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Karen Short, a research ecologist with the Forest Service who contributed to the study and maintains a historical database of…
As avian influenza rages through birds and dairy cattle across the United States, Georgia has become the latest state to…
As the rate of humanity’s data creation increases exponentially with the rise of AI, scientists have been interested in DNA…
But that wasn’t obvious. They’d have to analyze a special set of functions, called Type I and Type II sums,…
In the summer of 2020, 15 recognized leaders in US public health gathered to author an article in The Lancet—one…
Observing the planets is one of the most awe-inspiring ways to witness the magic of the night sky—and there’s no…
On his first day in office, President Trump has signed a slew of executive orders that will set the United…
Fire has always shaped the landscape in California. But today it burns hotter, more frequently, and spreads farther than ever…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In 2024, superconductivity—the flow of electric current with zero resistance—was discovered…
This story originally appeared on Mother Jones and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As wildfires continue to burn all…