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Rachel Feltman: For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. H5N1 bird flu has been making a lot of headlines since last year, and for good reason: since March 2024 this subtype of ...

A Denisovan skull has been identified for the first time. The find was based on proteins and calcified dental plaque ...

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NOAA’s Hurricane Hunter airplane missions significantly increase the accuracy of hurricane forecasts, but President Trump’s ...

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Gaia, Europe’s Milky Way–mapping spacecraft, shut down earlier this year. It was arguably the most important—and most ...

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Hundreds of trans people, activists and supporters rally outside of the Supreme Court of the United States in Washington, D.C ...