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Could Iran Have Been Close to Making a Nuclear Weapon? Uranium Enrichment Explained

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Five Climate Issues to Watch When Trump Goes to Canada

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Air-Conditioning Can Help the Power Grid instead of Overloading It

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How a Tiny Brain Region Guides Generosity

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Quantum Computers Simulate Particle 'String Breaking' in a Physics Breakthrough

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Tectonic Plates Can ‘Infect’ One Another with Earth-Shaking Subduction Zones

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Mapping Nearby Stars Could Solve a Deep Cosmic Mystery

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Invasive Asian Needle Ant’s Sting Is Painful, Can Cause Anaphylaxis

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Djungarian Hamsters Are Unusually Involved Fathers

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Trump EPA Announces Climate Regulation Rollback but Faces Legal Hurdles

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Brain Implant Lets Man with ALS Speak and Sing with His ‘Real Voice’

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Blockbuster New Vera C. Rubin Observatory Will Change Astronomy Forever

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Injured Skin Cells Fire like Neurons to ‘Scream’ for Help

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Planned NIH Cuts Threaten Americans’ Health, Senators Charge in Tense Hearing

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FEMA Overhaul Will Come after Hurricane Season, Trump Says

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Animals Expend 76,000 Gigajoules of Energy Sculpting Our Planet Every Year

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New Map Shows How Gun Deaths of Children Have Increased in States with Loose Firearm Laws

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Solar Orbiter Captures the First-Ever Images of the Sun’s South Pole

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Why Some Animals Live for Days and Others Live for Decades

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How RFK, Jr.’s Dismissal of CDC’s Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices Will Affect U.S. Vaccine Access

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White House Launches Another Assault on Science Funding, Targeting NSF, EPA

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Gorilla Gourmets Are Actually Truffle Hunting

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Can You Still Get a COVID Vaccine This Fall? Here’s What to Know

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When Letting Your Mind Wander Helps You Learn

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Why the Waymo Car Fires in Recent Los Angeles Protests Caused the Robotaxis to Burn So Completely

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How the Mathematics of Honesty Underlies These Auctions

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How to Protect Yourself from Recent Salmonella Outbreak in Recalled Eggs

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A Mysterious Kidney Disease Epidemic Is Killing Thousands of Young Men. What’s behind It?

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A Blockbuster ‘Muon Anomaly’ May Have Just Disappeared

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Superheroes Represent Something Different to Today’s Kids

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Milky Way–Andromeda Collision Is in Doubt, North Atlantic Ocean Heat Surged, and Worms Build Towers

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The Trump-Musk Fight Could Have Huge Consequences for U.S. Space Programs

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Resilience, a Private Japanese Spacecraft, Crash-Landed on the Moon

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Inside the Secret Meeting Where Mathematicians Struggled to Outsmart AI

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Forest Preservation, Tree Planting Could Actually Worsen Climate Change

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Trump’s Cuts Threaten NASA Plans for Astronauts on Mars

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What Is the Analemma?

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The National Weather Service Is Understaffed and Underfunded. Here’s Why That Matters.

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New NWS Hires Won’t Make Up for Trump Cuts, Meteorologists Say

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This ‘Tower of Worms’ Is a Squirming Superorganism

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How We Solve the Climate Crisis

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Mathematicians Solve Multidimensional Shape-Slicing Dilemma

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What Will Happen to Opioid and Drug Overdose Deaths after CDC Cuts?

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Nuclear Weapon Strike Decisions Could Come Down to Human Suggestibility

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How Velvet Worm Slime Hardens in Seconds to Trap Prey

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Proposed Federal Budget Would Devastate U.S. Space Science

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Is NASA Ready for Death in Space?

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