SCIENCE

Uber Drivers Helped Evacuate L.A. during Wildfires—But Were Left Unprotected

CLIMATEWIRE | James Jordan could work at almost any job in California and be protected by state rules that require…

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Los Angeles Fires Force Us to Confront Our Dystopian Present

January 24, 20254 min readWe’re Living in a Dystopian Climate Thriller. It's Time to Rewrite the EndingDecades of warnings went…

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Trump Declares Energy Emergency to Push Excess Fossil Fuel Production

January 21, 20254 min readTrump Declares Energy ‘Emergency’ to Justify More Oil and Gas DrillingThough largely symbolic, President Trump’s declaration…

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BMI Sidelined in New Obesity Definition That Favors Health Evaluation

Amid the rising buzz around Ozempic and similar weight-loss drugs, a group of 58 researchers is challenging the way obesity…

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Does Fact-Checking Work on Social Media?

January 15, 20254 min readDoes Fact-Checking Work? Here’s What the Science SaysCommunication and misinformation researchers reveal the value of fact-checking,…

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U.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears Arguments

January 10, 20253 min readU.S. TikTok Ban Looms as Supreme Court Hears ArgumentsTikTok is on the clock: ByteDance, the app’s…

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Katalin Karikó’s Nobel Prize–Winning Work on mRNA Was Long Ignored—And Led to COVID Vaccines

Katalin Karikó, a Hungarian-born biochemist, dedicated her life’s work to messenger RNA (mRNA), which she always believed had the potential…

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Biden Awards Three Climate Experts Nation’s Highest Science Honor

January 6, 20252 min readBiden Awards Three Climate Experts Nation’s Highest Science HonorRichard Alley, Lawrence Edwards and David Tilman were…

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Heliophysics Is Set to Shine in 2025

January 3, 20253 min readHeliophysics Is Set to Shine in 2025The science of the sun and its effects on the…

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Meet Pearl Young, Who ‘Raised Hell’ at NASA’s Predecessor

The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research.Thirteen years before any…

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