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Organ age, not just your birthday, may determine your health risks

You could be 45 on paper but 60 in your kidneys. Turns out, your organs have birthdays...

Does the AI industry operate like a modern colonial empire?

Empire of AIKaren HaoPenguin Press | $32 If you’ve been following the meteoric rise of artificial...

How fast did dinosaurs really go? Birds walking in mud provide new clues

Over a video call from a dig site near Oxford, England, Peter Falkingham points his phone down...

The Structure of Ice in Space Is Neither Order nor Chaos—It’s Both

Ice is a key component in the universe. There are frozen water molecules on comets, moons, exoplanets,...

The biggest black hole smashup ever detected challenges physics theories

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

For Algorithms, Memory Is a Far More Powerful Resource Than Time

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.One July afternoon in 2024, Ryan Williams set...

Everything We Know About the Interstellar Object 3I/ATLAS

On July 2, NASA revealed the existence of 3I/ATLAS, only the third ever interstellar object observed in...

How to Use Clean Energy Tax Credits Before They Disappear

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The “one big beautiful...

A newly discovered interstellar object might predate the solar system

The solar system’s newest visitor, 3I/ATLAS, may be 3 billion years older than the sun and its...

Gut microbes may flush ‘forever chemicals’ from the body

Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some...

New Horizons visited Pluto 10 years ago. We’re still learning from it

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

Greenland sled dog DNA is a window into the Arctic’s archaeological past

A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic...
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