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It’s tricky to transplant a bladder. How surgeons finally did it

The first successful human bladder transplant could offer hope for people with bladder problems. On May 4,...

AI Is Eating Data Center Power Demand—and It’s Only Getting Worse

AI’s energy use already represents as much as 20 percent of global data-center power demand, research published...

Trump’s ‘Golden Dome’ plan has a major obstacle: Physics

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

Don’t wait until menopause to strengthen your bones 

I confess: If I think about skeletons, it’s around Halloween. I especially enjoy the yard displays of...

The Enhanced Games Has a Date, a Host City, and a Drug-Fueled World Record

The Enhanced Games—a kind of Olympics for athletes who are doping—today announced the date and venue for...

Gamma rays flared as this lightning bolt formed

The collision of two lightning-bolts-in-the-making spawned an exceedingly brief but extremely energetic flash of gamma rays....

Trump Cuts Are Killing a Tiny Office That Keeps Measurements of the World Accurate

Cuts made by the Trump administration are threatening the function of a tiny but crucial office within...

A new AI-based weather tool surpasses current forecasts

Weather forecasting is getting cheaper and more accurate. An AI model named Aurora used machine learning to...

Scientists used a levitating magnet to hunt for dark matter

Senior physics writer Emily Conover has a Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago. She...

New Bacteria Have Been Discovered on a Chinese Space Station

It is microscopic and rod-shaped, can create spores, and may have evolved to survive hundreds of miles...

FDA significantly limits access to COVID-19 vaccines

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

Biden’s prostate cancer is incurable, but it is treatable

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