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Pasteurization Kills Bird Flu Virus in Milk, New Studies Confirm Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy products safe from bird flu

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Pasteurized Milk Does Not Contain Live Bird Flu Virus, Studies Confirm

Flash pasteurization destroyed H5N1 viral particles that were highly concentrated in raw milk, confirming that standard techniques can keep dairy p...

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Vaccines Are the Safest Health Hack Vaccines are a cornerstone of a healthy immune system—and a healthy life

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Looking for the Best Health Hacks? Try Vaccines!

Vaccines are a cornerstone of a healthy immune system—and a healthy life

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A Retracted Stem Cell Study Reveals Science’s Shortcomings The withdrawal after 22 years of a controversial stem cell paper highlights how perverse incentives can distort scientific progress

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An Influential Study Retracted after 22 Years Reveals Challenges in Science

The withdrawal after 22 years of a controversial stem cell paper highlights how perverse incentives can distort scientific progress

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Why Hurricane Beryl Underwent Unprecedented Rapid Intensification Hurricane Beryl exploded in strength from a tropical depression to a Category 4 major hurricane unusually early in its development in part because of exceptionally warm ocean waters

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Meteorologists Have Never Seen Anything like Hurricane Beryl

Hurricane Beryl, the earliest Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, exploded in strength unusually early in its development, fueled by exceptionally wa...

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How the Supreme Court’s ‘Chevron Deference’ Ruling Could Remake the Energy Sector The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on “Chevron deference” could affect federal regulations of everything from power plant emissions to electric vehicles to transmission lines

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How a Landmark Supreme Court Decision Will Reshape the U.S. Energy Sector

The Supreme Court’s recent ruling on “Chevron deference” could affect federal regulations of everything from power plant emissions to electri...

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The Riemann Hypothesis, the Biggest Problem in Mathematics, Is a Step Closer to Being Solved Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years

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The Biggest Problem in Mathematics Is Finally a Step Closer to Being Solved

Number theorists have been trying to prove a conjecture about the distribution of prime numbers for more than 160 years

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More Climate Lawsuits Than Ever Are Trying to Hold Companies and Countries to Account At least 230 new climate cases were filed in 2023, but researchers noted the growth of such cases was slower than in prior years

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More Climate Lawsuits Than Ever Are Trying to Hold Companies and Countries to Account

At least 230 new climate cases were filed in 2023, but researchers noted the growth of such cases was slower than in prior years

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Are Pets Really Good for Health? It turns out there’s little good evidence that pets benefit our physical or mental health

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Pets Aren’t Necessarily as Good for People’s Health as We Think

It turns out there’s little good evidence that pets benefit our physical or mental health

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Fact-Checking the Presidential Candidates on Abortion, Drug Pricing and Immigration This year’s first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump featured clashes over insulin costs, inflation, abortion, immigration, and January 6

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Fact-Checking the Presidential Candidates on Abortion, Drug Pricing and Immigration

This year’s first presidential debate between President Joe Biden and former president Donald Trump featured clashes over insulin costs, inflatio...

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Societies with Little Money Are among the Happiest on Earth Wealth and well-being go together in many studies, but certain communities complicate this link

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Societies with Little Money Are among the Happiest on Earth

Wealth and well-being go together in many studies, but certain communities complicate this link

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Life Experiences May Shape the Activity of the Brain’s Cellular Powerhouses Mitochondria appear to ratchet up their activity when life is going well and tamp it down during hard times

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Life Experiences May Shape the Activity of the Brain’s Cellular Powerhouses

Mitochondria appear to ratchet up their activity when life is going well and tamp it down during hard times

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Family Files Claim against NASA after Space Junk Crashes into Florida Home Florida family files claim against NASA to compensate them after space debris crashed through their home in March

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Will NASA Pay Damages for Space Junk that Crashed into Florida Home?

Florida family files claim against NASA to compensate them after space debris crashed through their home in March

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SpaceX Wins $843-Million NASA Contract to Destroy the International Space Station The world will be watching—literally—as SpaceX tackles possibly what might be its highest-stakes endeavor to date: safely destroying the beloved International Space Station

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NASA and SpaceX Will Destroy the International Space Station. Here’s How

The world will be watching—literally—as SpaceX tackles possibly what might be its highest-stakes endeavor to date: safely destroying the belove...

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Supreme Court Allows Emergency Abortions in Idaho—For Now A Supreme Court decision allows emergency abortion care despite a state ban in Idaho while the case works its way through lower courts

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Supreme Court Allows Emergency Abortions in Idaho—For Now

A Supreme Court decision allows emergency abortion care despite a state ban in Idaho while the case works its way through lower courts

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JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Offer Astronomers the Universe’s Weirdest Puzzle The James Webb Space Telescope’s search for the earliest stars and black holes has yielded a very weird, very red, puzzle

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JWST’s ‘Little Red Dots’ Offer Astronomers the Universe’s Weirdest Puzzle

The James Webb Space Telescope’s search for the earliest stars and black holes has yielded a very weird, very red, puzzle

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The Pentagon’s Antivaccine Propaganda Endangered Public Health and Tarnished U.S. Credibility Amid the pandemic, the Pentagon ran a conspiracy campaign to discredit vaccines–just so it could score points against China. The revelation is a worst-case scenario for global public health

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The Pentagon

Amid the pandemic, the Pentagon ran a conspiracy campaign to discredit vaccines—just so it could score points against China. The revelation is a ...

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Boeing’s Starliner Leaves Astronauts Stuck but Safe in Space On its first crewed flight, troubling technical glitches with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft have left two astronauts in limbo onboard the International Space Station

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You Shouldn’t Be Worried about Astronauts Stuck in Space by Starliner. But Boeing Should Be

On its first crewed flight, troubling technical glitches with Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft have left two astronauts in limbo onboard the Interna...

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Biden’s New $1.8-Billion Transportation Package Stars Climate Projects Climate-related highway fixes and electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses are among the projects getting federal help in a new round of funding

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Biden’s New $1.8-Billion Transportation Package Stars Climate Projects

Climate-related highway fixes and electric and hydrogen fuel-cell buses are among the projects getting federal help in a new round of funding

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Extreme Wildfires Are Twice as Common as They Were 20 Years Ago Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity globally, data show for the first time

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Extreme Wildfires Are Twice as Common as They Were 20 Years Ago

Extreme wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity globally, data show for the first time

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Mars Sample Return Will Change How We See Life on Earth Despite an eye-watering price tag, bringing pieces of Mars back to Earth promises to revolutionize our understanding of life’s place in the early solar system

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Mars Sample Return Will Cost Billions of Dollars—But It’s Worth Every Penny

Despite an eye-watering price tag, bringing pieces of Mars back to Earth promises to revolutionize our understanding of life’s place in the early...