Hunga Tonga eruption put over 50B kilograms of water into the stratosphere

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Longevity breakthrough as scientists discover how to reverse aging in skeletal muscle

The Little-Known Story of the Women Who Stood Up to General Motors and Demanded Equal Pay

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An exploding king: Why Queen Elizabeth II’s coffin was lined with lead

The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns

There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies

Ukraine war: Russians flee to border after military call-up

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Habitable Planets Will Most Likely be Cold, Dry “Pale Yellow Dots”

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MIT researchers advance cooling technology that does not use electricity

Facebook Proven to Negatively Impact Mental Health

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NTSB wants alcohol detection systems installed in all new cars in US

How (and Why) the FBI Mysteriously Shut Down a Federal Solar Observatory

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Scientists Dream of Water on Newly Discovered ‘Super-Earth’ Exoplanet

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A new study asks: Are we harming blood donors by taking blood from them?

The Quiet Arms Race Between Bunker-Buster Bombs and High-Tech Concrete

High-Temperature Superconductivity Understood at Last

Michigan’s Bloodsucking Parasite Is Britain’s Royal Delicacy

The Big Bang should have made cracks in spacetime—why haven’t we found them?

ALICE pins down hypermatter properties

Rescue efforts underway for about 230 whales beached in Australia

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New Webb Image Captures Clearest View of Neptune’s Rings in Decades

How Vietnam’s Ancient Whale Temples Are Helping Science

The Maine lake full of sunken steamboats

New titanium alloy has highest specific strength of any 3D-printed metal

The Last Member of an Uncontacted Tribe

How Do Fireflies Flash in Sync? Studies Suggest a New Answer.

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When Big Tobacco Was Forced to Pay

Colonizing the Cosmos: Astor’s Electrical Future

InSight lander detects space rocks slamming into Mars

20 Quadrillion Ants Are Roaming Earth Right Now, Scientists Calculate

‘Extremely rare’ Rameses II-era burial cave found in Israel

Harvard and MIT Scientists Warn That James Webb Data May Not Be What It Seems

Earth’s First Continents Sank Into The Planet Before Rising Up Again

When Fossils Are Accidentally Dug Up, the Job Site Becomes a Science Lab

A drug that can kill antibiotic-resistant bacteria could stave off the coming superbug crisis

Researcher helps identify new evidence for habitability in ocean of Saturn’s moon Enceladus

Vintage photos of female samurai warriors posing with their katana swords, 1850-1900

The Earth’s Newest Secret: Fundamental Changes to What We Know About How Volcanoes Work

Decades before John F. Kennedy, another president’s death was shrouded in mystery

Swiss Government Scientist Says We May Be on the Brink of Discovering Alien Life

This Acrobatic Hunting Trick Is Straight Out of the Spider-Verse

China’s Yutu 2 rover is still alive on the moon’s far side

Inside the $100 Billion Mission to Modernize America’s Aging Nuclear Missiles

‘We Found a Secret Chevy Corvette EV Prototype Made by Motorola in the 1990s’

‘Aural tattoos’: sperm whales use sounds to signal social identity, say scientists

Could steam-powered cars decrease the CO2 in the atmosphere?