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Crispr-Enhanced Viruses Are Being Deployed Against UTIs

The global rise in antibiotic resistance is making bacterial infections harder to treat and increasing the risk...

How earthquakes build beefy gold nuggets

When strained by earthquakes, underground networks of quartz veins can generate enough voltage to snatch gold from...

Alien Spaceships Could Be Detected Using Gravitational Waves

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.How much do we really know...

The Biggest Controversy in Cosmology Just Got Bigger

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Nearly a century ago, Edwin Hubble discovered that...

Why Polio Has Reemerged in Gaza

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.A 10-month-old boy in the Gaza...

When pain really is in your head

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

The Mosquito-Borne Disease ‘Triple E’ Is Spreading in the US as Temperatures Rise

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.A 41-year-old man in...

Readers discuss black holes’ trippy effects on time, banned swimsuits

Time to eat Astronomers watched in real time as the supermassive black hole at the...

Boeing Starliner Returns Home to an Uncertain Future

Boeing's Starliner spacecraft, stricken with thruster problems and helium leaks, has left the International Space Station, wrapping...

What Cancún’s Tourists Don’t See Is a Sprawling Concrete Jungle

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.The wide mowed lawns...

Bumblebees lose most of their sense of smell after heat waves

Heat waves don’t just make bumblebees hot. The high temperatures also seem to drastically reduce their sense...

50 years ago, some of plastic’s toxic hazards were exposed

Toxic surprises from the plastics industry — Science News, September 7, 1974 ...
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