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It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries

Do you have a collection of old cell phones in a desk drawer somewhere because you don’t...

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early...

Hurricanes Are Trapping Small Island Nations in Ever-Worsening Spirals of Debt

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Hurricane Beryl laid waste to communities—even...

America’s Aging Dams Are a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Minnesota’s century-old...

Striving to break the global grip of malnutrition

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

Readers ask about noise pollution and beluga melons

Sounds like trouble Exposing zebra finch eggs and hatchlings to traffic noise can lead...

It’s Shockingly Easy to Buy Off-Brand Ozempic Online, Even If You Don’t Need It

The health care industry has never encountered anything quite like Ozempic before. First approved to treat Type...

World record speeds for two Olympics events have fallen over time. We can go faster

Ready, set, go break a record. As elite athletes compete for top accolades in the 2024 Summer...

A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water

In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture...

Bird flu has been invading the brains of mammals. Here’s why

In spring 2022, a handful of red foxes in Wisconsin were behaving oddly. Veterinary pathologist Betsy Elsmo...

Freeze-drying turned a woolly mammoth’s DNA into 3-D ‘chromoglass’

Beef jerky and some woolly mammoths have at least one thing in common: Drying turns their DNA...

Landfills belch toxic ‘forever chemicals’ into the air

What’s dumped into a landfill is supposed to stay there, but a new study finds that toxic...
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