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Voyager 1 and 2, Humanity’s Interstellar Envoys, Soldier On at 45

Today is the 45th anniversary of the launch of Voyager 1, one of humanity’s iconic twin emissaries...

Electric Fish Genomes Reveal How Evolution Repeats Itself

Along the murky bottom of the Amazon River, serpentine fish called electric eels scour the gloom for...

NASA Orders a Second Delay for the Artemis Moon-Bound Rocket

NASA engineers held the countdown at T-40 minutes while troubleshooting for more than an hour. Finally, launch...

Pakistan’s ‘Monster Monsoon’ Shows the Wrath of Climate Change

This story originally appeared in The Guardian and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The climate crisis...

Virtual Sessions Made Me a Better Therapist

It is not difficult to extend the lessons I’ve learned in my virtual sessions to every couple...

What you need to know about the new omicron booster shots

Revamped COVID-19 vaccines are poised to do battle with the super-contagious omicron variant. On September 1, U.S....

Could Climate Change Alter the Length of the Day?

Let's consider an example with an imaginary planet. In this solar system, the planet completes one orbit...

Why DeepMind Is Sending AI Humanoids to Soccer Camp

“This didn’t really work,” says Nicolas Heess, also a research scientist at DeepMind, and one of the...

Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand

That sediment is special, indeed. Desert sand from, say, the Sahara is no good for making concrete...

To Fight Severe Drought, China Is Turning to Technology

“You could actually exacerbate the drought situation,” says Gabriel Collins at Rice University’s Baker Institute for Public...

Who has the highest risk of long COVID? It’s complicated

For millions of people, COVID-19 doesn’t end with a negative test. Weeks or months after traces of...

Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?

In April 2021, a widely anticipated paper in the field of psychedelics dropped. The study, a small...
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