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Death by Lightning Is Common for Tropic Trees

[THUNDER SOUND] The chance that a human being like you will be struck by lightning is miniscule. But what if…

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Elon Musk’s Pig-Brain Implant Is Still a Long Way from ‘Solving Paralysis’

Last week Elon Musk’s brain tech start-up Neuralink unveiled the latest version of its neural implant technology. In characteristic Musk…

5 years ago

LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet

The alert caught Zsuzsanna Márka’s attention immediately. Whenever the U.S.-based Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and its European counterpart Virgo…

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Stop Stealing Doctors from Developing Countries

Every year, more than 4,000 foreign graduates of international medical schools come to the United States for a residency program.…

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Want to Talk to Aliens? Try Changing the Technological Channel Beyond Radio

The endeavor known as the search for extraterrestrial intelligence (SETI) has long relied on radio telescopes to listen for broadcasts…

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How Those Bogus Reports on ‘Ineffective’ Neck Gaiters Got Started

In early August, there was a lot of hubbub around a study that purportedly showed that wearing a neck gaiter,…

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Welcome to 175 Years of Discovery

An orientation to our special issueAdvertisement A few years after the first issue of this magazine was published, a New…

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How Astronomers Revolutionized Our View of the Cosmos

In 1835 French philosopher Auguste Comte asserted that nobody would ever know what the stars were made of. “We understand…

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Quantum Computing May Be Closer Than You Think

Fully functional quantum computers and a new quantum industry may appear much sooner than many have anticipated—thanks to five new…

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Doctors Chase Treatment for Kids Threatened by Dangerous COVID-19 Syndrome

On a warm, mid-June afternoon a concerned mother brought her 11-year-old daughter, who had a high fever and a severe…

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