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Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of...

Genes may shape how long we live more than once thought

The length of your life may depend more upon your genes than scientists thought. Once you remove...

Polar bears in the Barents Sea are staying fat despite rapid sea ice loss

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears...

Artificial lungs kept a man alive until he could get a transplant

Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 hours with artificial...

A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is...

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past...

The Doomsday Clock Is Now 85 Seconds to Midnight. Here’s What That Means

The Doomsday Clock has just been set to 85 seconds to midnight. Nearly 80 years after its...

Whaling may have started 1,500 years earlier than already known

Whale hunting began far earlier — and much farther south — than scientists previously suspected. Five-thousand-year-old whalebone...

AI tool AlphaGenome predicts how one typo can change a genetic story

A new deep-learning AI model may help scientists better decipher the plot of the genetic instruction book...

What the new nutrition guidelines get wrong about fat

When new dietary guidelines for Americans came out in early January, I couldn’t help but notice “healthy...

A North Atlantic Right Whale Baby Boom Is On—but the Species Remains at Risk

After nearly two decades, the baby whale came back—as a mother, with a baby of its own....
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