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Comb Jelly with Two Butts Is Actually Two Individuals Fused Together Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

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‘Franken-Jelly’ with Two Butts Is Actually Two Individuals Fused Together

Two injured sea creatures merged to form a “Franken-jelly”

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How a Harris or Trump Presidency Could Affect Gun Policy Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump offer starkly different responses to gun violence

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How a Harris or Trump Presidency Could Affect Gun Policy

Vice President Kamala Harris and former president Donald Trump offer starkly different responses to gun violence

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Challenging Big Oil’s Big Lie about Plastic Recycling California’s lawsuit against Exxon is about ending the lie that most plastic is recyclable

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Challenging Big Oil’s Big Lie about Plastic Recycling

California’s lawsuit against Exxon is about ending the lie that most plastic is recyclable

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Hurricane Helene Signals the End of the ‘Climate Haven’ Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move

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Hurricane Helene Shows There Are No Climate Havens—But People Still Hope to Move to One

Experts say the effects of global warming are playing a greater role in where people decide to move

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Hurricane Helene Made Me a Climate Change Refugee A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

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I Wasn’t Prepared to Be a Climate Refugee

A climate advocate learns firsthand on the price of climate change in our lives, and calls for voters to head off future disasters

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How the 2024 Election Will Shape the Future of AI Both U.S. presidential candidates voice support for innovation in AI, but Kamala Harris has been more outspoken about its risks to individuals

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How the Next President Will Determine the Future of AI

Both U.S. presidential candidates voice support for innovation in AI, but Kamala Harris has been more outspoken about its risks to individuals

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In Floods like Hurricane Helene’s, Toxic Chemicals Are a Silent and Growing Threat People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when floods occur

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In Floods like Hurricane Helene’s, Toxic Chemicals Are a Silent and Growing Threat

People living near industrial facilities often have few details about the chemicals inside, which poses major risks when floods occur

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Hurricane Helene Survivors Face a Second Disaster—Insurance Woes Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments

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98 Percent of Households Flooded by Hurricane Helene Won’t Get Insurance Payouts

Only 2 percent of households in parts of Georgia, North Carolina and South Carolina that were flooded by Hurricane Helene can get insurance payments

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Where Did All the Thalidomide Pills Distributed in the U.S. Go? FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to approve thalidomide. But millions of pills had been sent to doctors in the U.S. for so-called clinical trials

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Where Did All the Thalidomide Pills Distributed in the U.S. Go?

FDA medical examiner Frances Oldham Kelsey saved American lives by refusing to approve thalidomide. But millions of pills had been sent to doctors ...

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How to Save the World from Apocalyptic Asteroids Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the first place

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Can Scientists Save the World from an Apocalyptic Asteroid Strike?

Sooner or later a doomsday asteroid will wipe out most life on Earth—unless, that is, we prevent threatening space rocks from hitting us in the f...

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Hard Nuclear Weapons Choices Await Harris or Trump as President Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia and Iran and decisions on a $2-trillion weapons-modernization effort

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The Tough Nuclear Deadline Looming over the Presidential Election

Whoever wins the 2024 presidential election will face heightened nuclear geopolitics, deadlines on nuclear deals with Russia and Iran and decisions...

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Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Fruit Fly’s Neurons in Exquisite Detail Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell

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Largest Brain Map Ever Reveals Fruit Fly’s Neurons in Exquisite Detail

Wiring diagram lays out connections between nearly 140,000 neurons and reveals new types of nerve cell

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Hurricanes Helene’s Floods Swamped a Hospital, Highlighting Climate Threats to Health Care Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change

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Helene Nearly Turned a Hospital into a Death Trap

Hurricane Helene forced dozens of medical facilities across the southern U.S. to evacuate patients, underscoring the human costs of climate change

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Hurricanes Kill People for Years after the Initial Disaster The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds

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Hurricanes Kill People for Years after the Initial Disaster

The average tropical cyclone in the U.S. ultimately causes about 7,000 to 11,000 excess deaths, new research finds

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Power-Thirsty AI Turns to Mothballed Nuclear Plants. Is That Safe? As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the unprecedented process

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Power-Thirsty AI Turns to Mothballed Nuclear Plants. Is That Safe?

As Microsoft strikes a deal to restart a reactor at Three Mile Island to power AI, nuclear specialists weigh in on the unprecedented process

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Suzetrigine Is Part of a New Class of Pain Medications That Could Offer Relief for Chronic Pain A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain.

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New Pain Medication Prevents Pain from Reaching the Brain

A new class of drugs treats pain at the periphery. Here’s what that could mean for those with chronic pain.

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Project 2025 Would Leave Hurricane Helene Survivors with Little Disaster Aid The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane Helene

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How Project 2025 Would Treat Hurricane Helene Survivors

The conservative Project 2025 playbook for a possible Trump presidency calls for cutting aid for disasters such as Hurricane Helene

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Sports Celebrate Physical Variation—Until It Challenges Social Norms Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

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Sports Celebrate Physical Variation—Until It Challenges Social Norms

Human anatomy is delightfully varied, but female athletes are heavily criticized for not conforming to socially accepted bodily norms

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NASA Needs a ‘Lunar Marathon’ to Match China on the Moon We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new strategies

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NASA Needs a ‘Lunar Marathon’ to Match China on the Moon

We are in a new and different kind of moon race, one the U.S. is losing. To win, says a former NASA official, we need new strategies

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First Observation of One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay Hints at Hidden Physics Physicists have detected a long-sought particle process that may suggest new forces and particles exist in the universe

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A One-in-10-Billion Particle Decay Hints at Hidden Physics

Physicists have detected a long-sought particle process that may suggest new forces and particles exist in the universe