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The Hidden Math of Ocean Waves

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.The best perk of Alberto Maspero’s job, he...

A Gene Editing Therapy Cut Cholesterol Levels by Half

In a step toward the wider use of gene editing, a treatment that uses Crispr successfully slashed...

Trump’s Hatred of EVs Is Making Gas Cars More Expensive

This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As President Donald...

Unpicking How to Measure the Complexity of Knots

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 1876, Peter Guthrie Tait set out to...

A special shape shift helps a shrub thrive in blistering heat

From growing smaller leaves to shape-shifting its insides, a desert flowering plant goes all in to flourish...

What causes the rainbow shimmer of ammolite gems?

The jewels nabbed in the Louvre heist may still be at large, but scientists have just closed...

How to Follow the Trajectory of Comet 3I/Atlas

the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas recently reached its perihelion, the point at which it is closest to the...

Woodpecker hammering is a full-body affair

Hidden beneath all their rum-pum-pumming, woodpeckers are quietly grunt-grunt-grunting. The birds exhale with each strike, much like...

Water jets may break up into droplets thanks to jiggling molecules

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

How did Pluto capture its largest moon, Charon?

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

Blood Tests for Alzheimer’s Are Here

Last month, The US Food and Drug Administration approved a new blood test for assisting the diagnosis...

There’s math behind this maddening golf mishap

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