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The World Is Ignoring the Other Deadly Kind of Carbon

Once again, vast expanses of Canadian wilderness are on fire, threatening towns and forcing thousands to flee....

The Complex Social Lives of Viruses

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Ever since viruses came to light in the...

How Big Dairy Took Over Your TikTok Feed—With Help From Uncle Sam

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.For the past year...

There’s New Hope for an HIV Vaccine

Since it was first identified in 1983, HIV has infected more than 85 million people and caused...

Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch

Cultivated meat is coming to a store near you. Well, not near you, exactly. Unless you live...

Wegovy Can Keep Weight Off for at Least 4 Years, Research Shows

A large, long-term trial of the weight-loss medication Wegovy (semaglutide) found that people tended to lose weight...

Saunas Are the Next Frontier in Fighting Depression

Depression runs hot. In the 1980s, psychiatrists began noticing that patients with depressive symptoms had higher body...

These Electric School Buses Are on Their Way to Save the Grid

The big yellow school bus is a US icon, but perhaps not one that future Americans will...

Despite Bird Flu Risk, Raw-Milk Drinkers Are Undaunted

To drink raw milk at any time is to flirt with dangerous germs. But, amid an unprecedented...

The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died

Richard “Rick” Slayman, the first person to receive a kidney from a genetically modified pig, has died...

These Artificial Blood Platelets Could One Day Save Lives

When donated blood is in low supply, platelets are even scarcer. These cell fragments, which are essential...

NASA’s Quest to Touch the Sun

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Our sun is the best-observed star in the...
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