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Migrating whale sharks make pit stops at oil and gas rigs

Like rolling into a gas station during a road trip, whale sharks use oil and gas...

How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out

There’s something scary in the water at Cape Fear. For years, chemicals giant DuPont and the company...

Your Love Life on Ozempic

Shane Desmond has been taking Wegovy only since the beginning of January, but he’s already noticing benefits....

Historical writings reveal how people weathered the Little Ice Age

“Dear diary, it was freezing outside today…” If someone today wrote that in their journal, it might...

Just a small rise in global temperatures could be deadly

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

Wiggling ears may have once helped us hear

Ancient ear-wiggling muscles kick on when people strain to hear. That auricular activity, described January 30 in...

Breaking negative thought patterns could ward off anxiety, depression

Nipping negative repetitive thinking in the bud has the potential to stave off numerous mental health disorders....

Spooky floating lights in South Carolina could be earthquake farts

A South Carolina ghost story could have a very earthly explanation. Starting in the 1950s, folks in...

It’s Spring on Mars—and That Means Violently Explosive Geysers and Avalanches

Because its axis of rotation is tilted at about 25 degrees, Mars has four seasons, just like...

NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’

A US National Institutes of Health notice announcing a drastic cut in federal science funding appears to...

A fungus named after Sir David Attenborough zombifies cave spiders

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

A man volunteered to get brain implants for depression. Hear his story

Meet Jon Nelson. He’s a dad, a husband, a coach and a professional who works in marketing....
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