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Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame? | Continue reading
Amaterasu—the most powerful cosmic ray seen in three decades—seems to come from an empty point of the sky. New telescopes may solve the mystery of its origins | Continue reading
Massive buried structures at Gunung Padang in Indonesia have been described as much older than Egypt’s great pyramids in a new study, but some doubt they’re even human constructions | Continue reading
A surge in respiratory disease in China appears to be caused by known pathogens, but the pattern of infections is still unusual | Continue reading
An estimated 460,000 deaths in the U.S. were attributable to coal-fired power plant pollution between 1999 and 2020, new research finds | Continue reading
PFAS can enter the food chain through marine plants and animals and hurt human health | Continue reading
Microbes tear up plastic into teeny tiny pieces that are even more dangerous to ecosystems | Continue reading
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States that adopt updated building codes also could see big savings in energy bills | Continue reading
Your questions about eye drop contamination answered by infectious disease experts | Continue reading
Despite criticism, a slate of new scientific studies show that forensic firearms analysis is a reliable scientific discipline that the criminal justice system should trust | Continue reading
A relatively new procedure, ECPR, improves on traditional CPR, but it may be difficult to implement nationwide | Continue reading
The sand drawings of Vanuatu follow principles from a branch of mathematics known as graph theory | Continue reading
An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts | Continue reading
An AI model could speed up laborious and dangerous demining efforts | Continue reading
Racial and gender disparities persist in award-winning kids’ literature despite recent gains in representation | Continue reading
Some astrocytes, thought to play only a supportive role in the brain, can communicate with neurons | Continue reading
Scientists can finally predict a chemical’s odor without having a human sniff it | Continue reading
Heat pumps are ubiquitous in the form of air conditioners. Scientists just invented one that avoids harmful refrigerant gases | Continue reading
The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief. | Continue reading
This beginner’s guide to telescope basics will help make holiday shopping a little more heavenly | Continue reading
Our planet’s crust has been shifting and sliding for four billion years, a new study suggests | Continue reading
Dirty air has been linked to poor health outcomes, ranging from suicidality to low birth weight | Continue reading
Money, engineering, and sheer geometry may mark an end of the line for building ever larger astronomical telescopes | Continue reading
Like the Northern Hemisphere before it, the Southern Hemisphere is set to be enveloped by sweltering heat during its upcoming summer | Continue reading
Gluten’s unique chemistry gives foods like bread and rolls their airy, stretchy textures | Continue reading
The Biden administration is poised to release rules and guidance to curb emissions of methane, a powerful greenhouse gas | Continue reading
Scientists still can’t explain what is causing unusually bright explosions in space—but a surprising observation might offer clues | Continue reading
A year of exciting ideas and research has given us much to be grateful for | Continue reading
The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground. | Continue reading
Food scientists break down what food is the first to go bad and simple ways of extending leftovers’ shelf life | Continue reading
The Amazon rain forest is in the middle of a record-breaking drought because of deforestation, El Niño and climate change | Continue reading
Survivors of gun violence, especially young ones, are often forgotten among those affected by such shootings, and they bear a substantial health burden over the following year | Continue reading
A new study has found that the use of AI tools such as ChatGPT in the workplace entrenches biased language based on gender | Continue reading
Historically, only women’s drinking was considered a risk during pregnancy, but new research points to the role of fathers’ habits as well | Continue reading
A projected drop in U.S. greenhouse gas emissions—one of the largest of the past decade—is still not enough to meet the country’s commitments under the Paris climate accord | Continue reading
The Xuntian Space Telescope is China’s entry in a global race to unlock the secrets of dark energy, and it will now lift off no earlier than mid-2025 | Continue reading
Artificial intelligence models are getting bigger, along with the data sets used to train them. But scaling down could solve some big AI problems | Continue reading
A quarter of a century after detecting dark energy, scientists are still trying to figure out what it is | Continue reading
Access to pediatric COVID vaccines has been hampered by a shortage of doses, higher costs to providers and parental skepticism | Continue reading
The International Space Station—larger than a football field and weighing almost 450 tons—must eventually fall to Earth. It’s a delicate, dangerous process | Continue reading
The idea of treating neurological disorders by marshaling vast unused neural reserves is more wishful thinking than reality | Continue reading
Thinking about a range of emotions as friends rather than foes improves the quality of our life | Continue reading
Wolves and other animals seeking easy meals and ideal habitat can flock into areas burned by wildfire | Continue reading
Here is a snapshot of the warming world, from sea-level rise to fossil fuel subsidies to renewable energy growth | Continue reading
SpaceX’s Starship—the most powerful rocket ever built—experienced a “rapid unscheduled disassembly” in its otherwise successful second full-scale launch, triggering a federal investigation into what went wrong | Continue reading
Research on morality shows that it can counterintuitively impede peace and progress | Continue reading