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Wealthier Members of Congress Have Family Links to Slavery U.S. Senators and Representatives whose family had a history of enslaving others have greater present-day wealth

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Wealthier Members of Congress Have Family Links to Slavery

U.S. Senators and Representatives whose family had a history of enslaving others have greater present-day wealth

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the condition

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies

Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the ...

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the condition

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies

Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the ...

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the condition

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Solving Inflammatory Bowel Disease’s Mysteries May Lead to New Therapies

Understanding genetics, immunology and the microbiomes of people with inflammatory bowel disease could aid in finding the right treatments for the ...

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How Are These Mineral Deposits Producing Oxygen from the Ocean Floor? Polymetallic blobs are producing “dark oxygen” from the depths of the ocean—and no one knows exactly how.

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Metal-Rich Ocean Deposits Produce ‘Dark Oxygen’

Polymetallic blobs are producing “dark oxygen” from the depths of the ocean—and no one knows exactly how.

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Europe's JUICE Jupiter Probe Zooms past the Moon in Historic Flyby The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft took a shortcut to the giant planet by way of the Earth and the moon

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The Jupiter Icy Moons Explorer spacecraft took a shortcut to the giant planet by way of the Earth and the moon

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Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside many of Texas’s 100 prison buildings can exceed 110 degrees Fahrenheit

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Without AC, Texan Prisons Sentence People to Unsafe Heat

Air-conditioning is uncommon for incarcerated people, and the heat index inside many of Texas’s 100 prison buildings can exceed 110 degrees Fahre...

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Can Thousands of Huge Machines Capture Enough Carbon to Slow Climate Change? Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of the atmosphere. Can it save the warming world?

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Can Thousands of Huge Carbon Capture Machines Save the Warming World?

Tech firms, oil companies and the U.S. government are investing billions of dollars in carbon capture technology to suck greenhouse gases out of th...

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Trump's Weird Debate Strategies Come From Creationist Tactics A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics

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A dishonest creationist debating tactic shouldn’t go unchallenged in American life. Or in national politics

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How the Harris-Walz and Trump-Vance Health Policy Records Compare As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice presidential nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz together are raising the prominence of health care as a 2024 election issue

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How the Vice Presidential Candidates Compare on Health Care

As Democrats convene in Chicago to make official their presidential and vice presidential nominees, Vice President Kamala Harris and Minnesota Gov....

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New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases

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New Satellite Will Track Methane Super Emitters

Tanager-1 is the first in a series of satellites that aim to pinpoint major emitters of carbon dioxide and methane, major greenhouse gases

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Bird Flu Is Infecting Pet Cats. Here’s What You Need to Know As bird flu spreads in cats, cows and other animals, it has more opportunity to adapt to easily infect humans

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Bird Flu Is Infecting Pet Cats. Here’s What You Need to Know

As bird flu spreads in cats, cows and other animals, it has more opportunity to adapt to easily infect humans

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How Food Banks Prevent Climate Change by Averting Carbon Emissions Redistributing food to food banks before it’s tossed or wasted doesn’t just fight hunger—such efforts also fight climate change

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How Food Banks Prevented 1.8 Million Metric Tons of Carbon Emissions Last Year

Redistributing food to food banks before it’s tossed or wasted doesn’t just fight hunger—such efforts also fight climate change

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1 in 4 Unresponsive People with Brain Injuries May Be Conscious More people than we thought who are in comas or similar states can hear what is happening around them, a study shows.

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1 in 4 Unresponsive People with Brain Injuries May Be Conscious

More people than we thought who are in comas or similar states can hear what is happening around them, a study shows

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The WHO Declared Mpox a Global Health Emergency. Here's Where the Virus Is Spreading and What Vaccines and Treatments Exist A new type of mpox has infected thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries, but vaccines and treatments are hard to come by

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Mpox is a Global Public Health Emergency. What Does That Mean?

A new type of mpox has infected thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries, but vaccines and treatments are hard...

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How to See Sunspots with Your Own Eyes Surging solar activity means enormous sunspots are in the space-weather forecast. Here’s how to view them safely

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How to See Sunspots with Your Own Eyes

Surging solar activity means enormous sunspots are in the space-weather forecast. Here’s how to view them safely

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Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Came from beyond Jupiter New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction

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The Dinosaurs Had Even Worse Luck Than Scientists Imagined

New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction

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Ants Bite Off Each Other's Limbs to Save Them from Deadly Infections Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them

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Ants Bite Off Each Other

Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them

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Postal Service Ignoring Heat Risks to Mail Carriers, Investigation Finds Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records

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Postal Service Ignoring Heat Risks to Mail Carriers, Investigation Finds

Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agen...

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics

A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions