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Fired CDC Director Says RFK Jr. Pressured Her to Blindly Approve Vaccine Changes

At a Senate hearing on Wednesday, former director of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention...

Cancer patients froze reproductive tissue as kids. Now they’re coming back for it

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

Brains don’t all act their age

Amid the petty drama of internet arguments, one never fails to entertain me: Do millennials actually look...

A new drug shows promise for hard-to-treat high blood pressure

A new drug may help people with high blood pressure that does not respond to existing medications....

This Giant Subterranean Neutrino Detector Is Taking On the Mysteries of Physics

Located 700 meters underground near the city of Jiangmen in southern China, a giant sphere—35 meters in...

COVID-19 is still a threat, but getting a vaccine is harder for many people

Traveling across state lines in search of an available shot. Scrambling to get a doctor’s prescription. Showing...

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity

Anne-Laure Le Cunff was something of a wild child. As a teenager, she repeatedly disabled the school...

A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak and the atomic bomb

Tales of Militant ChemistryAlice LovejoyUniv. of California Press, $27.95 Despite the digitalization of pictures and movies,...

The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies debuted, researchers say....

Salt can turn frozen water into a weak power source

Salt, ice and some oomph — these three simple ingredients are all that’s needed to make waste-free...

How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars

Astronomy is the oldest science, and the sky is among our first laboratories. Long before the written...

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default...
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