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Are we really falling short on protein—or is the high-protein craze overblown?

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There is no cure for the hantavirus that has so far sickened at least nine people and killed three of them on a cruise ship outbreak, but several therapies have shown promise in animal studies

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There is no hard evidence that ivermectin can treat cancer, but that hasn’t stopped people from trying it

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Makary, a face of Trump’s Make America Healthy Again agenda, oversaw the embattled agency as it dealt with vaping, abortion and other issues

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Probability theory and the Saint Petersburg paradox can help you determine whether the stakes of a game are too great

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This test flight comes at a pivotal moment for Elon Musk’s SpaceX as the company pushes to go public this year and show it’s ready for NASA’s planned 2027 Artemis III mission

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A multiyear effort to rename polycystic ovary syndrome finally revealed the condition’s new name: polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome

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For the last 1.7 million years, China’s Yangtze River has been stealing water from the Yellow River, new research shows

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Margaret Hamilton designed safety features for NASA inspired in part by her four-year-old

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NASA’s Mars rovers have found traces of minerals akin to those that make up precious gems on Earth. But their appearance and abundance on Mars is likely very different, experts say

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Researchers who study political violence say that the U.S. is in a period of more intense political rhetoric, but there have been far darker periods in the nation’s history

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The Trinity bomb test left behind a unique form of matter, and now, scientists have discovered a new chemical structure inside it

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The practice of “cloacal diving” could help remoras hide from predators—it could also be a feeding strategy or help the fish hitchhike

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Sled dogs have worked alongside humans for thousands of years. In the harsh Alaskan winter they remain the best option for traversing the snowy landscape

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Extra protein can be found in everything now, from potato chips to Pop-Tarts. Does this benefit the average eater?

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Several teams appeared to spend the second half of the U.S. professional basketball season losing games on purpose for a better chance at a high draft pick. New ideas propose to fix this incentive problem

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An oddity among exoplanets, L 98-59 d is (so far) in a class all its own, but astronomers expect powerful new telescopes will eventually reveal more like it

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NASA’s moon exploration plans call for nearly 80 launches, nearly 75 landers, 10 moon buggies and one nuclear reactor

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In an open letter, thousands of researchers criticized the White House’s firing of the research agency’s board as ‘an alarming attack’ on U.S. science

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A deadly hantavirus outbreak occurs on a cruise ship, scientists warn that microplastics may be contributing to climate warming, and a retreating-glacier‑triggered landslide unleashed a massive Alaska tsunami

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Some clinicians are pushing to broaden testosterone use, but there is debate about its benefits and risks

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Scientists long assumed Venus’s harsh environment would quickly destroy artifacts from probe missions. But a new study makes a compelling case to the contrary

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Here are some of the most fascinating facts about animal moms, from naked mole rats to giraffes and octopuses

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Mini models of the uterus lining give insight into mystery of how it is shed without scarring

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Universities that run the National Center for Atmospheric Research want to keep it from being dismantled

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Lindy Elkins-Tanton, principal investigator of NASA’s Psyche mission, explains in her new book how lessons from interplanetary exploration can help people solve problems together

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After decades of fighting for renewable energy, solar power is finally achieving economic dominance. But AI data centers threaten to consume those energy gains

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A fire covering at least five square miles burned through the exclusion zone around the site of the world’s worst nuclear disaster on Friday after two drones crashed into the area

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The Pentagon has started releasing files related to unidentified anomalous phenomena (UAP), also called UFOs. Here are the images released so far

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The Pentagon’s first UFO file release includes photographs, videos and documents gathered as part of an effort that spans several governmental offices and agencies, including the FBI, the White House and NASA

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The Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment will study nature’s most mysterious particle a mile beneath South Dakota’s Black Hills, and potentially reveal the origins of matter

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Virologist Jay Hooper is developing a vaccine for the rare rodent virus behind an outbreak on a cruise ship

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David Attenborough once directed programming at the BBC and has hosted numerous award-winning nature documentaries, but he’s always stayed down-to-earth, colleagues say

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The problem with Pluto isn’t its planetary or nonplanetary status—it’s our insistence on declaring the world must be one or the other

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As peptide “stacking” takes over social media feeds, we separate the science from the hype of the Internet’s latest wellness obsession

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AI models and people played “collaborative” Battleship to test strategies for efficiently solving problems

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The Centers for Research in Emerging Infectious Diseases were designed to study viruses that could jump from animals to people, including hantavirus, but in 2025 the National Institutes of Health said the work wouldn’t continue

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Stable rhythms of rest and activity are associated with healthier biological age markers, a new study suggests

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Haters' gonna hate, hate, hate, but Mars Curiosity rover Curiosity just keeps on groovin'—even if its handlers had to spend several days freeing its drill from a rock

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The latest studies bring the number of remains identified from this doomed 1845 expedition to six of the 129 who set out to the Arctic

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Peering into Earth’s climate past is getting ever more bizarre

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Statistical principles show you don’t need a nefarious plot to explain clusters of missing scientists and lab workers

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The tragic and fatal outbreak of hantavirus onboard a luxury cruise ship highlights the gaps in research and treatments for the rare and mysterious infection—including how the virus spreads among people

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Researchers say that President Donald Trump’s resurrection of widely maligned fitness testing in schools is “half-baked” and unlikely to move the needle on youth physical activity alone

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A new KFF poll found that voters aligned with the “Make America Healthy Again” movement consider the cost of health care as their top policy priority

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An almost unkillable fungal strain isolated from NASA’s ultrasterile clean rooms hints at “critical gaps” in interplanetary quarantine

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As the U.S. and Iran fight for dominance in the Strait of Hormuz, U.S. gas prices are continuing to rise—and production might not keep up

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The president had vowed to 'save vaping' on the campaign trail in 2024, but the decision is already drawing fire from anti-nicotine advocates and a bipartisan group of lawmakers

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A study of people who underwent surgery to treat epilepsy suggests the hippocampus may process words and speech when people are under general anesthesia, even though the study participants didn’t remember them

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Models giving dark matter more complex behavior could help solve multiple cosmic mysteries