SCIENCE
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This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry
This Butterfly’s Epic Migration Is Written into Its Chemistry Painted ladies travel the globe every year on massive journeys—including across…
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Noninvasive Prenatal Blood Testing Finds Cancer in Some Pregnant People
Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. For more than a decade noninvasive prenatal blood testing, or…
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String Theorists Say Black Holes Are Multidimensional String ‘Supermazes’
Black Holes May Be ‘Supermazes’ of Many-Dimensional Strings Physicists think the insides of black holes may be complex mazes of…
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Does Intermittent Fasting Improve Health Beyond Weight Loss?
As anyone seeking to lose weight knows, diets come in and out of fashion. The Sexy Pineapple diet, launched by…
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The U.S. Government’s Top UFO Scientist Has an Open Mind about Alien Visitation
Whether captured in declassified military footage or in smartphone videos uploaded to social media, UFOs are swarming Earth’s skies and…
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Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away
Stunning Antarctic Sea Creatures Discovered after Iceberg Breaks Away A calving iceberg exposed a region that never before had been…
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What Severance Life Would Really Be Like, According to a Psychologist
Editor’s Note: This story contains spoilers for season two of the TV show Severance. You arrive at work. You shed…
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Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’
Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’ Charged water droplets generate sparks that can forge organic compounds By…
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One in Three U.S. Bird Species Are Struggling and Need Conservation Support
Birds Are in Trouble across the U.S. But It’s Not Too Late to Protect Them In the U.S. 42 species…
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Measles Misinformation Sparks Concern, Supreme Court Limits EPA Power, and Scientists Create Woolly Mice
Measles Misinformation Sparks Concern, Supreme Court Weakens EPA, and Scientists Engineer Woolly Mice In this week’s news roundup, we dig…
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