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Inside the CDC’s Breakdown—Legal Battles, Staff Exodus and Public Health Concerns

Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman.[CLIP: David Muir…

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Crystallized dino eggs provide a peek into the tumultuous Late Cretaceous

Crystals hidden inside dinosaur eggs at a famous fossil site are giving…

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Gravitational waves finally prove Stephen Hawking’s black hole theorem

Illustration of two black holes merging and sending gravitational waves across the…

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How Big Can a Black Hole Get?

In the early 1960s astronomers discovered a monster.Something in the constellation of…

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Even in our digital world, materials still matter

Shutterstock/JavierLizarazo These days, our lives revolve around the digital world. Money, culture,…

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Autism Has No Single Cause, Research Shows

Soon after psychiatrist Leo Kanner first identified autism in the 1940s, he…

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Antibody cocktail could work as a universal flu treatment

Illustration of antibodies attacking influenza virus particlesScience Photo Library/Alamy A cocktail of…

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Best-Yet Measurement of Merging Black Holes Confirms Einstein, Hawking and the ‘No Hair’ Theorem

September 10, 20255 min readNew Black Hole Measurements Show More Ways Stephen…

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DNA cassette tape can store every song ever recorded

The DNA cassette resembles music cassette tapesJiankai Li et al. 2025 Retro…

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