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Elon Musk Is Out to Rule Space. Can Anyone Stop Him?

Just off the Jimmy Buffett Memorial Highway, the hotel’s rooftop bar is open late. The bartender passes...

When cancer targets the young

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

Big Tech Dreams of Putting Data Centers in Space

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The companies frantically building...

Distillation Can Make AI Models Smaller and Cheaper

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The Chinese AI company DeepSeek released a chatbot...

Say Hello to the 2025 Ig Nobel Prize Winners

Does alcohol enhance one’s foreign language fluency? Do West African lizards have a preferred pizza topping? And...

RFK Jr.’s Vaccine Panel Votes Down Its Own Proposal to Require Prescriptions for Covid-19 Shots

On the second day of a pivotal vaccine meeting that was at times heated, confusing, and chaotic,...

Staying on the keto diet long term could carry health risks

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

A primordial black hole may have spewed the highest energy neutrino ever found

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

Bats live with some viruses. But others can do them in

Sometimes even bats need a sick day. Bats are renowned for the ability to be infected with...

Math puzzle: The four islands

Once upon a time, four queens known as the queens of blue, red, green and pink...

How Energy-Generating Sidewalks Work

We walk here, we walk there, we walk everywhere. Maybe you’re headed to work or to lunch...

Vaccine Panel Stacked by RFK Jr. Recommends Delaying MMRV Immunization

A federal vaccine advisory committee made up of members hand-picked by Health and Human Services secretary Robert...
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