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You’re more likely to become friends with someone who smells like you
We subconsciously sniff people when we first meet them and are more likely to become friends with those who have…
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Deadly Heat Wave’s Lesson: ‘This Is the Future We All Face’
CLIMATEWIRE | The city of Portland was baking last June and Bureau of Emergency Management Director Jonna Papaefthimiou was in…
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Why Was Afghanistan’s Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake So Devastating?
This week eastern Afghanistan was struck by a middle-of-the night earthquake that became the country’s deadliest in two decades. The…
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How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online
The Supreme Court’s decision to curtail abortion rights has come to fruition. One of the outcomes that will be less…
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AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well
Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to…
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Can farm and food waste power tomorrow’s airplanes?
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF It’s a painful truth for people who…
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Elusive exotic matter called a tetraneutron possibly seen in the lab
Twenty years ago, researchers saw hints of the existence of a type of exotic matter made of four neutrons. Now,…
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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
Deep in the human gut, myriad “good” bacteria and other microbes help us digest our food, as well as keep…
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Seville Launches World’s First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves
CLIMATEWIRE | Seville, Spain, has officially launched a new pilot program to address deadly heat waves. The program, unveiled yesterday…
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Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs
Grabbing a live cone snail while collecting seashells could get you jabbed with a fanglike dart full of potentially fatal—and…
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