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Five Essential Books on Plastic, Power, and Pollution

Experts Explain How Botulism Toxin Can End Up in Baby Formula

Why a Little Heartbeat Irregularity Can Be Good for You

We Need Laws to Stop AI-Generated Deepfakes

Science Crossword: A Destructive Fix

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Math Puzzle: Falling Through

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Personalized mRNA Vaccines Will Revolutionize Cancer Treatment—If Federal Funding Cuts Don’t Doom Them

How Fossil-Fuel Companies Are Driving Plastic Production and Pollution

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The Leonid Meteor Shower Is Peaking—Here’s How to Watch This Fireball-Filled Event

Nuclear-Waste Arks Are a Bold Experiment in Protecting Future Generations

How to Send a Message to Future Civilizations

How Forbes Sent E-mails to the Future—And What Happened 20 Years Later

Does Information Ever Really Disappear? Physics Has an Answer

Can a Buried Time Capsule Beat Earth’s Geology and Deep Time?

How Influential People Map Their Social World

How Technology and Friendship Preserved a 20-Year E-mail Time Capsule

Scientists Create 3.3 Trillion Degree Particle Soup to Mimic the Universe Just after the Big Bang

Life Expectancy with Type 1 Diabetes Varies Dramatically by Nation

Amelia Earhart Records Released by U.S. Spy Agency

Scientists Unearth Mysterious Meteorite Crater in China

Man With Tick-Borne Meat Allergy Dies after Eating Burger

Sun Continues Celestial Fireworks Display with Powerful Solar Flare

New Glenn Rocket Launch Tests Jared Isaacman’s Commercial Space Vision for NASA

Woolly Mammoth Unlocks Reveals the World’s Oldest RNA

Stranded Chinese Astronauts Return to Earth, but Space Junk Threats Remain

Raccoons Are Showing Early Signs of Domestication

Global Study Reveals Best Cities for Walking and Cycling

We Had a Name for ‘Galaxies’ before We Knew They Existed

A New Kind of Vaccine Offers Hope for Surviving Pancreatic Cancer

Blue Origin’s NASA Launch to Mars Is a Shot across the Bow for Elon Musk’s SpaceX

Are Turkeys at Risk of Bird Flu This Thanksgiving?

Dog Skull Analysis Rewrites Evolution of Humanity’s Best Friend

Jeffrey Epstein E-mails Reveal Ties to Prominent Scientists

‘Godfather of AI’ Breaks Major Science Research Record

What Causes Cancer? Maud Slye Thought She Had the Answer and a Way to Stop It

Chinese Expedition Reveals Unexplored Section of Mysterious Arctic Ocean Ridge

Scientists Might Soon Predict the Ocean’s Rogue Waves

CIA Kryptos Puzzle Creator Releases Final Clues

Heat Waves Will Be Less Extreme because of Paris Climate Agreement

The Epstein-Barr Virus May Cause Lupus

IEA Now Predicts Oil and Gas Demand Will Rise beyond 2030, Departing from Previous Forecasts