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Are ultraprocessed foods truly addictive?

When I sat down to write this story, I remembered the gummy worms in the snack drawer...

Antarctic krill eject more food when it’s contaminated with plastic

Antarctic krill keep revealing new superpowers. Euphausia superba, the Southern Ocean’s ubiquitous krill species, sequester large amounts...

Discoveries that enabled quantum computers win the Nobel Prize in physics

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

Chaos, Confusion, and Conspiracies: Inside a Facebook Group for RFK Jr.’s Autism ‘Cure’

On September 22, the Food and Drug Administration announced it was approving a new use of a...

What the longest woolly rhino horn tells us about the beasts’ biology

The longest woolly rhino horn ever found is providing new insights into the lives of these now...

Taking These 50 Objects Out of Orbit Would Cut Danger From Space Junk in Half

A new listing of the 50 most concerning pieces of space debris in low-Earth orbit is dominated...

New oral GLP-1 drugs could offer more options for weight loss

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

Autism Is Not a Single Condition and Has No Single Cause, Scientists Conclude

New research from the University of Cambridge suggests that autism should not be understood as a homogeneous...

How to Get Your Kids Into STEM Even When Its Future Is Uncertain

Blame the lightsabers. That’s what led me to become a professor. As a high school student, one...

The Mystery of How Quasicrystals Form

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Since their discovery in 1982, exotic materials known...

Why US Power Bills Are Surging

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Like most Americans this...

What Jane Goodall taught me about bones, loss and not wasting anything

Jane Goodall died on October 1 at the age of 91. When I heard the news, my...
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