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How the Brain Decides What to Remember

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.György Buzsáki first started tinkering with waves when...

The Supreme Court Is Gutting Protections for Clean Water and Safe Air

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.US environmental law is...

Strange observations of galaxies challenge ideas about dark matter

Head-scratching observations of distant galaxies are challenging cosmologists’ dominant ideas about the universe, potentially leading to the...

How to Run on the Moon

In the future I'm sure there will be a city on the moon. We know how to...

How a Group of Butterflies Managed to Fly 4,200 Kilometers Without Stopping

THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.The dozen butterflies were flying...

Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life

“The adoption of new ideas and the pace of change in health care can lag behind other...

US Government Awards Moderna $176 Million for mRNA Bird Flu Vaccine

The US government will pay Moderna $176 million to develop an mRNA vaccine against a pandemic influenza—an...

A Chinese Space Startup Launched Its New Rocket by Accident

One of the most promising Chinese space startups, Space Pioneer, experienced a serious anomaly last weekend while...

Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why

Those who’ve dodged COVID-19 for more than four years may have a newly discovered immune response to...

Advanced nuclear reactors need a different type of uranium. Here’s 4 things to know 

Nuclear power of the future is going to need fuel. That has governments, energy companies and nuclear...

The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors

In December last year, the UK’s shadow health secretary, Wes Streeting, visited Singapore General Hospital, regarded as...

Hurricane Beryl Isn’t a Freak Storm—It’s the Exact Nightmare Meteorologists Predicted

Hurricane Beryl’s record-shattering intensification into a scale-topping Category 5 storm has stunned even the most seasoned experts....
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