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Insurers Aren’t Saying Whether They’ll Cover Vaccines for Kids if Government Stops Recommending Them

In the wake of the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) announcing plans to revisit its recommended...

A new diabetes treatment could free people from insulin injections

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

How to Travel to the Most Remote Office on Earth

In November 2023, Jessica Studer, a 33-year-old research medical doctor and professional pianist from Bremgarten, Switzerland, prepared...

Feeling Hoarse? You Might Have the New ‘Stratus’ Covid Variant

Another NEW covid variant is currently rapidly gaining a foothold. Known officially as XFG—or informally as “Stratus”—it...

A rare chance to see two exploding stars is happening in the southern sky

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

The Senate Just Put Clean Energy for AI in the Crosshairs

After more than a day of continuous debate, the US Senate passed its version of the budget...

Popular weight-loss drugs may ease migraines too

GLP-1 drugs may possess a new power: Easing migraines. In a small, preliminary study, a GLP-1 drug...

A new ‘eye’ may radically change how robots see

This hexapod robot recognizes its surroundings using a vision system that occupies less storage space than a...

This painless nanoneedle patch might one day replace certain biopsies

A patch containing tens of millions of nanoneedles can read what’s happening in our cells on the...

See how the herpesvirus reshapes our cells’ DNA in just eight hours

The herpesvirus can manipulate our DNA with far more precision than previously thought. The virus condenses and...

Student Solves a Long-Standing Problem About the Limits of Addition

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The simplest ideas in mathematics can also be...

The World Is Producing More Food than Ever—but Not for Long

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Globally, humanity is producing...
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