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outbreaks of Oropouche virus have flared up in the Amazon for decades, but historically the pathogen has little troubled the…
NASA has again postponed the return to Earth of Barry Wilmore and Sunita Williams, the astronauts stranded on the International…
In 2025, we might detect the first signs of life outside our solar system.Crucial to this potential breakthrough is the…
Editors of the environmental chemistry journal Chemosphere have posted an eye-catching correction to a study reporting that toxic flame retardants…
Slayman, the first pig kidney recipient, was eligible for a human kidney but would have likely waited six to seven…
every year, at the beginning of November, one of the most impressive natural spectacles in the world takes place in…
Normally, antibodies are protective proteins produced by our immune systems to fight bacteria or viruses. Their strength comes from their…
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The number of people who read for fun appears…
According to the United Nations, plastic production skyrocketed from 2 million metric tons in 1950 to about 400 million in…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.David Bessis was drawn to mathematics for the same reason that…