Sunlight helps clean up oil spills in the ocean more than previously thought
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Sunlight may have helped remove as much as 17 percent...
Nudge theory’s popularity may block insights into improving society
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Imagine removing a branch of the U.S. government, say the Supreme Court. What are...
‘From Data to Quanta’ defends Niels Bohr’s view of quantum mechanics
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From Data to QuantaSlobodan PerovićUniv. of Chicago, $45
Ever since Max Planck introduced...
Chewing sugar-free gum reduced preterm births in a large study
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Chewing a sugar-free gum daily reduced preterm births in a large study in...
How ‘hot Jupiters’ may get their weirdly tight orbits
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Strange giant planets known as hot Jupiters, which orbit close to their suns, got...
Freshwater ice can melt into scallops and spikes
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Water’s wacky density leads to strange effects that researchers are still uncovering.
Typically, liquids become denser...
These are the first visible-light images of Venus’ surface captured from space
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By serendipity, scientists have photographed Venus’ surface from space for the...
Readers ask about the Milky Way’s newfound ‘feather’, CT scan safety and more
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Fine feather
A filament of cold, dense gas named the Gangotri...
How machines help us decipher our genes
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Back in the 1990s, I toured MIT’s Whitehead Institute in Cambridge, Mass., one of the key...
Gene therapies for sickle cell disease come with hope and challenges
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Today, it’s clear that our genes not only cause many diseases, but...
A diamondlike structure gives some starfish skeletons their strength
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Some starfish made of a brittle material fortify themselves with architectural antics.
Beneath a starfish’s...
Omicron crushed delta in the U.S. These numbers show just how fast it happened
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If it felt like omicron exploded with mind-boggling speed,...
Fossils reveal what may be the oldest known case of the dino sniffles
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The prehistoric world wasn’t a paradise free of disease, but...
