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Coach's death spotlights pharma's profit wins in chemo drug shortage

The death of a Milwaukee high school football coach has drawn attention to national drug shortages, as his family speaks out about their inability to...

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Attempted TikTok heist by Congress just proves our data is safer with China than the NSA

Among the generation most needed at the polls for a win, it’s common knowledge that voting for President Joseph Robinette Biden is basically like...

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Lemony smoke-it: Citrus-scented weed may make you less paranoid, scientists report

Ah, the duality of pot. It relaxes you, but sometimes makes you more anxious instead? What gives? If your trips to the cannabis dispensary have you...

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NASA is officially headed to Saturn moon as it greenlights $3.35 billion space rotocraft mission

It's scientifically ambitious. It's aeronautically daring. And it's unflinchingly expensive. It's NASA's newly approved mission to Saturn's moon,...

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Grindr again sued for allegedly sharing users' HIV status

More than 650 claimants in the United Kingdom are suing Grindr, alleging the world's most popular LGBTQ dating app broke national privacy laws by...

22.04.2024 5

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Crisis of consciousness: Christof Koch on abortion, AI and the reality in your head

For the average person, any explanation about philosophers and physicists warring over the nature of consciousness — no matter how colorfully...

21.04.2024 8

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Unexpected black hole discovery is the most massive stellar object of its kind in our galaxy

The biggest stellar black hole ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy has just been discovered by a collaboration of astronomers — and it's the...

17.04.2024 30

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Mongeese are some of the only animals that go to war. Scientists could soon find out why

She’s the authoritarian matriarchal warlord with a fart so powerful it strikes terror in the heart of honey badgers. She rolls with a posse that’s...

15.04.2024 7

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For the first time since 1972 someone's landing on the Moon — and they aren't an American

For the first time since 1972, an astronaut is expected to set foot on the Moon — and for the first time in history, that astronaut isn't an...

12.04.2024 10

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Rebooting digital equality: FCC to restore net neutrality, reversing Trump-era repeal

On April 26, the Federal Communications Commission will vote to restore landmark rules governing net neutrality — a federal policy with a history...

04.04.2024 30

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Moon standard time: White House instructs NASA to create lunar time zones

On Tuesday the Biden administration called on NASA to set an internationally useful standard for measuring time on the moon and other celestial bodies...

03.04.2024 9

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Some people may see more images per second than others, study finds

People perceive visual information at different speeds and some people effectively see more images per second than others, according to new research...

02.04.2024 8

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The most anti-science belief you can hold is that science is a religion

“Fringe”, “weird” and “unthinkable” are perfectly acceptable descriptors any science writer might use when rightfully denouncing some...

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Orange is the new black hole: "Milestone" discovery of Milky Way vortex reveals freaky spirals

If you've never seen a gigantic electric-orange donut made of neatly ordered spiraling magnetic fields, spinning around the edges of a supermassive...

28.03.2024 4

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How to unlock Instagram's political content settings in 3 easy steps

Instagram and Threads have begun limiting political content in user feeds and some members are less than amused with parent company Meta's new feed...

26.03.2024 10

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Think Kate Middleton’s data-privacy fiasco is bad? US hospitals are under cyber-siege

Data privacy officials in the United Kingdom are currently investigating a privacy breach that impacted the Princess of Wales, Kate Middleton, after...

22.03.2024 4

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Pentagon report denies UFOs are aliens. Experts accuse the government of misrepresenting the truth

A new report from the Pentagon on unidentified flying objects and unidentified anomalous phenomena has partially confirmed high-profile whistleblower...

14.03.2024 4

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On abortion rights, Blue Dog Biden is all bark, no bite

In a deeply unconvincing speech full of stale platitudes and bare-minimum promises, President Joe Biden treated abortion rights like they were a...

09.03.2024 8

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I code the body electric: We're putting AI brains in robot bodies now. What could go wrong?

If we open a humanoid robot’s metal skull right now and replaced the regular old computer in there with one that has access to a large language...

05.03.2024 10

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France becomes first country to enshrine abortion rights in constitution

On Monday, France became the first country in the world to enshrine abortion rights in its national constitution. On a 780 to 72 vote,...

04.03.2024 2

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France set to enshrine abortion rights in constitution

The French Senate passed a bill Wednesday constitutionally enshrining abortion rights, as reported by Le Monde. The bill is expected to receive final...

29.02.2024 10

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Black women are vital to science and health journalism

A quiet panic started happening sometime last summer in the world of science. The root of the issue began long before that, but by October 2023 it...

26.02.2024 9

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Anti-privacy giants want you to surrender hope. Don't give up without a fight

I’m often guilty of it myself. Letting defeat creep in when I see all of us getting stomped on by tech-enabled jackboots in an unregulated corporate...

20.02.2024 2

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"Serious national security threat": Fears rise over reports Russia plans to put a nuke in space

House Intelligence Committee Chair Mike Turner (R-Ohio) called on President Joe Biden to declassify all intelligence reports related to an unnamed...

15.02.2024 20

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What the NFL and Elon Musk's Neuralink share in common

Elon Musk’s controversial brain-computer interface (BCI) tech, Neuralink, has supposedly been implanted in its first recipient — and as much as I...

11.02.2024 5

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NASA lays off 530 workers at Jet Propulsion Lab, endangering future space missions

NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory said in a memo Tuesday that it is laying off approximately 570 workers because it still does not have a federally...

07.02.2024 10

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"Category 6": Mega-hurricanes becoming so strong they need new category, scientists say

As the effects of climate change intensify tropical storms across the globe, a new study has proposed updating the category of hurricane strength to...

07.02.2024 10

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“Old Smoker” and the “Squalling Newborns”: Strange new star type discovered hiding in the Milky Way

After a decade spent monitoring the sky, an international team of astronomers have discovered a nursery of newborn stars, along with an entirely new...

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23andMe's lesson to tech elites: The days of sloppy security are over

This isn’t the first time at-home genetic testing company 23andMe has been in the news for a hack, but the recent breach — whose details were...

05.02.2024 10

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RIP Ingenuity: NASA's space helicopter may be dead, but the agency's next gen are nearing lift-off

Last week, one of the most innovative missions in space exploration came to a bitter end. NASA’s famously successful Ingenuity rotorcraft — the...

31.01.2024 7

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"Holy grail" of shark science: Newborn great white shark caught on video for first time ever

In what may yet be the first-ever recorded sighting, a newborn great white shark pup (Carcharodon carcharias) has been captured on video. The pup was...

30.01.2024 2

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Colombia calls for aid as forest fires fueled by climate change destroy more than 42,000 acres

Colombian President Gustavo Petro declared a national emergency last week, and has appealed for international aid, as more than 340 forest fires have...

30.01.2024 10

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The Trump White House was hopped up on Air Force "go pills" because of course it was

I bet the best part of working in the Trump White House was the drugs. We’re talking about the headquarters of the most powerful man on earth, here...

29.01.2024 30

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The elemental poetry of an underground particle accelerator in South Dakota

4,850 feet beneath the Black Hills of South Dakota, there’s an underground particle accelerator in a former gold mine. Here, a motorcycle-riding...

26.01.2024 40

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China's new dark matter lab is the largest and deepest in the world

As recently reported by the journal Nature, China's new underground dark matter detection laboratory is now the biggest and deepest in the world,...

26.01.2024 20

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New study brings us closer to solar space farms that beam renewable energy back to Earth

It sounds like a long shot to some: The idea of solar power plants orbiting the Earth and beaming renewable energy back to us. But new research from...

17.01.2024 3

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The "enshittification" of tech extends to space, too

Alright, rocket jockeys. Get in here. I don’t know what kind of half-cocked space-frat party you satellite barons have been throwing these last 20...

17.01.2024 5

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Punchline science: What we accidentally learned from a study on humor

The funniest thing about studying the science of humor is that you’re essentially watching a bunch of nerds try to explain a joke. Then people get...

16.01.2024 2

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In Win for Reproductive Rights, FTC Bans Data Brokers From Selling Location Data

In a significant victory for the privacy of people seeking abortion in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission has issued a groundbreaking ban on the...

11.01.2024 3

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Abortion rights vs Big Tech: A major privacy win against “corporate surveillance”

In a significant victory for the privacy of people seeking abortion in the U.S., the Federal Trade Commission has issued a groundbreaking ban on the...

11.01.2024 9

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"Critical loss": "Anomaly" kills off commercial US moon mission

Peregrine Mission One — the first American moon-landing effort since Apollo — has failed, according to lead engineers at the NASA-chosen private...

11.01.2024 4

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"Impossible": OpenAI admits ChatGPT can't exist without pinching copyrighted work

Artificial intelligence company OpenAI — currently valued at a minimum $80 billion — told the British Parliament on Monday that its...

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Welcome to 2024: The only thing you have to lose is your mind

As we’re again shoved face-first into another year of surveillance capitalism, climate change, imperial decline and nuclear tensions, America's...

09.01.2024 5

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New study describes how insects heal injured workers, putting the "ant" in antibiotics

Just like their mammalian counterparts, many insect species are quite social. Among these social insect colonies, a rather brave sub-Saharan species...

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The bitter thrashing of a former data darling: Nate Silver tweets through it

Giving more column inches to Nate Silver after he’s been showered with such a charitable amount of attention this week isn’t ideal, I know. After...

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The 6 worst tech fails in 2023

Just when we thought America’s spiraling descent into tech-fueled corporate surveillance dystopia couldn’t get any more gallows-hilarious, 2023...

31.12.2023 10

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Pediatric soup burns "alarmingly" high; report

Being accidentally burned as a child isn't uncommon, but one source of burns stands out far more among the rest: soup. As reported by The Atlantic,...

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These 8 mind-bending moments in science made us question reality in 2023

The world of scientific research was a bonanza for brain-bending discoveries in 2023, with experts from the fields of astronomy, cosmology,...

29.12.2023 10

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New York Times sues OpenAI, Microsoft for using its articles to train chatbots

The New York Times filed suit against OpenAI and Microsoft on Tuesday in the Federal District Court in Manhattan, accusing the two tech giants of...

27.12.2023 8

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"Underwhelming": Biden admin tosses token protection to old-growth forests

A coalition of more than 120 environmental groups applauded what it called "an important first step" Tuesday, when the U.S. Forest Service announced a...

21.12.2023 10

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