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Extreme Hail Storms Are Wrecking Solar Farms—but Defending Them May Be Easier Than It Seems

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.When a...

An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

India’s Ganges River shifted abruptly due to a distant yet massive earthquake around 2,500 years ago, new...

If Betelgeuse Explodes, Just How Bright Will It Get?

Theres a famous star that I'm sure you've seen in the sky. Its name is Betelgeuse, and...

Does social status shape height?

Citations S.L. Cox et al. Socio-cultural practices may have affected sex differences in stature in Early Neolithic...

Stunning trilobite fossils include soft tissues never seen before

Paleontologists studying rocks from Morocco have unearthed the most exquisitely preserved trilobite fossils yet discovered. The new...

Calling gun violence a public health crisis is a ‘first step’ to fight it 

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

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ work left its mark on their skeletons

Ancient Egyptian scribes’ life works are written on their bones. Arthritis and other damage mark the scribes’...

The last woolly mammoths offer new clues to why the species went extinct

Four thousand years ago, on an island off the coast of what is now Siberia, the world’s...

NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are Struggling to Make Them

Almost exactly two years ago, as it prepared for the next generation of human spaceflight, NASA chose...

Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

In 1997, a French woman named Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122. She was the...

We may finally know the source of mysterious high-energy neutrinos

Supermassive black holes at the hearts of active galaxies may be churning out a lot of the...

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold....
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