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Biden Pledges Huge Climate Emissions Cuts He Can’t Enforce. Here’s Why It Still Matters

CLIMATEWIRE | President Joe Biden announced Thursday that he will strengthen the United States’ climate target by aiming to cut…

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Ferns’ ‘Backward’ Evolution Reveals Life’s Meandering Path

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Imagine a photograph of…

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Luigi Mangione’s Alleged Ghost Gun and Other Antisurveillance Tech, Explained

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, allegedly took…

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How the Franklin Fire in Malibu Is Being Stoked by the Santa Ana Winds

December 10, 20243 min readHow the Santa Ana Winds Are Stoking the Malibu FireDry weather and an extreme Santa Ana…

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Wuhan Lab Sequences Reveal No Close COVID Relatives, Virologist Says

December 6, 20243 min readWuhan Virologist Says Lab Has No Close Relatives to COVID VirusShi Zhengli, the virologist at the center of…

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Hawaiian Crows Return to the Wild, Where They Are ‘Guides to Souls’

In Hawaiian tradition, the souls of the dead journey to the afterlife by jumping from cliffside promontories called “leaping places”…

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Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths

November 29, 20245 min readMath and Physics Can't Prove All TruthsPhysicists have described a system that requires an incomputable number…

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Fossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within Hours

November 28, 20243 min readFossil Footprints Suggest Two Early Human Species Crossed Paths within HoursTwo sets of fossilized footprints from…

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RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees the CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health

Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week by catching…

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Scientists Scramble to Save Climate Data from Trump—Again

CLIMATEWIRE | Eight years ago, as the Trump administration was getting ready to take office for the first time, mathematician…

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