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How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas

the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas recently reached its perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the...

Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale with each strike, much like...

Water jets may break up into droplets thanks to jiggling molecules

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

How did Pluto capture its largest moon, Charon?

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Are Here

Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis...

There’s math behind this maddening golf mishap

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

See the largest, most detailed radio image of the Milky Way yet

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

As teens in crisis turn to AI chatbots, simulated chats highlight risks

Just because a chatbot can play the role of therapist doesn’t mean it should. Conversations powered...

A New Type of Opioid Is Killing People in the US, Europe, and Australia

US and European authorities are battling a new enemy in the war against opioids. Nitazenes are a...

A New Light-Based Cancer Treatment Kills Tumor Cells and Spares Healthy Ones

In the fight against cancer, an important field of research is the search for safe alternatives to...

Mosquitoes infiltrated Iceland. Will they survive the winter?

Iceland’s first mosquitoes are poised to face a frosty test. Winter is coming, and it’s uncertain whether...

Physicists Create a Thermometer for Measuring ‘Quantumness’

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.If there’s one law of physics that seems...
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