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The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space

Immunotherapy is one of the most promising new ways to fight cancer, but it takes forever. It...

The Real Reason Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER

Today the Supreme Court of the United States heard oral arguments in a consequential case that threatens...

Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed so Quickly

Just shy of half past one in the morning, the MV Dali, a giant container ship, was...

Enjoy Your Favorite Wine Before Climate Change Destroys It

Unless you’ve got a cellar stockpiled to last you the rest of your life, climate change is...

A teeny device can measure subtle shifts in Earth’s gravitational field

There’s a new entrant in the competition to develop ever-tinier instruments that can detect changes in our...

An extinct sofa-sized turtle may have lived alongside humans

As little as 9,000 years ago, a sofa-sized turtle paddled around the Brazilian Amazon. The finding, based...

By fluttering its wings, this bird uses body language to tell its mate ‘after you’

Be it an arched eyebrow, a shaken head or a raised finger, humans wordlessly communicate complex ideas...

AI learned how to sway humans by watching a cooperative cooking game

If you’ve ever cooked a complex meal with someone, you know the level of coordination required. Someone...

Large Language Models’ Emergent Abilities Are a Mirage

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Two years ago, in a project called the...

Are You Noise Sensitive? Here’s How to Tell

As a mom of three boys, I can barely hear my thoughts against the cacophony of my...

How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person

It’s shadow time, baby! Soon, people living in North America will get to experience their first solar...

The US Is About to Drown in a Sea of Kittens

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.It’s almost that magical...
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