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Measles Death Shows How Virus Can Hide in the Brain for Years

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Scientists made a biological quantum bit out of a fluorescent protein

Researchers could use quantum effects to develop new types of medical imaging…

Jaguar breaks records by swimming at least 1.3 kilometres

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Forensic Expert Explains How 3D Laser Scanning Could Reconstruct the Charlie Kirk Shooting

Charlie Kirk, 31-year-old founder of the conservative nonprofit organization Turning Point USA,…

Recycled glass could help fend off coastal erosion

In the 1960s, saltwater intrusion in a southeast Louisiana swamp killed the…

Hedonistic habits could turn you into a mosquito magnet

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NASA’s JWST Hunts Dark Matter in Stunning Image of Bullet Cluster

For astronomers studying dark matter, the Bullet Cluster is one of the…

Future Martians will need to breathe. It won’t be easy

Asteroid impacts, microbes, mining: These are a few tactics engineers might one…

A weird cloud forms on Mars each year and now we know why

Unusual clouds form over the Martian volcano Arsia Mons each yearESA/DLR/FU Berlin/J.…