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The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the...

Scientists Crack a 50-Year Mystery to Discover a New Set of Blood Groups

By the time Louise Tilley got to the blood sample, it had already been puzzling scientists for...

This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds

Mark, a 64-year-old with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, uses Amazon Alexa all the time using his...

Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.To understand the universe, scientists look to its...

South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Enormous floods have once again engulfed...

An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic

In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, a steadily growing epidemic continued to burn its path across...

AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In 2023, the fast-fashion...

The Bird Flu Outbreak Takes a Mysterious Turn

This year in the United States, 14 people have tested positive for avian influenza, or bird flu....

How to View the ‘Comet of the Century’ C/2023 A3

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.C/2023 A3, also known...

The Coast Guard’s OceanGate Hearings Start Next Week—but Key Witnesses Won’t Appear

On Monday, September 16, the US Coast Guard is convening a Marine Board of Investigation hearing into...

Amazon’s Shipping and Delivery Emissions Just Keep Going Up

Five years ago, in a splashy speech in Washington, DC, Jeff Bezos rolled out Amazon’s Climate Pledge,...

The Cost of Lightning

It was the terrible prospect of lightning one day striking the historic windmill that troubled Andrew Farrell....
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