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The iconic one-eyed monster coming to movie screens in July in The Odyssey might have more in common with tiny water critters than with humans.
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“I don’t worry about what I will find on the other side of eternal sleep,” J. D. Vance writes in his new book, Communion. “Even as a child, I never feared hell.” Charming sentences to find in a book b...
Taylor Mitchem’s baby was born in March 2020. By the time they both left the hospital, the world had shut down. Mitchem had no extended family nearby, no friends who could visit. Her husband was aroun...
Every knowledge-based profession may one day reach the point when AI outperforms the human experts. In medicine, that day appeared to come in April. A group of primarily Harvard and Stanford researche...
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It’s the time of year when audio brands go big and hope you bring them into your home. Some of these launches weight more than your couch and cost more than your car. We’ve previously shared some of t...
President Trump lost. The war he waged against Iran promises to conclude in a humbling whimper with the signing of a cease-fire agreement later this week. The United States is left weaker—diminished m...
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NPR's Adrian Florido speaks with ecologist Justin Stewart about mapping the complex network of fungi connecting the Earth's plants.
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Tiny water-secreting pores appear to organize the major veins of the plant leaves into an arrangement known as a Voronoi diagram.
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The Hōfuku Maru had been a freighter before it was converted into a "hellship" for prisoners of war by the Japanese Navy during World War II.
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Several countries can claim some credit for the tentative memorandum of understanding to end the war between Iran and the United States, which officials from both countries plan to sign later this wee...
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AI helped researchers develop an experimental blood test that might let doctors diagnose overlapping dementias.
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“Ships of the World, start your engines,” Donald Trump declared on Truth Social on Sunday. “Let the oil flow!”This was the president’s way of announcing that the United States and Iran had reached an ...
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Fourth of July celebrations got an early start in a nearby galaxy. Astronomers using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory to observe galaxy Messier 83 (M83) spotted the unexpected explosive aftermath of a...
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Late last month, I began to consider withdrawing some money from my savings account to buy gold. It’s the first time I’ve ever thought about panic-buying. For all of the firewalls and two-factor-authe...
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Albania's government has given preliminary approval to plans for the luxury resort along a stretch of coastline, prompting daily protests and legal challenges by environmental groups. (Image credit: V...
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Viking 1 kicked off the search for Martian life 50 years ago. Now NASA’s shifting priorities are putting the quest in limbo.
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If you’ve developed World Cup fever over the past few days, then researchers at Bielefeld University want to hear about it. The team is inviting football/soccer fans to share the data collected from t...
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The Upper Colorado River on the Grand Canyon last month. About 40 million people and 5.5 million acres of cropland depend on the Colorado for drinking water and irrigation.
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Meet Brötchen. The pygmy hippopotamus (Choeropsis liberiensis) was born on May 9th at Germany’s Zoo Berlin, weighing in at 13 pounds. “Brötchen” means “breadroll,” in German, and the zoo’s new member ...
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This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter. Sign up for it here.The president of the United States announced last month that, in place of performances by Martina McBride, Youn...
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For most butterfly species, an adult’s life is brief and—with all due respect to butterflies—unextraordinary. After emerging from its chrysalis, a butterfly will stretch its new wings and set off in s...
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A team from the Center for Coastal Studies (CCS) untangled a young humpback whale (Megaptera novaeangliae) off the coast of Massachusetts. The whale was caught in fishing gear in the Stellwagen Bank N...
On the night of January 8, in the low-slung, industrial city of Karaj, just northwest of Tehran, a 17-year-old boy named Sam Afshari was killed by Iran’s security services. He and his friends were pea...
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Amazon’s own hardware gets its deepest cuts during Prime Day, and a handful are already live in the early deals. Early deals rotate fast, and a lot of the bigger device discounts won’t land until the ...
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Food and medicine have always been deeply intertwined. In tracing the origins of a food product, it can be hard to separate its supposed health benefits from all the other reasons we choose to eat som...
Sign up for Ordinary Extraordinary, Ian Bogost’s guide to making everyday life vivid again. You’ll receive the first edition of the limited-run newsletter course in early July.Eating a pint of ice cre...
The Plot Against the HumanitiesIn the March issue, Tyler Austin Harper considered what the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation is doing to higher education.Thank you to Tyler Austin Harper. Though certainly c...
“Where shall we look for Washington, the greatest among men,” asked Parson Weems in 1800, “but in America—that greatest Continent, which, rising from beneath the frozen pole, stretches far and wide to...
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One of the world's leading brain research centers is shifting away from fruit flies and toward a tiny, transparent fish. The goal: to understand how brains control the behavior of an animal or human.(...
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The green water didn't bother some visitors.
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Bottles of Feel Free, a kratom product produced by Botanic Tonics, displayed at a smoke shop in Oklahoma City last month.
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A cold blob of water in the North Atlantic points to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, researchers report.
Father’s Day lands on June 21 this year, which also happens to be the longest day of the year. That gives you maximum daylight and minimum calendar left before it arrives. If our initial 2026 Father’s...
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One of the world's leading brain research labs is switching from fruit flies to a tiny, transparent fish. The goal is to observe an entire animal's brain at work.
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Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. during a House hearing in April. Last June, he fired all 17 members of a vaccine advisory committee and named new ones, many of whom share his skepticism of vacc...
Declaring that “the deal is all signed” with Iran, as President Trump did today, is like shopping for a wedding dress after a good first date: It’s just too soon.A deal has an element of finality and ...
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If you missed the chance to get your name in space during Artemis II’s historic mission in April, you don’t have to wait until Artemis III in 2027 for another opportunity. Today, NASA opened up submis...
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Body temperature is considered a crucial vital sign of general health, but getting a reading with an oral or forehead thermometer does not always tell the whole story. And getting an internal by putti...
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Vitamin K lowers the risk of bleeding, including in a circumcision. That procedure may explain a disparity in which infants are more likely to get the shot.
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America’s Time Capsule has officially been sealed. The custom-made, “zombie-proof” box includes letters, artifacts, records, and objects selected to help tell the story of the United States at its Sem...
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A science-art team uses research data to make music featuring sounds of Antarctica and outer space
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The sky was a very dangerous place in the early days of commercial aviation. By flying into storms to learn how they worked, these experts made air travel and weather forecasting much more predictable
There may be no more idyllic trope than the housecat stuck in a tree. It’s the standard by which all Rockwellian neighborhoods are measured, and the quickest route to suburban heroism. But does it rea...
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Anything can happen out in the ocean. A group of students exploring the shores of Nest Key in the northwest Florida Keys recently learned this firsthand when they watched a male seahorse give birth. T...
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Technological advancements sometimes feel like a perpetual fight against nature itself, with scientists working out how to do things faster, more powerfully, and more efficiently. In short, trying to ...