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Teen AI Chatbot Usage Sparks Mental Health and Regulation Concerns

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People Are Using TikTok to Sell Endangered Animals to Eat

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Beeple’s Art Basel Robot Dogs Satirize Musk, Zuckerberg and Our AI Future

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Uterine Fibroids Significantly Raise Risk of Heart Disease

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Scientists Explain How mRNA COVID Vaccines May Rarely Cause Myocarditis

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NASA Loses Signal from Critical Mars Orbiter

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MERS, a Deadly Coronavirus, Resurfaces in France for First Time in 12 Years

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Ancient Humans Were Making Fire 350,000 Years Earlier Than Scientists Realized

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Improved ‘Terminator’ Sun Model Could Change Space Weather Forecasting

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How Animals Form Unlikely Alliances to Keep Predators Away

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Can NASA Bring Mars Rocks Back to Earth?

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Earthquake Science and Fiction Collide in Tilt

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RFK, Jr., Questions Safety of Approved RSV Shots for Babies

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Human Missions to Mars Must Search for Alien Life, New Report Finds

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NASA’s JWST Spots Most Ancient Supernova Ever Observed

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Pompeii House Frozen Mid-Renovation Reveals Secrets of Roman Cement

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OpenAI’s Secrets are Revealed in Empire of AI

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Black Hole Caught Blasting Matter into Space at 130 Million MPH

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This Weekend’s Geminids Meteor Shower Should Be Spectacular

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Space-Based Data Centers Could Power AI with Solar Energy—At a Cost

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Mathematicians Crack a Fractal Conjecture on Chaos

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Breakthrough in Digital Screens Takes Color Resolution to Incredibly Small Scale

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2025 Likely to Tie for Second-Hottest Year on Record

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AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals

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Chernobyl’s Shield Guarding Radioactive “Elephant’s Foot” Has Been Damaged for Months

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Watch Lava From Hawaii’s Kilauea Volcano Obliterate a Webcam

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Tsunami Warnings Issued in Japan after Magnitude 7.6 Earthquake

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Vitamin K Shot Given at Birth Prevents Lethal Brain Bleeds, but More Parents Are Opting Out

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Infrasound Tech Silences Wildfires before They Spread

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Vaccine Controversies and Measles Outbreaks, Space Pollution, Puppy Power

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Death by Fermented Food

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Why Are ADHD Rates On the Rise?

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How Close Are Today’s AI Models to AGI—And to Self-Improving into Superintelligence?

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Why Leftover Pizza Is Actually Healthier: The Science of ‘Resistant Starch’ Explained

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Is a River Alive? A Conversation with Robert Macfarlane on Nature’s Sovereignty

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Was the ‘Star of Bethlehem’ Really a Comet?

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Plastic Pollution Will More than Double by 2040, Yielding a Garbage Truck's Worth of Waste Each Second

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What If the Moon Were Cheese? John Scalzi’s Latest Book Has the Answer

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CDC Vaccine Panel Scraps Guidance for Universal Hepatitis B Shots at Birth

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Daniel H. Wilson on Finding a Native Take on Traditional Alien Invasion Stories

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Extremophile ‘Fire Amoeba’ Pushes the Boundaries of Complex Life

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China’s Explosive Zhuque-3 Test Previews the Global Race for Reusable Rockets

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Aluminum Is Crucial to Vaccines—And Safe. Why Are CDC Advisers Debating It?

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Telecom Fiber-Optic Cables Measured an Earthquake in Incredible Detail

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Cosmic Magnification Is One of the Universe’s Weirdest Optical Illusions

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How Zuranolone, a Fast-Acting Drug, Might Help Those Suffering with Postpartum Depression

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CDC Vaccine Panel in Disarray over Hepatitis B Vote

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U.S. Man Dies of Rabies after Receiving Infected Kidney Transplant

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Scientific American’s Best Nonfiction of 2025

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Scientific American’s Best Fiction of 2025

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