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How does a fossil become a superstar? Just ask Lucy.

Inside a specially constructed safe at the National Museum of Ethiopia in Addis Ababa sit the fragile...

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African...

Accelerated muons bring next-gen particle colliders closer to reality

Muons are getting a move on.  In a step toward new types of particle physics experiments, scientists...

A twisted protein sheds light on chronic wasting disease in deer

The misfolded proteins responsible for a fatal neurological illness in deer have a twist. The first detailed...

The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests

On December 16, 1773, a group of protesters in Boston donned handkerchiefs and smeared their faces with...

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.$1 trillion a year in...

Uranus may have looked weird when NASA’s Voyager 2 flew by

Some of Uranus’ apparent oddities might be due to bad timing. In 1986, the Voyager 2 spacecraft...

The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem

In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a...

Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible...

The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.It’s not easy to study quantum systems—collections of...

A Popular Decongestant Doesn’t Work. The FDA Is Finally Doing Something About It

In a long-sought move, the US Food and Drug Administration on Thursday formally began the process of...

Invasive Species Are Threatening the Quality of New York’s Tap Water

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate Science and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The quality...
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