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2026 FIFA World Cup players and fans at risk of extreme heat, climate scientists warn

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Almost half of the objects in Earth’s orbit are junk—and that’s only the stuff we know about

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Can hantavirus spread through the air? What we do and don’t know

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Americans are increasingly open to using psychedelics for medical reasons

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59,000-year-old Neanderthal tooth may be oldest evidence of dentistry

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Radar picks up on bird migration. But how do we tell birds and storms apart?

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Are attention spans really shrinking? What the science says

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Baby ‘cosmic fossil’ galaxy brings JWST closer to glimpsing the universe’s first stars

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Tiny robot drones learn to navigate the world like honeybees

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WHO warns the world is falling short of and even reversing its health targets

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Why hantavirus takes so long to show symptoms and what that means for containment

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Quitting weight-loss drugs or a diet can cause weight regain—two strategies could help prevent that

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Each atom in the universe might be unique

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Do you need more protein? What science says about high-protein diets

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Hantavirus treatments are coming, but funding is holding them back

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Ivermectin prescriptions spiked after Mel Gibson touted it for cancer on Joe Rogan’s podcast

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Trump’s FDA Commissioner Marty Makary resigns

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Math reveals the one game of chance you should always accept

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See SpaceX Starship V3 megarocket on the launchpad as it gears up for its next test flight

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China’s Yangtze River has been ‘pirating’ water from the Yellow River for more than a million years, scientists reveal

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PCOS just got a new name—here’s what to know

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NASA’s Apollo moon missions relied on this computer scientist and differential equations

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Gemstones on Mars—why the Red Planet could be harboring rubies, opals, and more

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Is the U.S. in a new era of political violence? Experts say it’s complicated

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Sucker fish are hiding in manta rays’ ‘butthole,’ new study reveals

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Strange crystals found inside wreckage from the first nuclear bomb test

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See the National Park Service’s newest canine rangers

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Tanking is ruining NBA basketball. Can math save it?

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Inside NASA’s ‘very ambitious’ moon base plan

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Protein-boosted foods are everywhere now, but do we actually need more protein?

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This sulfurous hell world might change the way we classify exoplanets

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Hantavirus cruise ship outbreak, risk of microplastics-caused climate warming and Alaska landslide tsunami

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National Academies experts denounce Trump’s NSF board purge

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Is testosterone therapy safe and effective? What we know

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The mangled remains of probes sent to Venus may still be there

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Celebrate Mother’s Day with nine bold, beautiful and bizarre animal moms

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This organoid can menstruate—and shows how tissue can repair itself

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Top climate research center at risk of cuts sues Trump administration

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The leader of NASA’s Psyche mission has tips for interplanetary team building

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Wildfire breaks out inside Chernobyl exclusion zone

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See the Pentagon’s new UFO image release

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AI’s Power Needs Will Destroy the Renewable Energy Revolution

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U.S. neutrino megaproject takes shape in abandoned gold mine

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Pentagon releases trove of new UFO files, but skeptics aren’t impressed

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There is no vaccine for deadly hantavirus, but this scientist is working on one

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Scientists make AI play Battleship to help it do science better

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Is Pluto a planet? That’s asking the wrong question

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The science behind social media’s peptide obsession

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David Attenborough celebrates his 100th birthday

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Trump administration cut funding to study hantavirus, the virus behind deadly cruise ship outbreak

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