SCIENCE

El Niño fuels wildfires in Indonesia, sickening some 100,000 people

El Niño conditions are helping to fuel wildfires across Indonesia, leaving some 100,000 people ill or injured, according to the…

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Why music is a powerful tool to quiet stress in the brain

We all know the power of music to make us feel better when stressed. But this relaxing effect goes much…

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Geometry Reveals the Tricks behind Gerrymandering

Hardly anyone reckoned that struggling in high school to calculate the area of a triangle or the volume of a…

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House passes stopgap bill that pauses changes to federal science grant-making process

A Trump administration effort to give political figures control over a large swath of U.S. science funding is off the…

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NASA’s Roman Space Telescope could find alien Earths—but not like you think

When a SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket blasts off from Kennedy Space Center as early as Sunday morning, it will be…

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Is there a ‘window of opportunity’ to prevent Alzheimer’s in women?

One of the most enduring mysteries of Alzheimer’s disease is why women are more likely to develop it and other…

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How “thunderquakes” could help reveal hidden structures inside the Earth

When lightning strikes, it superheats the air around it and creates a shock wave that we hear as thunder. But…

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China’s solar power rollout is harming birds, a new analysis finds

China is the world leader in solar power, but the country’s massive boom in this clean energy source could have…

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What Is El Niño, and What Does It Mean for Weather, Water, and the Global Economy?

El Niño looks to reach an intensity unprecedented in recorded history.Characterized by warmer-than-normal sea surface temperatures in the equatorial Pacific,…

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The Real Reason Data Center Gas Power Plants Are So Dirty

Amazon has acquired a massive off-grid power plant being built in Texas for one of its data centers that could…

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