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Some trees are coping with extreme heat surprisingly well

Ecologist Akhil Javad felt the thrill of fieldwork quickly fade when he was faced with the prospect...

Brain implants don’t change a person’s sense of self. Hear why

In the fifth episode of The Deep End, Jon Nelson describes depression as a “no-casserole disease,” one...

5 years after COVID-19 became a pandemic, are we ready for what’s next?

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

New Proofs Expand the Limits of What Cannot Be Known

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The world of mathematics is full of unreachable...

The Extreme Weather Conditions That Drove the Carolina Wildfires

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Scores of wildfires broke out across...

The Biggest US Banks Have All Backed Out of a Commitment to Reach Net Zero

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the lead-up to...

SpaceX’s Latest Starship Explosion Marks Two Consecutive Failures

SpaceX’s Starship launcher spun out of control minutes after liftoff Thursday, showering fiery debris over the Bahamas...

It’s ‘personal.’ What the Stand Up for Science rally meant for attendees

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

Elon Musk’s Neuralink Files to Trademark ‘Telepathy’

Elon Musk’s brain implant company, Neuralink, has filed applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office...

Nokia Put a 4G Cellular Network on the Moon but Couldn’t Make a Phone Call

If everything went to plan on March 6, there'd be a small 4G LTE network on a...

Medical AI tools are growing, but are they being tested properly?

Artificial intelligence algorithms are being built into almost all aspects of health care. They’re integrated into breast...

Dolphins and humans team up to catch fish in Brazil

Many hands make light work. Or, in the case of cooperative interspecies foraging in southern Brazil, flippers...
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