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This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force...

‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now

Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the...

Can geoengineering plans save glaciers and slow sea level rise?

Citations H. Seroussi et al. Evolution of the Antarctic Ice Sheet over the next three centuries from...

Earth’s first waterfowl may have lived in Antarctica 69 million years ago

An ancient bird that swam in Antarctica’s balmier waters 69 million years ago may be the earliest...

Will the Endangered Species Act survive Trump?

Now that Donald Trump has reassumed the presidency of the United States, scientists and legal scholars are...

Are AI chatbot ‘personalities’ in the eye of the beholder?

When Yang “Sunny” Lu asked OpenAI’s GPT-3.5 to calculate 1-plus-1 a few years ago, the chatbot, not...

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

A little after 6:25 am on November 8, 2018, a 911 dispatcher received the first report of...

Quantum mechanics was born 100 years ago. Physicists are celebrating

A century ago, science went quantum. To celebrate, physicists are throwing a global, year-long party. In 1925,...

The moon’s two grand canyons formed in less than 10 minutes

A giant impact 3.8 billion years ago sent a curtain of rock flying away from a point...

Toxic dangers lurk in LA, even in homes that didn’t burn

Even as firefighters douse the deadly LA wildfires, a more insidious danger remains. Chemicals from the ashy...

A new book explores the evolutionary romance between plants and animals

When the Earth Was GreenRiley BlackSt. Martin’s Press, $29 Imagine being a paleontologist exploring Utah’s...

Plastic shards permeate human brains

Our brains are increasingly plastic. Minuscule shards and flakes of polymers are surprisingly abundant in brain tissue,...
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