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King Charles Doesn’t Have as Many Swans as He Used to

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Six wooden skiffs set out from the town of Sunbury-on-Thames this month on a five-day mission with a single goal: to uphold one...
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NASA Seeks a Nuclear-Powered Rocket to Get to Mars in Half the Time

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A Number That Sums It Up: 3 to 4 months to MarsWhat if a spacecraft could get to Mars in half the time...
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A Pancaked Turtle Fossil’s 150-Million-Year-Old Tale

Barbara Chase -
Today it is Bavaria, a region of Germany. But in the Late Jurassic Period, it was a shallow tropical archipelago ringed with sponge...
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A Looming Retraction Casts a Shadow Over a Field of Physics

Barbara Chase -
A major physics journal is retracting a two-year-old scientific paper that described the transformations of a chemical compound as it was squeezed between...
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Flipping a Switch and Making Cancers Self-Destruct

Barbara Chase -
Within every cancer are molecules that spur deadly, uncontrollable growth. What if scientists could hook those molecules to others that make cells self-destruct?...
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For Adults With No Heart Attack or Stroke History, More Evidence Not to Start Aspirin

Barbara Chase -
A new analysis of data from a large clinical trial of healthy older adults found higher rates of brain bleeding among those who...
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Wastewater Data Mirrored Covid Case Counts During First Omicron Wave

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Why It Matters: Case counts have become less reliable.Even if people who are infected with the coronavirus never seek testing or treatment, they...
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When Ancient Eruptions Pumped Diamonds to Earth’s Surface

Barbara Chase -
While diamonds might look pretty perched atop a ring, the rocks they hail from venture to Earth’s surface in a journey that’s anything...
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The Covid Origins Debate

Barbara Chase -
Did Covid jump from an animal to a person at a food market in Wuhan, China — or leak from a research lab...
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A Fight to Save Soldiers, From the Lab to the Battlefield

Barbara Chase -
He evokes the psychic force field of money and power as it warps the ethics even of distinguished, principled doctors and soldiers. And...
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