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The American Medical Association is launching an effort to evaluate vaccine safety and effectiveness independently of U.S. government health agencies

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If a pulsar that may lie at the center of our galaxy is confirmed, it could enable more precise measurements of the spacetime around the Milky Way’s central supermassive black hole

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An experiment to quantify the amount of the universe’s lightest element in Earth’s core suggests that the planet’s water has mostly been here since the beginning

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The rocks used in the Olympic sport of curling come from one island in Scotland and one quarry in Wales. What makes them so special?

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Physicists cannot access anything that existed before the start of time and space, but they have theories

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A Roman stone board game has been unplayable since its discovery more than a century ago, but AI might have just worked out the rules

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While it’s been a frigid winter in the eastern U.S., the western region of the country has seen record warmth

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A new study suggests that people with obesity have higher rates of mortality and hospitalization from a variety of infections from viruses, fungi, parasites and bacteria

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Frustrated by AI industry claims of proving math results without transparency, a team of leading academics has proposed a better way

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Bad Bunny performed part of the Super Bowl halftime show from a powerline set, drawing attention to the problem of widespread blackouts in Puerto Rico

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SpaceX’s decision to focus on establishing a lunar city ahead of building a Mars colony represents a significant shift in Elon Musk’s space exploration ambitions

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How do figure skaters like Ilia Malinin keep landing harder and harder jumps?

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A new proof solves a long-standing problem about the doughnut-shaped torus

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Earthquake swarms can supercharge microbial growth

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Humans might have been sailing the sea between Greenland and Canada as long as it’s been unfrozen, archaeological evidence suggests

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Babies show innate rhythm as NASA’s Artemis II mission hits delays, a major solar flare erupts and concerns grow over PFAS “forever chemicals”

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Auroras, shimmering bands of light that shoot through the night sky near the Earth’s poles, can follow patterns known as arcs

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Prime numbers have fascinated humankind for generations—here are three of the most intriguing primes

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For almost two decades, scientists have debated whether sponges or comb jellies are the first animal lineage. Now some are calling for a more harmonious approach.

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The decorated Olympic skier has had numerous injuries and a partial knee replacement but still plans to go for the gold at the 2026 Winter Olympics

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Watching sporting events like the Super Bowl can influence our brains and bodies—and not always in a good way

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Preliminary studies suggest that a high-fat, low-carbohydrate diet could reduce schizophrenia symptoms in some people, but claiming it’s a cure is misleading, experts say

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The upcoming drugs CagriSema and retatrutide target multiple gut hormones and could cause twice as much weight loss than current treatments. But experts wonder how much is too much

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Many different bird species have been affiliated with the Seattle Seahawks’ mascot, but none is technically a “seahawk”

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From vegetation scans to 360-degree smoke detectors, new tools are trying to shine a light on the most dangerously dark areas of the electric grid

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After 25 years, Brookhaven National Laboratory’s Relativistic Heavy Ion Collider—the U.S.’s largest particle collider—has ceased operations, but its science lives on

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Why psychiatry’s diagnostic system may undergo major changes, and what the scientific debates over how mental illnesses should be defined are

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A new study suggests king cobras may be accidentally boarding trains across India

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You might think galaxies can’t ever find each other in our runaway cosmos, but it turns out gravity can sometimes overcome even the stretching of space itself

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The South Carolina measles outbreak has triggered rare but serious brain swelling in some children

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Jeffrey Epstein aggressively sought access to publishers, mentions of Scientific American and other media in Department of Justice files show

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This famous ape may have understood pretend actions—suggesting he had the capacity to imagine

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When a young Katharine Burr Blodgett joined future Nobel Prize winner Irving Langmuir at the General Electric Company’s industrial research laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y, it was the start of her brilliant career

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Scientists have spent decades searching for the final resting place of Luna 9, the first spacecraft to soft-land on the moon. Now they’re on the cusp of finding it

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Data centers are eating up computing resources and pushing chipmakers toward AI-grade memory, tightening supply for Nintendo and other hardware makers

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Researchers have found what might be a little red dot transitioning into its final state, where x-rays burst through its gas cocoon. Others argue the object is nothing special

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More than one-third of cancer cases are preventable, a massive study finds

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A new study shows that blood collected on a sanitary pad can be used for cervical cancer screening, opening the door to new diagnostics

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Astronauts are flying to the moon for the first time since 1972, and scientists are preparing specialized space suits for the next milestone—landing there

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Boys are more likely to be diagnosed as autistic as children—but by adulthood, that trend changes, according to a new study in Sweden

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Scientists have found “strange quarks” that originated as virtual particles that sprang from nothing

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Lung cancer tumor cells in mice communicate with the brain, sending signals to deactivate the body’s immune response, a study finds

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If an incoming asteroid hits the moon, it will be visible from Earth, according to a new study

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NASA quietly updated its potential launch windows for its delayed moon mission. The agency is apparently now targeting March 6 to 11

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As temperatures plunged across the eastern U.S., a breathtaking cloud pattern took shape off the coasts of Florida

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An “extraordinary” brain network discovery shows that Parkinson’s disease may not be a movement disorder after all

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It turns out that continental breakups are just as messy as human ones, with the events leaving fragments scattered far from home

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Dating to only a billion years after the big bang, JADES-ID1 may be the earliest, most distant galaxy protocluster astronomers have ever seen

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For those with retrograde cricopharyngeus dysfunction, daily life can be miserable, with symptoms such as bloating and chest pain. But a simple Botox injection can help

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As Earth’s temperature rises, fewer places will be suitable for hosting the Winter Olympics