientists to better understand proteins,...

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.“Obviously” is a dangerous word, even in scenarios...

Readers talk science dioramas, an underwater volcano eruption, a zero-less number system

On display Museum experts are exploring how to bring the science dioramas of yore into the...
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