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As Measles Cases Surge, Mexico Issues a US Travel Alert

As the US struggles to contain its worst measles outbreak in years, cases have spilled over into...

Europe’s Devastating Power Outage in Photos

Grounded subways, canceled flights, stores, hospitals, and offices completely in the dark: This is the situation following...

The Agonizing Task of Turning Europe’s Power Back On

At 12:30 pm local time on Monday, the power went out. Across Spain and Portugal trains, planes,...

How will the LA fires affect the ocean? These researchers are racing to find out

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

Two cities stopped adding fluoride to water. Science reveals what happened

Warren Loeppky has been a pediatric dentist in the Canadian city of Calgary for 20 years. Over...

Bird flu in cows shows no signs of adapting to humans — yet

WASHINGTON — When traces of H5N1 bird flu showed up in cow’s milk last year, it raised...

Scientists Believe They’ve Witnessed ‘Planetary Suicide’ for the First Time

Two years ago, astronomers believe they detected a star devouring one of its planets. Now, new observations...

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit...

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System

This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.The tricky thing about...

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars

The NASA rover Perseverance recently discovered a strange rock on Mars, which appears to be made up...

Ancient, water-loving rhinos gathered in big, hippolike herds

Millions of years ago in Nebraska, chunky, stumpy-legged rhinoceroses were party animals, crowding together in huge herds...

The United States’ oldest known rock has existed for at least 3.6 billion years

A weathered sign in the Minnesota River Valley proudly proclaims: “World’s Oldest Rock.” Erected in 1975, it...
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