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New audio tech could let you listen privately without headphones

Controlling sound has long been a staple of science fiction and fantasy. In Dune, the cone of...

FDA plan to ban fluoride supplements baffles and alarms dental experts

A decades-old dental health treatment may soon vanish in the United States. Access to fluoride supplements, prescribed...

An at-home cervical cancer screening device was OK‘d by the FDA

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

A Baby Received a Custom Crispr Treatment in Record Time

Last August, KJ Muldoon was born with a potentially fatal genetic disorder. Just six months later, he...

Seafloor amber may hold hints of a tsunami 115 million years ago

Wavelike patterns in 115-million-year-old amber suggest that a long-ago tsunami inundated what is now northern Japan, researchers...

What gene makes orange cats orange? Scientists figured it out

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

Cryopreservation is not sci-fi. It may save plants from extinction

Early one morning in 1985, a pair of researchers trekked into a spit of Colombian rainforest surrounded...

Blocked From Selling Off-Brand Ozempic, Telehealth Startups Embrace a Less Effective Drug

After telehealth startups recently lost the ability to sell exact copies of patented GLP-1 weight-loss drugs, some...

SpaceX Tests Starship Fixes After Back-to-Back Failures

SpaceX fired six Raptor engines on the company's next Starship rocket on Monday, clearing a major hurdle...

The EPA Is Giving Some Forever Chemicals a Pass

The EPA on Wednesday said it would change a rule intended to protect Americans from forever chemicals...

This exquisite Archaeopteryx fossil reveals how flight took off in birds

An exceptionally preserved specimen of the ancient bird Archaeopteryx offers the most detailed window yet into the...

HHS says new vaccines should be tested against placebos. They already are

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