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RSV Can Be a Killer. New Tools Are Identifying the Most At-Risk Kids

After 25 years as a pediatric infectious diseases specialist, Asunción Mejías is too familiar with the deadly...

How to spot tiny black holes that might pass through the solar system 

Black holes about the size of a hydrogen atom could be careening through the solar system unnoticed....

Projectile pollen helps this flower edge out reproductive competition

Some flowers may be using their pollinators as sexual battlegrounds. Red, Brazilian flowers called Hypenea macrantha use...

‘I Told Him I’m Not Getting in It’: Former Titan Submersible Engineer Testifies

The US Coast Guard’s Titan submersible hearing kicked off with a startling revelation.“I told him I’m not...

The Polaris Dawn Spaceflight Was More Than Just a Billionaire Joyride

A white spacecraft, lightly toasted like a marshmallow and smelling of singed metal, fell out of the...

Pregnancy overhauls the brain. Here’s what that looks like

Pregnancy overhauls a woman’s body. The brain is no exception. A detailed study of a woman’s brain...

Scientists Crack a 50-Year Mystery to Discover a New Set of Blood Groups

By the time Louise Tilley got to the blood sample, it had already been puzzling scientists for...

This Brain Implant Lets People Control Amazon Alexa With Their Minds

Mark, a 64-year-old with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, or ALS, uses Amazon Alexa all the time using his...

Stephen Hawking Was Wrong—Extremal Black Holes Are Possible

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.To understand the universe, scientists look to its...

South Sudan May See the First Permanent Mass Displacement Due to Climate Change

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Enormous floods have once again engulfed...

An ER Doctor’s Cure for America’s Gun Epidemic

In 2020, while the Covid-19 pandemic raged, a steadily growing epidemic continued to burn its path across...

AI Has Helped Shein Become Fast Fashion’s Biggest Polluter

This story originally appeared in Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In 2023, the fast-fashion...
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