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It's been the summer of no salads, but could lettuce return to the menu just in time for back-to-school? An outbreak of a parasite-borne illness tied to iceberg lettuce has sickened thousands, but new data suggest infections may finally be tapering
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Social media was abuzz with videos of a tornado that hit near New York City. Twisters aren't common area in this area, but they can--and do--happen. Here's how.
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This El Nino, which has already set records this summer, could be among the largest in living memory, perhaps even the strongest since the 19th century. That will mean major weather disruptions around the world and another record hot year or two.
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This week New York City reported its first human case of West Nile virus for the year, and hundreds of people across the U.S. have been sickened with the illness in 2026. What is the virus, and how do you prevent it?
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Calling a rocky exoplanet “Earth-like” is like saying you’re a near clone of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury just because you’re a man with a mustache who can carry a tune. In either case, the claim probably isn’t true.
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The mathematical reality of a $40 trillion national debt is unfathomable.
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"You don’t want to trade one crisis for another.” China is the world leader in solar power, but the country’s policies could be harming biodiversity, a new analysis finds
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Growing crystals “like alchemy,” researchers plotted out the ideal site within the lattice to build a nuclear clock
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Europe is on fire. It is going to get so, so much worse.
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If you didn’t already dislike power-hungry data centers popping up on Earth, just wait till you see what they could do to the night sky. A new study suggests proposed megaconstellations of orbital data centers could outnumber the visible stars and blot out
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On Earth, life may have emerged not once, but twice. A new study pinpoints ancient genetic differences between our planet’s earliest organisms, bacteria and archaea, which hint at a common origin from a single, deep-sea source that was itself not yet truly
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A mission launching this weekend could radically reshape the U.S.-China space race to build bases on the moon. China’s Chang’e-7 will be the first spacecraft to land at the moon’s south pole, where it will search for a precious resource: water.
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Testosterone is having a moment��and not just with men. But does the hormone live up to the antiaging and “looks maxxing” hype? And if so, should you take it?
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What really happened on Easter Island?

For decades, an influential theory blamed the Rapanui people for their own downfall—a story made famous by Jared Diamond’s book "Collapse."

New evidence tells a different tale.
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The space agency’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory, which studied cataclysmic cosmic explosions, is expected to burn up in Earth’s atmosphere later this year
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A combined drug made by pharma giants Merck and Moderna uses mRNA technology—the same tech as the COVID vaccines—to target a deadly and common form of skin cancer
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Microbes on the moon? A new study finds that five microorganisms could survive on the lunar surface, posing a risk to future crewed missions such as NASA’s Artemis program
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The star S301 swoops so close to our galaxy’s supermassive black hole that it could, for the first time ever, reveal that dark behemoth’s rotation
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China just successfully landed a reusable rocket, the Zhuque-3. The feat puts Chinese startup LandSpace in league with SpaceX and Blue Origin—and shows how close China is with the U.S. in the new space race
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Super agers are people who live extraordinarily long lives. The key may lie in their immune systems
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