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Promising Mpox Drug Fails in Trials as Virus Spreads

As mpox continues to spread in Central Africa, a promising antiviral drug to treat the infection has...

The US Grid Is Adding Batteries at a Much Faster Rate Than Natural Gas

While solar power is growing at an extremely rapid clip, in absolute terms, the use of natural...

People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat severe reactions

Soon people will be able to subdue a severe allergic reaction with a nasal spray instead of...

The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

A distant stellar nursery holds a clutch of newborn Jupiter-sized worlds, the tiniest of which is...

Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds

For billions of years, the continents have cruised across Earth’s surface like tectonic vessels, but they have...

Struggling to Unlock Your Phone? You Might Have Lost Your Fingerprints

Mara Johnson-Groh, 33, a freelance science writer in British Columbia, Canada, lost her fingerprints about a decade...

Extreme heat and rain help send dengue cases skyrocketing

When it rains, it pours. And when it pours, mosquitoes pop up.  A series of...

The Quantum Mechanics of the Greenhouse Effect

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1896, the Swedish physicist Svante Arrhenius realized...

The Boeing Starliner Astronauts Will Come Home on SpaceX’s Dragon

NASA has announced that astronauts Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams will return to Earth next February aboard...

Will the ‘Car-Free’ Los Angeles Olympics Work?

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.With the Olympic torch extinguished in...

Your Guide to Surviving Extreme Weather

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.No matter where you...

Readers discuss hypothetical ‘tauonium’ atoms

Talk of the tauonium Scientists propose a hunt for tauonium, a hypothetical variety of...
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