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RFK Jr. canceled nearly $500 million in mRNA vaccine research funding. Plus, the latest climate news, from flooding in Alaska ...
Science journalist Tom Zeller Jr. has suffered from debilitating cluster headaches for three decades. Like other cluster ...
But a new breakthrough points to lithium as a possible explanation—not only does it occur naturally in the brain, but a ...
In July 1925, physicist Werner Heisenberg wrote a letter to Wolfgang Pauli sharing his new ideas about what would eventually become known as quantum theory. A hundred years later, that theory has been ...
Underground fungal networks are crucial to life on Earth. But a new map shows that less than 10% of fungal hotspots are in ...
Fireflies' unique body chemistry has led to advances in medical imaging. And scientists are now learning how they communicate ...
Solar and wind power are almost too cheap for our economy,” says author Bill McKibben, arguing the switch from fossil fuels must happen soon.
Neurologist Bruce Dobkin started hearing a phantom choir singing on a loop after he received a cochlear implant. He’s not the ...
When ticks bite us, they release thousands of proteins through their saliva. Could a vaccine for the right ones stop ticks from latching on?
Car crashes aren’t very funny. Unless, apparently, it’s a self-driving car. Researchers on public perception of these new vehicles explain why.