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Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously Enough

In 2010, three months before her seventh birthday, Ella Roberta suddenly developed a chest infection and a...

Honeybees can “smell” lung cancer

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

Something weird is happening to Earth’s inner core

Something strange is happening at Earth’s center. Decades of earthquake data show that Earth’s inner core has...

Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

Everybody poops, including astronauts. In fact, the first picture Neil Armstrong ever snapped from the surface of...

Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain

Designer Thomas Heatherwick thinks the construction industry is in a crisis. “We’ve just got so used to...

A lost civilization’s partial alphabet was discovered in a social media post

A sequence of letters belonging to an ancient alphabet has been discovered in a most unusual way...

A black hole made from pure light is impossible, thanks to quantum physics 

Black holes can’t be formed from pure light. Quantum physics would curb their creation under any foreseeable...

Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed

“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading...

Post-Pandemic Recovery Isn’t Guaranteed

Lucy Easthope, one of the UK’s top experts in disaster planning, has advised the UK government on...

Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults

In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner...

What Came Before the Big Bang?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos...

Recluse Spider Season Is a Myth

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.Summer arrives, and with...
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