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The Odds of a City-Killing Asteroid Hitting Earth Keep Rising

An asteroid discovered late last year is continuing to stir public interest as its odds of striking...

Biological sex is not as simple as male or female

Sex is messy. It’s not just about chromosomes. Or reproductive cells. Or any other binary metric. Many...

Fog collection could alleviate water stress in desert cities

Rural communities in arid regions have harvested tiny droplets of fog for years as a source of...

Your Next Pet Could Be a Glowing Rabbit

Humans have been selectively breeding cats and dogs for thousands of years to make more desirable pets....

Squishy materials reveal new physics of static electricity 

Rub a balloon on your hair and the balloon typically picks up a negative electric charge, while...

Earth had new, temporary radiation rings last year

On May 10, 2024, the strongest solar storm in 20 years sparked auroras on Earth that were...

National Science Foundation Fires 168 Workers as Federal Purge Continues

The National Science Foundation fired nearly 170 workers in a Zoom call on Tuesday morning as part...

A weird ice that may form on alien planets has finally been observed

A strange type of ice thought to dwell deep in the oceans of alien planets has finally...

Mobulas, an Aquatic Wonder of the Gulf of California, Are Disappearing

In the eastern Pacific Ocean, mobulas alternate between silent undulation underwater and acrobatic leaps out of it....

‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can do to people

This is episode 2 of The Deep End. Listen to more episodes here. Depression can affect not...

A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here

Quantum computing has enormous potential, but it faces a scalability problem. For such a machine to be...

Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years longer than once

Some species of megafauna might have existed for much longer than the paleontological canon suggests. Current thinking...
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