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1 in 4 Unresponsive People with Brain Injuries May Be Conscious More people than we thought who are in comas or similar states can hear what is happening around them, a study shows.

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1 in 4 Unresponsive People with Brain Injuries May Be Conscious

More people than we thought who are in comas or similar states can hear what is happening around them, a study shows

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The WHO Declared Mpox a Global Health Emergency. Here's Where the Virus Is Spreading and What Vaccines and Treatments Exist A new type of mpox has infected thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries, but vaccines and treatments are hard to come by

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Mpox is a Global Public Health Emergency. What Does That Mean?

A new type of mpox has infected thousands in the Democratic Republic of the Congo and other African countries, but vaccines and treatments are hard...

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How to See Sunspots with Your Own Eyes Surging solar activity means enormous sunspots are in the space-weather forecast. Here’s how to view them safely

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How to See Sunspots with Your Own Eyes

Surging solar activity means enormous sunspots are in the space-weather forecast. Here’s how to view them safely

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Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Came from beyond Jupiter New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction

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The Dinosaurs Had Even Worse Luck Than Scientists Imagined

New evidence points to a carbonaceous asteroid from the outer solar system as the culprit for Earth’s most recent mass extinction

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Ants Bite Off Each Other's Limbs to Save Them from Deadly Infections Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them

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Ants Bite Off Each Other

Carpenter ants carry out lifesaving amputations on their colony siblings to save them

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Postal Service Ignoring Heat Risks to Mail Carriers, Investigation Finds Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agency was accused of falsifying heat-training records

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Postal Service Ignoring Heat Risks to Mail Carriers, Investigation Finds

Internal records show the U.S. Postal Service has tried to get workers out of air-conditioned offices. The allegations come one year after the agen...

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics

A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics

A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

Scientific American 1 year ago

Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

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Three of the Strangest Paradoxes in Mathematics

A barber shaves all men who don’t shave themselves. Does he shave himself? Mathematics offers explanations for this and other curious contradictions

Scientific American 1 year ago

Google’s Project Green Light Uses AI to Take on City Traffic A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet

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Can Google Make Stoplights Smarter?

A Google experiment to improve stoplights shows early positive results. But AI-assisted software won’t replace human traffic engineers just yet

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Brain-to-Speech Tech Good Enough for Everyday Use Debuts in a Man with ALS A highly robust brain-computer interface boasts low error rates and a durability that allows a user to talk all day long

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Brain-to-Speech Tech Good Enough for Everyday Use Debuts in a Man with ALS

A highly robust brain-computer interface boasts low error rates and a durability that allows a user to talk all day long

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Cleaned Up Shipping Emissions Have Revealed Additional Global Warming New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s climate

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Cleaned Up Shipping Emissions Have Revealed Additional Global Warming

New shipping regulations set limits on sulfur in maritime fuel, reducing harmful pollution but inadvertently ceasing a cooling effect on Earth’s ...

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth's Poles Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet's polar regions

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth

Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth's Poles Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet's polar regions

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth

Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth's Poles Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet's polar regions

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SpaceX Set to Launch First-Ever Crew over Earth

Launching in late 2024, the Fram2 mission will be the first human spaceflight to explore the planet

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Stonehenge’s Strangest Rock Came from 500 Miles Away A new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulder

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Stonehenge’s Strangest Rock Came from 500 Miles Away

A new analysis of Stonehenge’s “Altar Stone” suggests Neolithic people walked or sailed some 500 miles to transport the six-ton boulder

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Meet Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ Moon and the Intriguing Ocean It May Hide The possibility of liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas may offer clues to how such seas form, and another spot to search for life

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Meet Saturn’s ‘Death Star’ Moon and the Intriguing Ocean It May Hide

The possibility of liquid water beneath the surface of Saturn’s moon Mimas may offer clues to how such seas form, and another spot to search for ...

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Hurricane Prediction Relies on the Tricky Art of Identifying Which Storms Will Grow New techniques are helping forecasters spot storms that could develop into dangerous hurricanes earlier than ever

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Will This Storm Become a Hurricane? Here’s How Meteorologists Tell

New techniques are helping forecasters spot storms that could develop into dangerous hurricanes earlier than ever

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U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year Two renewable resources, wind and solar, together have produced more power than coal through July—a first for the U.S.

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U.S. Wind and Solar Are on Track to Overtake Coal This Year

Two renewable resources, wind and solar, together have produced more power than coal through July—a first for the U.S.

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Dodgy Critical Mineral Designations Won’t Boost Clean Energy Congress appears interested in passing mining legislation. But bills that would expand access to hard-rock minerals across the U.S. ignore supply chain standards and environmental consequences

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Dodgy Critical Mineral Designations Won’t Boost Clean Energy

Congress appears interested in passing mining legislation. But bills that would expand access to hard-rock minerals across the U.S. ignore supply c...