The solar system’s newest visitor, 3I/ATLAS, may be 3 billion years older than the sun and its planets. First discovered
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Expelling toxic “forever chemicals” from the body may take guts — or at least, their microbes. Some microbes found in
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McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s degree in neuroscience from
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A millennium-long story about Greenland is written in the genes of the island’s sled dogs. A new genomic analysis, published July
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An army of treelike creatures called Ents marches to war in the second The Lord of the Rings movie, The
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In a remote desert, scientists have discovered one of Earth’s oldest asteroid impacts. It dates to well over a billion
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H5N1 bird flu isn’t going away. In fact, the virus continues to spin off new versions that outcompete their predecessors,
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An underwater gold rush may be on the horizon — or rather, a rush to mine the seafloor for manganese,
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U.S. diets should include more of vitamins D and E, fiber, calcium and magnesium — all are essential nutrients that
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A chatbot might not break a sweat every time you ask it to make your shopping list or come up
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