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A quantum computer goes to space

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

What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health

For decades, sleep disturbance was a punch line: the cartoon dad snoring, the disgruntled partner burying their...

The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments

In 2023, Mitchell Miller, a sleep medicine doctor based in Clearwater, Florida, received a visit from an...

Can AI ‘feel’ guilt?

Some sci-fi scenarios depict robots as cold-hearted clankers eager to manipulate human stooges. But that’s not the...

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

Last week, the Trump administration announced a set of sweeping AI policy recommendations to “usher in a...

Two colliding galaxies may have birthed this black hole

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

A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.On Monday, the Space...

You may already have some protection from bird flu, but don’t count on it

Some people may already have a tiny bit of protection against H5N1 bird flu. Several recent studies...

Seeing sick faces may prime the immune system to repel invaders

Our brains might prime our immune system merely by seeing someone who looks sick. A study published...

Some killer whales hunt in pairs to maximize their bounty

Grabbing a meal with a friend is way better than dining solo — and killer whales agree....

This Star System Contains 5 Potentially Habitable Planets

A team of astronomers from the University of Montreal has discovered a new potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting...
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