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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...

Harmful heat doesn’t always come in waves

In recent weeks, extreme heat waves have broiled the United States, China and Europe. But scientists are...

A barrage of radiation couldn’t kill this hardy life-form

An unassuming lichen harbors a hidden superpower: It’s remarkably resistant to ultraviolet radiation. New experiments on the...

Mysterious ‘little red dot’ galaxies have a possible origin story

The early universe is speckled with little red dots, and now we may have an idea of...

Space Elevators Could Totally Work—if Earth Days Were Much Shorter

Suppose you could speed up Earth’s rotation so that a day was only half as long? What...
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