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How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.When summer starts with a stifling...

Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate Change

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.If you’re one of...

Beneficial bacteria help these marine worms survive extreme cold

Antarctic marine worms survive with a little help from their bacterial friends. Close relatives of earthworms, polychaetes...

A new study challenges the idea that Rapa Nui islanders caused an ‘ecocide’

Early settlers of the island of Rapa Nui are famous for having created massive stone statues. They...

A heat dome is baking the United States. Here’s why that’s so dangerous

June is the new July. Or maybe even August. At least it feels that way, as summer...

Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Them

In 2010, two famous economists, Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth Rogoff, released a paper confirming what many fiscally...

Pain may take different pathways in men and women

Men and women experience pain differently, and until now, scientists didn’t know why. New research says it...

Meet Lokiceratops, a newly discovered species of horned dinosaur

A newfound dinosaur species may not have been burdened with the glorious purpose of Loki — but...

Potatoes Are the Perfect Vegetable—but You’re Eating Them Wrong

In 1996 the United States hit peak potato. Americans were eating 64 pounds of the vegetables each...

How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty

The penalty was invented in England on February 14, 1891. It was the last minute of an...

Astronomers watch a supermassive black hole turn on for the first time

Somewhere in the not-too-distant universe, a galaxy named SDSS1335+0728 is waking up. Over the past four years,...

AI could take medical imaging to the next level 

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