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Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Hit the Moon, Measles Cases Rise, and States Sue HHS

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Breakthrough Prizes Awarded to Obesity-Drug Pioneers and Large Hadron Collider Physicists

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Dennis Gaitsgory Wins Breakthrough Prize for Solving Part of Math’s Grand Unified Theory

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Brain Structure That Filters Consciousness Identified

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Whooping Cough Killed Two Children in Louisiana. Here’s How to Protect Kids

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Utah’s Decision to Ban Fluoride Is a Bad Move for Kids

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Google DeepMind Taught Itself to Play Minecraft

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Tornado Damage Surveys Are a Crucial Tool for Understanding These Dangerous Storms

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FEMA to Halt Billions in Grants for Disaster Protection, Internal Memo Says

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Google, X and Facebook Are Modern-Day Tobacco Companies

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The Kakeya Conjecture, a Decades-Old Math Problem, Is Solved in Three Dimensions

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There Are 4,000 Species of Native Bees in the U.S.

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How Many Rogue Planets Are in the Milky Way?

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What Happens When USAID’s Global Public Health Programs Go Away?

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The Uninhabited Heard and McDonald Islands, Targeted by Tariffs, Are a Biological Wonderland

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JWST Delivers Best-Yet Look at That Worrisome Asteroid

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Bonobo Calls Are More like Human Language Than We Thought

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Secretive Russian Military Satellites Release Mystery Object into Orbit

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Xenolinguistics—the Study of Alien Languages—Helps to Reveal Why All Beings Communicate

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Trump Staff Cuts Hollow Out Extreme Heat Programs

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Go Inside a Mexican Wolf Recovery Project Whose Future Is Now Uncertain

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JWST’s Fourth Year of Amazing Science Faces Funding Woes

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Pioneering Female Doctor Evangelina Rodríguez Faced a Dictator’s Reign of Terror

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Why Some People Follow Authoritarian Leaders—And The Key to Stopping It

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New Plan for Particle Physics Megaproject Leaves out Funding Details

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Why Aurora Physicists Are Excited about Fram2’s Private Astronauts

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Tiny, Injectable Pacemaker Runs on Light and then Dissolves

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The Science behind Baseball’s ‘Torpedo Bats’

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Trump’s Tariffs Are Expected to Undermine the Clean Energy Transition

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Shingles Vaccination May Help Protect People from Alzheimer’s Disease

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Trump Administration Attacks on Science Trigger Backlash from Researchers

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Do We Live inside a Black Hole?

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The Hubble Tension Is Becoming a Hubble Crisis

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Groupthink Explains Defense Department’s Signal Chat Fiasco

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What Is ‘Squirting’? The Science behind the Controversial Phenomenon Explained

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NIH Director Removes Four Main Scientists amid Massive Staff Purge

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SpaceX’s Fram2 Mission Sends Four Private Astronauts into Polar Orbit

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Trump Administration Cancels NIH Scientific Integrity Policy

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As Happened in Texas, Ignoring EPA Science Will Allow Pollution and Cancer to Fester

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Even Four-Year-Olds Instinctively Fact-Check for Misinformation

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As Measles Continues to Rise, CDC Muffles Vaccine Messaging

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Watch SpaceX Launch Historic Fram2 Crewed Mission over Earth’s Poles Tonight

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Big Banks Quietly Prepare for Catastrophic Climate Change

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Is There a Plus Side to Mental Labor?

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Top U.S. Researchers Warn against ‘Climate of Fear’ Threatening Science

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Why 50-Degree-F Days Feel Warmer in Spring Than in Fall

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Does Intermittent Fasting Improve Health beyond Weight Loss?

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Time Spent in Nature Is Good for Your Brain, but an Excess Can Negate These Benefits

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The Sounds of Sharks, Meaning behind Mars Molecule and Federal Cuts to Science and Health Agencies

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Are Near-Death Experiences the Brain's Attempt to Survive Lethal Threats?

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