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Measles Cases Are Soaring in Mexico

The spread of measles is showing no signs of slowing down in Mexico. Between July 21 and...

Why devastating tsunamis didn’t follow the Russia earthquake

When a magnitude 8.8 earthquake struck offshore of the Kamchatka Peninsula in eastern Russia on July 29,...

Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work

A new report released yesterday by the Department of Energy purports to provide “a critical assessment of...

A molecule produced by gut microbes may help spur heart disease

A small molecule left over after gut microbes finish digesting your meal may one day provide a...

A quantum computer goes to space

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

What Your Nighttime Breathing Says About Your Health

For decades, sleep disturbance was a punch line: the cartoon dad snoring, the disgruntled partner burying their...

The Hyperflexible People Who May Help Unlock Better Sleep Apnea Treatments

In 2023, Mitchell Miller, a sleep medicine doctor based in Clearwater, Florida, received a visit from an...

Can AI ‘feel’ guilt?

Some sci-fi scenarios depict robots as cold-hearted clankers eager to manipulate human stooges. But that’s not the...

The Pandemic Appears to Have Accelerated Brain Aging, Even in People Who Never Got Covid

More than five years after the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, we are still discovering the after-effects...

Big Tech Asked for Looser Clean Water Act Permitting. Trump Wants to Give It to Them

Last week, the Trump administration announced a set of sweeping AI policy recommendations to “usher in a...

Two colliding galaxies may have birthed this black hole

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

A Secretive US Space Plane Will Soon Test Quantum Navigation Technology

The X-37B, the US Space Force’s secretive space plane, will soon take flight again.On Monday, the Space...
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