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Science
What we know, what we are learning, and what the labs are not telling you.
397Science
Researchers move across borders for better conditions and freedom
Researchers move across borders for better conditions and freedom A researcher in the United Kingdom had spent twenty years studying the geography of power. Andrew Kythreotis examined how decisions about climate change...
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398Science
Chatbots fill health info gaps
Chatbots fill health info gaps The old system for getting health answers was already broken before the first chatbot typed a single word. A person wakes up at 3 AM with a crushing chest pain. They cannot call their...
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399Science
Why a Bad Tooth and a Quantum Particle Taught Me That Two Contradictory Truths Can Both Be Real
Why a Bad Tooth and a Quantum Particle Taught Me That Two Contradictory Truths Can Both Be Real In December 2019, a single bad tooth nearly killed me. The pain started as a dull ache. It grew into a throb that filled my...
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400Science
Cold blob signals slowing Atlantic current
Cold blob signals slowing Atlantic current Imagine a single, stubborn patch of the North Atlantic Ocean that refuses to get hot. While the rest of the world sweats through record breaking summers, this one area grows...
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401Science
A century old vaccine shows promise for diabetes and cancer
A century old vaccine shows promise for diabetes and cancer The Bacillus Calmette Guérin vaccine is one hundred years old. It protects against tuberculosis. Many countries give it to infants. Now scientists test it for...
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402Science
JWST finds bright galaxies that may be brown dwarfs
JWST finds bright galaxies that may be brown dwarfs The universe is both brighter and darker than we ever imagined. It is brighter because the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) has found galaxies from the dawn of time...
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403Science
Dust Reveals Freezing Mistake After 150 Years
Dust Reveals Freezing Mistake After 150 Years In a laboratory in Hamburg, Germany, a researcher once made a small error that changed everything. They forgot to clean a sample holder properly. A trace of dust remained on...
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404Science
A Thousand Years of Silence Ignited a Fire
A Thousand Years of Silence Ignited a Fire A poet once wrote, "The wound is the place where the Light enters you." This line holds a thousand years of human experience. It speaks of how pain can become a teacher. It...
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405Science
Scientists Induce Brain Cleaning Without Sleep in Mice
Scientists Induce Brain Cleaning Without Sleep in Mice Sleep has always been the great divide. You close your eyes, and the world goes dark. Your brain enters a state that scientists have spent decades trying to fully...
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406Science
The aging brain's memory decline and its warning signs
The aging brain's memory decline and its warning signs The word memory comes from the Latin memor, meaning mindful or remembering. But the brain's ability to hold onto moments is not a single faculty. It is a process....
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407Science
UK demands tech giants block child nude images on phones
UK demands tech giants block child nude images on phones The British government now demands that tech companies stop children from creating and sharing nude images on smartphones, yet the same technology that could help...
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408Science
Our ancestors slow messy exodus from Africa
Our ancestors slow messy exodus from Africa The air was cool and dry. A small group of people walked along the edge of a lake. They carried simple tools. They had children with them. They did not know they were making...
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