SCIENCE
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Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’
Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’ Charged water droplets generate sparks that can forge organic compounds By…
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Trump EPA Unveils Aggressive Plans to Dismantle Climate Regulation, Endangerment Finding
CLIMATEWIRE | EPA on Wednesday announced it was walking away from virtually every important climate policy on the books, charting…
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9 Unsolved Mysteries in Mathematics
Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are…
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How to Watch the Total Lunar Eclipse on March 13
Behold! As the Ides of March approaches, witness as Earth’s shadow engulfs the moon! Or, put another way, a total…
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Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a ‘Woolly Mouse’
The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere…
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Interjections Are, Uh, More Important than We Thought
Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm,…
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Trump Firings and Funding Freezes Leave Western States Scrambling to Prepare for Wildfire Season
CLIMATEWIRE | Lawmakers and officials from Western states are warning that President Donald Trump’s firings and funding freezes will leave…
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Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread
Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are…
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Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical
February 20, 2025 3 min read Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft…
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A Norovirus Vaccine Is Closer Than Ever Before
Norovirus conjures a nightmarish series of gastrointestinal symptoms, and the hated infection has been rampant this winter. The so-called stomach…
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