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Tear gas and pepper spray can have lasting health effects

Stinging clouds of tear gas explode from beneath a car full of children, forcing them to flee...

How to Use Physics to Escape an Ice Bowl

I don't know who invented this crazy challenge, but the idea is to put someone in a...

A Greek star catalog from the dawn of astronomy, revealed

Surrounded by metal pipes and tangles of cables, two researchers point to bright orange squiggles on a...

Placebo-related brain activity boosts antibody counts after a vaccine

Positive thinking may boost the body’s defenses against disease. Increasing activity in a brain region that controls...

Canadian humpback whales thrive with a little help from their friends

For one population of whales, teamwork makes the dream work. Decades after commercial whaling nearly drove them...

Microdosing for Depression Appears to Work About as Well as Drinking Coffee

About a decade ago, many media outlets—including WIRED—zeroed in on a weird trend at the intersection of...

Genes may shape how long we live more than once thought

The length of your life may depend more upon your genes than scientists thought. Once you remove...

Polar bears in the Barents Sea are staying fat despite rapid sea ice loss

Rising temperatures and rapidly melting sea ice threaten polar bears across the Arctic. But the bears...

Artificial lungs kept a man alive until he could get a transplant

Surgeons removed a man’s irreparably damaged lungs and kept him alive for 48 hours with artificial...

A massive clump of dark matter may lurk in the Milky Way

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

This Chinese Startup Wants to Build a New Brain-Computer Interface—No Implant Required

China’s brain-computer interface industry is growing fast, and the newest company to emerge from the country is...

Data Centers Are Driving a US Gas Boom

Data centers have caused the demand for gas-fired power in the US to explode over the past...
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