Our planet has experienced dramatic climate shifts throughout its history, oscillating between freezing “icehouse” periods and warm “greenhouse” states.
Scientists have long linked these climate changes to fluctuations in atmospheric carbon…
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Watch three solar prominences erupt in epic video
The sun’s rhythmic rise and fall in the sky can make it easy to forget that our star is unpredictable—a roiling, burbling mass of magnetically knotted plasma that governs the entire solar system. But a new video from the European Space…
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Language learning marketplace Preply’s unicorn status embodies Ukrainian resilience
Language learning marketplace Preply is now valued at $1.2 billion after raising a $150 million Series D round that marks a new chapter for the 14-year-old company, whose previous backers include Horizon Capital, Hoxton Ventures, Owl Ventures…
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How North Carolina erased medical debt for 2.5 million people : NPR
North Carolina Gov. Josh Stein (center), flanked by the state’s health secretary, Dr. Dev Sangvai (left) and an executive…
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Africa Is Breaking Apart and a New Ocean Is Forming Faster Than Scientists Ever Predicted
A major tectonic divergence in East Africa is progressing more rapidly than earlier models projected, intensifying scientific efforts to monitor what could become the Earth’s next ocean basin. The East African Rift System, a geologic…
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Scientists reveal the impact of air pollution on the human body
I grew up in rural Colorado, deep in the mountains, and I can still remember the first time I…
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The U.S. is fighting another measles outbreak. This time in South Carolina
South Carolina is fighting a new, fast-growing outbreak of the measles, as concern grows that the U.S. is poised to lose its measles elimination status.
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US measles epidemic grows with South Carolina outbreak
The measles epidemic continues to spread in the United States, with an outbreak in the southeastern state of South Carolina growing to more than 600 cases, authorities said Tuesday.
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Analyzing bacterial enzymes in pikromycin synthesis
Macrolides are an important class of antibiotics that includes drugs such as azithromycin and erythromycin, which are widely used to treat a range of infections, including pneumonia and skin infections.
A defining feature of their…
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Sculpting complex, 3D nanostructures with a focused ion beam
Scientists have developed a new way to fabricate three-dimensional nanoscale devices from single-crystal materials using a focused ion beam instrument. The group used this new method to carve helical-shaped devices from a topological magnet…
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