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‘It felt like dread.’ Hear what severe depression can do to people

This is episode 2 of The Deep End. Listen to more episodes here. Depression can affect not...

A ‘Teleportation’ Breakthrough for Quantum Computing Is Here

Quantum computing has enormous potential, but it faces a scalability problem. For such a machine to be...

Giant camel-like creatures lived thousands of years longer than once

Some species of megafauna might have existed for much longer than the paleontological canon suggests. Current thinking...

This New Algorithm for Sorting Books or Files Is Close to Perfection

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Computer scientists often deal with abstract problems that...

‘Uncertain, anxious, fearful.’ That’s the mood at 2025’s first big U.S. science meeting

BOSTON — The official theme of the meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science,...

For-Profit Companies Can’t Easily Replace NOAA’s Weather-Forecasting Prowess

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.When a hurricane or tornado starts...

Metals Crucial to Clean Energy Are Getting Caught Up in the US–China Trade War

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the summer of...

Who are the indirect costs of NIH research? We talked to 3

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

How a mushroom coral goes for a walk without legs

A coral walks into a (sand) bar. This may sound like a joke. But new time-lapse photography...

Even epic rainfall may not be enough to refill SoCal’s aquifers

Even though immense rains repeatedly pummeled California in 2023, they barely helped recharge aquifers drawn down by...

A Nose-Computer Interface Could Turn Dogs Into Super Detectors

Thanks to their excellent smelling ability, dogs have been used for hundreds of years to hunt down...

In a first, zebra cams reveal herds on the move with giraffes

In the opening scene of The Lion King, animals of every stripe, spot and tusk march in...
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