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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
01Science
A Third of Infant Peanut Allergies Vanish Before the First Birthday
Australia now runs a national experiment that no other country has attempted at this scale. Since July 2024, every infant diagnosed with peanut allergy before twelve months of age has been offered free treatment across...
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02Science
The Galaxy We Almost Misread
IC 342 sits behind a curtain. To see it, an observer must look straight through the flat disk of our own Milky Way through every cloud of gas, every grain of dust, every star that the galaxy throws in the line of sight....
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03Science
Socks That Stiffen the Foot and Lighten the Step
The idea sounds almost too simple to have taken this long. Since humans diverged from chimpanzees around six million years ago, human feet have become much stiffer than those of other apes, which assisted our upright...
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04Science
A Forest Joins the Author List, and Other November Science Books
Something unusual has happened to the author byline. A book aimed at readers aged five and up about a cloud forest in the Intac valley of northwestern Ecuador lists, alongside nature writer Robert Macfarlane and other...
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05Science
When a Monthly Check Becomes a Lifeline for Newborns
Flint, Michigan, spent years as shorthand for poisoned water and public distrust. Now the same city is the site of an experiment in which one variable an unconditional cash payment appears to move the most unforgiving...
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06Science
A Streak of Light, a Comet Far Behind
A meteor can blaze across the same frame as a comet and still have nothing to do with it. The apparent contradiction dissolves once the depth of the scene is considered: the comet lies far behind the meteor, so the two...
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07Science
Acid, Bone, and Blood: A 115-Million-Year-Old Fossil Yields Cells That Should Not Exist
The fossil that produced this result would never have been chosen for a museum wall. It is a nondescript fragment of hind limb bone from a theropod dinosaur called Aratasaurus museunacionali, recovered in northeastern...
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08Science
November's Sky: Meteors, a Planetary Pairing, and a Voyager Milestone
The Taurid meteors arrive in two waves, and the reason for the split is geometric rather than physical. The Southern Taurids reach their peak around November 5th. The Northern Taurids follow roughly a week later,...
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09Science
COP31 Opens in Antalya as a Summit Designed Not to Surprise Anyone
Antalya, the Turkish beachside city better known for sunburned tourists than for treaty language, becomes the climate capital of the world for two weeks starting on 9 November. Tens of thousands of delegates arrive for...
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10Science
A Vaccine Against Acne Rewrites What Pimples Actually Are
Battlefield but a False Alarm For generations, the working picture of a pimple was simple and wrong. Bacteria invade, the body fights, pus forms. That model cannot survive a single observation: the bacterium at the...
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11Science
Antarctic Sea Ice Loss Is Salting the Ocean's Middle Layer
Satellites looking down on the Southern Ocean have watched a white ring around Antarctica shrink with unusual speed. From 2014, when the sea ice reached its highest extent in the satellite record, to 2016, when it...
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12Science
Science Fiction's November Harvest Refuses to Stay in One Lane
Start with the audio drama "Exoplanet." Andy Weir, author of "The Martian" and "Project Hail Mary," produces it; Benjamin Percy writes it. Audible releases it as a full cast audio drama. A quantum anomaly tears a...
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