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Tornadoes Are Coming in Bunches. Scientists Are Trying to Figure Out Why.

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Tornadoes tend to travel in packs these days, often with a dozen or more forming in the same region on the same day....
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Why You Can Hear the Temperature of Water

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Most people are quite good at distinguishing between the sound of a hot liquid and the sound of a cold one being poured,...
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The Ever-Resilient Pupfish Makes a Comeback in Death Valley

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When it comes to sheer resilience, few, if any, species can match the tiny Devils Hole pupfish.Cyprinodon diabolis, as the species is known,...
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China Rules the Green Economy. Here’s Why That’s a Problem for Biden.

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The world’s two most powerful countries, the United States and China, are meeting this week in Washington to talk about climate change. And...
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Latest Updates: NASA Astronauts Prepare for First Launch on Boeing Starliner

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May 6, 2024, 6:00 p.m. ETMay 6, 2024, 6:00 p.m. ETNASA astronauts will launch to orbit in a spacecraft they’ve never flown before,...
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Locks of Beethoven’s Hair Offer New Clues to the Mystery of His Deafness

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At 7 p.m. on May 7, 1824, Ludwig van Beethoven, then 53, strode onto the stage of the magnificent Theater am Kärntnertor in...
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Was the Stone Age Actually the Wood Age?

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In 1836, Christian Jürgensen Thomsen, a Danish antiquarian, brought the first semblance of order to prehistory, suggesting that the early hominids of Europe...
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What Happens When NASA Loses Eyes on Earth? We’re About to Find Out.

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Sometime in the next few years — no one knows exactly when — three NASA satellites, each one as heavy as an elephant,...
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Study Suggests Genetics as a Cause, Not Just a Risk, for Some Alzheimer’s

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Scientists are proposing a new way of understanding the genetics of Alzheimer’s that would mean that up to a fifth of patients would...
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First Patient Begins Newly Approved Sickle Cell Gene Therapy

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On Wednesday, Kendric Cromer, a 12-year-old boy from a suburb of Washington, became the first person in the world with sickle cell disease...
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