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How to Spot ADHD Misinformation on TikTok

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Life on Earth May Have Been Jump-Started by ‘Microlightning’

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Trump EPA Unveils Aggressive Plans to Dismantle Climate Regulation, Endangerment Finding

CLIMATEWIRE | EPA on Wednesday announced it was walking away from virtually every important climate policy on the books, charting an aggressive course on deregulation

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9 Unsolved Mysteries in Mathematics

Mathematicians sometimes think of their research as a garden and unsolved problems as seeds waiting to sprout. Some problems are analogous to tulip bulbs. As

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Trump’s FEMA Disaster Aid Freeze Threatens ‘Acute Harm,’ Judge Rules

FEMA Disaster Aid Freeze Threatens ‘Acute Harm,’ Judge Rules The Federal Emergency Management Agency must show in one week whether it is complying with a

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Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a ‘Woolly Mouse’

The biotech company Colossal Biosciences has long aspired to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, which roamed the Northern Hemisphere thousands of years ago, during

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Interjections Are, Uh, More Important than We Thought

Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words — mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like

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Trump Firings and Funding Freezes Leave Western States Scrambling to Prepare for Wildfire Season

CLIMATEWIRE | Lawmakers and officials from Western states are warning that President Donald Trump’s firings and funding freezes will leave the region woefully unprepared for

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Texas Measles Outbreak Nears 100 Cases, Raising Concerns About Undetected Spread

Some private schools have shut down because of a rapidly escalating measles outbreak in West Texas. Local health departments are overstretched, pausing other important work

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Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical

February 20, 2025 3 min read Microsoft Claims Quantum-Computing Breakthrough—but Some Physicists Are Skeptical With its ‘topological’ quantum computers, Microsoft aims to reach useful scales