Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA

Trump’s Plan for Elon Musk to Bring the ‘Stranded’ Astronauts Home ASAP Is a Headache for NASA
For reasons that were not immediately clear, SpaceX founder Elon Musk took to his social media site X on Tuesday ...
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Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety

Federal Spending Freeze Threatens Ecosystems and Public Safety
Environmental advocates warned that the order could have immediate and dire consequences for Americans if it takes effect. “From the ...
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Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life

Scientists Recreate the Conditions That Sparked Complex Life
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Far from being solo operators, most single-celled microbes are in ...
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The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It

The Less People Know About AI, the More They Like It
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. The rapid spread of artificial intelligence has people ...
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Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality

Science Has Spun Spider-Man’s Web-Slinging Into Reality
Slowly but surely, we are making good on the gadgets we imagined, as kids, that the future would hold. Penny ...
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This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin

This Man Eats So Much Butter, Cheese, and Beef That Cholesterol Oozes From His Skin
What could go wrong with eating an extremely high-fat diet of beef, cheese, and sticks of butter? Well, for one ...
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The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One

The US Has Bird Flu Vaccines. Here’s Why You Can’t Get One
As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to ...
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Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster

Trump’s Plan to Leave the WHO Is a Health Disaster
In the summer of 2020, 15 recognized leaders in US public health gathered to author an article in The Lancet—one ...
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Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis

Trump’s Day One Executive Orders Will Worsen Climate Crisis
On his first day in office, President Trump has signed a slew of executive orders that will set the United ...
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There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers

There’s a New Way to Count Prime Numbers
But that wasn’t obvious. They’d have to analyze a special set of functions, called Type I and Type II sums, ...
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