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A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It

In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of...

Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate Science and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The quality...

Starship’s Next Launch Could Be Just Two Weeks Away

Less than a month has passed since the historic fifth flight of SpaceX’s Starship, during which the...

States’ Abortion Rights Wins May Be Short-Lived Under a Second Trump Term

When the US Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, it ended the constitutional right...

China’s New Heavy Lift Rocket Looks a Whole Lot Like SpaceX’s Starship

When Chinese space officials unveiled the design for the country's first super heavy-lift rocket nearly a decade...

Thousands of People Are Cloning Their Dead Pets. This Is the Woman They Call First

Nine years ago, a pair of freshly weaned British longhair kittens boarded a private plane in Virginia...

The Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the fall of 2022, a Princeton University...

How a PhD Student Discovered a Lost Mayan City From Hundreds of Miles Away

A new Mayan city, lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico for centuries, has been discovered...

How Researchers Are Using Geospatial Technology to Uncover Mexico’s Clandestine Graves

There are more than 114,000 missing persons in Mexico, and that number is continuing to rise. Criminal...

RFK Jr. Wants to Reshape US Health Policy. Good Luck With That

"I’m going to let him go wild on health,” former president Donald Trump said of Robert F....

A Lost Mayan City Has Been Found With Laser Mapping

A Mayan city lost in the dense jungle of southern Mexico has been revealed. The discovery occurred...

The Secret Electrostatic World of Insects

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine, for a moment, that you’re a honeybee....
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