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4 answers to key questions about the monkeypox outbreak
An outbreak of monkeypox has some people worried that the world is on the brink of another pandemic. That’s not…
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Where Gun Stores Open, Gun Homicides Increase
Editor’s Note (5/25/22): This article is being republished in the wake of a school shooting in Uvalde, Tex., that killed…
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Soft robots: Pasta-shaped device with no moving parts can navigate through mazes
A soft robot made from a twist of rubber can harvest heat energy and use it to roll across a…
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What Is Dietary Fat? , Live Science
Dietary fat is one of the three macronutrients that make up the bulk of our diets. Alongside protein and carbohydrates,…
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A century ago, Alexander Friedmann envisioned the universe’s expansion
For millennia, the universe did a pretty good job of keeping its secrets from science. Ancient Greeks thought the universe…
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Your Phone Could be Used to Prosecute For Getting an Abortion. Here’s how.
Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data. — Read more on…
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Stonehenge: People who built the monument may have eaten raw cattle organs
By Corryn Wetzel Human fossilised faeces from Durrington Walls, England Lisa-Marie Shillito The people who built Stonehenge probably ate cattle…
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Famous ‘alien’ Wow! signal may have come from distant, sunlike star
Researchers may have pinpointed the source of a famous supposed alien broadcast discovered nearly a half century ago. The prominent…
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A Denisovan girl’s fossil tooth may have been unearthed in Laos
A molar tooth from Southeast Asia probably belonged to a member of a cryptic group of Stone Age hominids called…
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Climate Change Doubled the Likelihood of Devastating South African Floods
CLIMATEWIRE , Parts of South Africa are still reeling nearly a month after heavy rains and catastrophic floods wracked the…
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