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Sulfur was key to the first water on Earth

A chemical element that’s not even in H2O — sulfur — is the reason Earth first got...

Plants might not hold on to carbon as long as we thought

Earth’s plants aren’t holding onto carbon as long as we thought. A new analysis of pulses of...

Jurassic Park’s amber-preserved dino DNA is now inspiring a way to store data 

Sometimes science fiction does inspire science research. À la Jurassic Park’s entombed mosquito, scientists have developed a...

It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries

Do you have a collection of old cell phones in a desk drawer somewhere because you don’t...

Everything You See Is a Computational Process, If You Know How to Look

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In the movie Oppenheimer, Niels Bohr challenges the physicist early...

Hurricanes Are Trapping Small Island Nations in Ever-Worsening Spirals of Debt

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Hurricane Beryl laid waste to communities—even...

America’s Aging Dams Are a Catastrophe Waiting to Happen

This story originally appeared on Inside Climate News and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Minnesota’s century-old...

Striving to break the global grip of malnutrition

Nancy Shute is editor in chief of Science News Media Group. Previously, she was an editor...

Readers ask about noise pollution and beluga melons

Sounds like trouble Exposing zebra finch eggs and hatchlings to traffic noise can lead...

It’s Shockingly Easy to Buy Off-Brand Ozempic Online, Even If You Don’t Need It

The health care industry has never encountered anything quite like Ozempic before. First approved to treat Type...

World record speeds for two Olympics events have fallen over time. We can go faster

Ready, set, go break a record. As elite athletes compete for top accolades in the 2024 Summer...

A Dune-inspired spacesuit turns astronaut pee into drinking water

In the science-fiction series Dune, the desert-dwelling Fremen of the arid planet Arrakis recycle their body’s moisture...
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