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A Stunning Image Shows Stars Aligned for the James Webb Space Telescope
After James Webb Space Telescope officials released a stunning image of a single star, the team is ready to get other telescope…
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Proposed SEC Climate Rules Have Sparked a Fight over Indirect Emissions
The Securities and Exchange Commission broke new ground yesterday when it unveiled a 510-page rulebook that, if finalized, would force…
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How Many Nuclear Weapons Exist, and Who Has Them?
Since Russia first invaded Ukraine nearly three weeks ago, the threat of nuclear weapon use has risen. This was made…
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Are ‘COVID Toes’ Actually Caused by the Coronavirus?
In March 2020, just as COVID-19 cases began to surge in Boston, Massachusetts, Esther Freeman noticed something peculiar—a deluge of…
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Covid-19 news: Nearly 30 million in China are now living in lockdown
By Michael Le Page, Clare Wilson, Jessica Hamzelou, Sam Wong, Graham Lawton, Adam Vaughan, Conrad Quilty-Harper, Jason Arunn Murugesu, Layal…
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Health Check newsletter: Parallels between vaping and covid-19 debates
By Clare Wilson Hello, and welcome to this week’s Health Check, the weekly newsletter that gives you the health and…
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Countries agree to end plastic pollution in ambitious global treaty
A legally binding agreement between 175 countries encompasses all stages of plastic’s life cycle, from production to consumption and disposal…
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Mathematicians Protest Russia Hosting Major Conference
As Ukrainian researchers have feared for their lives and careers after Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, mathematicians have been grappling over…
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The Pandemic Set Off a Boom in Diagnostics
A decade ago Willy Ssengooba began crisscrossing Uganda, training health-care workers on how to use a new machine to detect…
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How a Virus Exposed the Myth of Rugged Individualism
For countless Americans, there was a dull but persistent pain to prepandemic life: high-priced housing, nearly inaccessible health care, underresourced…
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