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19 Good News Science Stories to Savor This Summer From lifesaving cancer treatments and frog “spas” to a view of the cosmos from your own backyard, science can keep you going through the long, hot days of summer

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19 Good News Science Stories to Savor This Summer

From lifesaving cancer treatments and frog “spas” to a view of the cosmos from your own backyard, science can keep you going through the long, ...

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Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s Before Symptoms Appear Diagnosis of Alzheimer's, according to expert recommendations, can proceed by detecting the disease's underlying biology, even before the onset of cognitive decline

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Controversial New Guidelines Would Diagnose Alzheimer’s before Symptoms Appear

According to expert recommendations, the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s can proceed by detecting the disease’s underlying biology—even before the o...

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How the Olympics Are Saving Athletes from Heat Stress Climate change-driven heat endangers Olympians. Here’s how the Games are helping competitors cool down

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How the Olympics Are Saving Athletes from Heat Stress

Climate change-driven heat endangers Olympians. Here’s how the Games are helping competitors cool down

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Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Here’s Why It Matters The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use of the term species

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Dungeons & Dragons Is Shedding ‘Race’ in Gaming. Other Games, and Gamers, Should Follow

The nerd culture powerhouse is rebranding its elves, dwarfs and orcs, previously referred to as races, and moving towards use of the term species

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Tornado Scientists Love Twister and Twisters. Here’s Why Weather experts talk about why the film Twister is often such a favorite among tornado researchers and what they think of its new stand-alone sequel, Twisters

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Tornado Scientists Love Twister and Twisters. Here’s Why

Weather experts talk about why the film Twister is often such a favorite among tornado researchers and what they think of its new stand-alone seque...

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Farm Effort to Reduce Methane Emits a Different Climate-Warming Gas Scientists say efforts to tame methane in agriculture can spur the output of another greenhouse gas: nitrous oxide

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This Climate-Conscious Farming Practice Might Be Backfiring

Scientists say efforts to tame methane in agriculture can spur the output of another greenhouse gas: nitrous oxide

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Seventh Person ‘Cured’ of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus

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Seventh Person ‘Cured’ of HIV after Stem Cell Transplant

A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus

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Seventh Person ‘Cured’ of HIV After Stem Cell Transplant A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus

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Seventh Person ‘Cured’ of HIV after Stem Cell Transplant

A man in Germany is HIV-free after receiving stem cells that are not resistant to the virus

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The Supreme Court’s Contempt for History Promises a Worse Racial Future for U.S. The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement and Jim Crow is a dishonest ruse

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The Supreme Court’s Contempt for History Promises a Worse Racial Future for U.S.

The high court treating the children of a highly educated slice of the U.S. as equivalent to people who descended from the history of enslavement a...

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country's largest sources of the greenhouse gas

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Why Controlling Landfill Methane Is Key to Slowing Climate Change

The EPA plans to propose a rule in 2025 that will tackle methane emissions from landfills, one of the country

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Social Media Exploits our Evolutionary Desire for Information Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior can help us retake control

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Social Media Is Junk Food for Information Foragers

Social media exploits our evolved need for information, feeding us fluff and outright misinformation. A new science of human collective behavior ca...

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Combining Ayahuasca Compound with Drugs like Ozempic Could Help Treat Diabetes Researchers combined the drug harmine with a medication similar to Ozempic to boost the number and function of human insulin-producing cells transplanted into mice

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Combining Ayahuasca Compound with Drugs like Ozempic Could Help Treat Diabetes, Mouse Model Suggests

Researchers combined the drug harmine with a medication similar to Ozempic to boost the number and function of human insulin-producing cells transp...

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Musical Memories Don’t Fade with Age Eighty-year-olds are able to identify familiar tunes just as well as teenagers can

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Musical Memories Don’t Fade with Age

Eighty-year-olds are able to identify familiar tunes just as well as teenagers can

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NASA’s Perseverance Rover Discovers a Rock That May Contain Alien Microfossils Mysterious “leopard spots” on a Martian rock could be evidence of extraterrestrial life—or of mere lifeless chemistry. Finding out the truth may require bringing the rock back to Earth

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Signs of Ancient Alien Life May Lurk within This Newfound Martian Rock

Mysterious “leopard spots” on a Martian rock could be evidence of extraterrestrial life—or of mere lifeless chemistry. Finding out the truth ...

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Honeybees Defend Their Hive by Slapping Invading Ants Japanese honeybees use their wings to slap back ants trying to invade their hive

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Honeybees Will Literally Slap Ants That Try to Invade Their Hive

Japanese honeybees use their wings to slap back ants trying to invade their hive

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Komodo Dragons’ Nightmare Iron-Tipped Teeth Are a Reptilian First Reptile teeth have long been considered simple and cheap because the animals replace them regularly. That isn't so, Komodo dragons show

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Komodo Dragons’ Nightmare Iron-Tipped Teeth Are a Reptilian First

Reptile teeth have long been considered simple and cheap because the animals replace them regularly. That isn’t so, Komodo dragons show

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When Dogs Smell Your Stress, They Act Sad Dogs can smell when people are stressed, and it seems to make them feel downhearted

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Dogs Can Smell Your Stress, and It Seems to Make Them Sad

Dogs can smell when people are stressed, and it seems to make them feel downhearted

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First 'Cocaine Sharks' Discovered in Brazil Cocaine has been detected in sharks for the first time, but scientists aren’t sure of the impact

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Cocaine has been detected in sharks for the first time, but scientists aren’t sure of the impact