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Hurricane Helene Shows How Broken the US Insurance System Is

On Tuesday morning, five days after Hurricane Helene ripped through Boone, North Carolina, David Marlett was on...

A hurricane’s aftermath may spur up to 11,000 deaths

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating,...

Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays 

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view...

Dolphins’ open-mouth behaviors during play are like smiles, a study claims

Dolphins are known for what appear to be big, contagious smiles. But do they actually, well, smile?...

Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified

When Formula E launched, it was ahead of its time. Not in the visionary sense—though it was...

Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again

In a cramped conference room in Bristol, Ilan Gur is trying to convince a group of plant...

Coyotes have the face muscles for that ‘sad-puppy’ look

Coyotes turn out to have face muscles that look capable of making that big-eyed, sad-puppy face that...

23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

23andMe is in trouble. Once a hot Silicon Valley startup, the genetic testing company has been in...

The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time in 142 Years

On Monday, the UK saw the closure of its last operational coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which has...

Why Hurricane Helene was so devastating

A perfect storm of climate, geologic and geographic conditions have combined to make Hurricane Helene...

The fruit fly revolutionized biology. Now it’s boosting science in Africa

When Amos Abolaji returned to Nigeria from a year abroad, he brought home a strange souvenir —...
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