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Chicken nuggets on a blue table
Health

The government wants to understand the health effects of ultraprocessed foods so it paid people $5,000 to eat chicken nuggets for science

By Jonel Aleccia and The Associated Press
March 12, 2025
Nate Brough, with a mohawk and sunglasses, speaks outside with a blue sky behind him.
Politics

Fired NIH workers fear bleak job prospects in the private sector because their research is too specific to be retrofitted: ‘No VC is going to fund that’

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March 11, 2025
Elon Musk spared by Royal Society after 150 members meet to debate his expulsion over ‘misinformation and ideologically motivated attacks’
Tech

Elon Musk spared by Royal Society after 150 members meet to debate his expulsion over ‘misinformation and ideologically motivated attacks’

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March 4, 2025
Elon Musk, chief executive officer of Tesla Inc., in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, US, on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2025.
Tech

Elon Musk faces exile from 365-year-old Royal Society scientific institution over his political behavior

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February 17, 2025
Close-up view of man in blue button-down shirt placing pills in his hand.
Health

New pain drug, Vertex’s Journavx, gets FDA approval as safer alternative to addictive opioids

By Bloomberg and Gerry Smith
January 31, 2025
Bill Nye on Tuesday, May 9, 2023.
Success

Bill Nye’s advice for Gen Z grads: ‘Pessimistic people don’t get very much done’—and they’ll drag you down with them

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January 10, 2025
A person in a blue hat and denim jacket participates in a snowball fight
Environment

How cold blasts are paradoxically caused by global warming, as freezing polar vortex sweeps U.S.

By Seth Borenstein and The Associated Press
January 7, 2025
Alarm clock
Tech

A top-secret U.K. lab is building a quantum clock so accurate it can go billions of years without losing any time

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January 2, 2025
Photo of David Baker
Tech

Scientist says the one thing everyone hates about AI is ultimately what helped him win a Nobel Prize

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December 24, 2024
Demis Hassabis-James Manyika: AI will help us understand the very fabric of reality
Commentary

Demis Hassabis-James Manyika: AI will help us understand the very fabric of reality

By Demis Hassabis and James Manyika
November 18, 2024
This Berlin company is pioneering a chilling new €50-a-month cryogenics subscription
Lifestyle

This Berlin company is pioneering a chilling new €50-a-month cryogenics subscription

By Femke Colborne and AFP
November 15, 2024
Anne Wojcicki, wearing a red dress, sits in a white chair as she speaks.
Tech

After its entire board resigned overnight, 23andMe will cut over 200 employees and its cancer research in an urgent bid to nurse the company back to health

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November 12, 2024
Bride and bridegroom in back seat of car
Success

8 out of 10 women change their name after marriage—they might not realize the impact it has on their careers, work relationships, and job prospects

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October 25, 2024
Marines unload Amphibious Combat Vehicles at Camp Pendleton, CA on Wednesday, October 16, 2024 following a 6-month deployment. The vehicles are part of the first ACV platoon to be used by the Marines in a deployment and to train with military partners in the Indo-Pacific.
Newsletters

OpenAI is quietly pitching its products to the U.S. military and national security establishment

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October 17, 2024
COVID-19 raises the stakes for heart attacks, strokes, and even death long after infection, new study finds
Commentary

COVID-19 raises the stakes for heart attacks, strokes, and even death long after infection, new study finds

By
October 11, 2024

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