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Dark oxygen: How the discovery of new oxygen deep underwater has reignited the search for alien life
Scientists have discovered 'dark oxygen' that is produced deep underwater, potentially reshaping ou…
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AI won't kill your computer science degree, professors say
Harvard computer science professor David Malan told BI that far from displacing software engineers,…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
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Here's the science refresher you need before diving into Netflix's '3 Body Problem'
Netflix's "3 Body Problem" makes a lot of physics references. Two experts help explain some scienti…
Jenny McGrath
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Chinese researchers sent a bunch of zebrafish to space and now they’re swimming weirdly!
Aboard China’s Tiangong space station, four zebrafish 'aquanauts' are thriving in their out-of-this…
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Marketing is an art and a science. Here are 3 ways to amplify creativity in the generative-AI era
Matthew Lieberman, CMO at PwC, shares his tips for marketing leaders on how to use GenAI and other …
Matthew Lieberman
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How a gene-editing breakthrough from a Harvard lab saved the life of a girl with leukemia
A 13-year-old girl became the first-ever patient to receive a base-editing therapy, and her leukemi…
Andrew Dunn
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Scientists are racing to explore more of the ocean hoping to discover medical breakthroughs and address the climate crisis
An array of organizations are working to scale marine biodiscovery to discover beneficial traits fr…
Tasmin Lockwood
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An Indigenous patrol in the Amazon won a 'Green Nobel' after they took gold miners operating on their land to court — and won
The Cofán's Indigenous patrol hunts for signs of trespassing gold miners, and has ultimately put th…
Paola Rosa-Aquino
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31 Nobel Prize winners had ties to the Manhattan Project. Oppenheimer isn't on the list.
The Manhattan Project employed hundreds of thousands of people, including at least 31 Nobel Prize w…
Jenny McGrath
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Think of your COVID-19 vaccine as a seatbelt, not impenetrable armor
Vaccines aren't designed to prevent every infection, like a seatbelt, they're a tool for saving liv…
Andrea Michelson,Hilary Brueck
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6 vaccinated people who got COVID-19 share where they were infected: weddings, summer camps, and a Vegas trip
Breakthrough cases are becoming more common as the more transmissible Delta variant spreads across …
Aria Bendix,Hilary Brueck,And…
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A 33-year-old nurse got long COVID despite being fully vaccinated. Doctors think we may see more of these rare cases.
Anna Kern, who got a breakthrough infection in April, said she was struggling to return to work and…
Aria Bendix
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The Delta variant might pose the biggest threat yet to vaccinated people
Some experts worry that Delta could cause more breakthrough infections. Others are concerned that i…
Aria Bendix
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The mom of a little girl with Down syndrome battled for doctors to pay attention to her unusual side effects — leading to a scientific breakthrough
Melanie Carrigg couldn't hold her head up and wasn't growing. After being dismissed, her mom pushed…
Anna Medaris Miller
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Chien-Shiung Wu, a nuclear physicist who worked on the Manhattan Project, spent her career fighting for gender equality in science
In the 1950s, Wu devised a series of experiments that disproved the law of conservation of parity. …
Yoonji Han
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Watch SpaceX's prized Starship mega-rocket explode into a fireball in a video of its first attempt to launch into space
Elon Musk looked on as Starship tumbled back toward Earth, eventually bursting into flame and smoke…
Morgan McFall-Johnsen,Mariann…
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Nobel prize winnings in a divorce settlement — that’s how much economist Robert E Lucas’ ex-wife believed in him
Economists are often seen as storytellers who live in the make-believe world of theory and conjectu…
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The Green Comet will be closest to earth on Feb 1. Here's the science behind its ghoulish glow.
A comet is essentially a galactic snowball. Physics explains why the green comet's head is green, b…
Marianne Guenot
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This 16-year-old student invented a bulletproof backpack and is now a finalist at the world's largest high school science fair
"I can't vote, but I can engineer," said Ava Cotroneo, a finalist at the Regeneron International Sc…
Peter Gelling
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3 scientists have won the Nobel Prize for discovering the virus that causes hepatitis C
The 2020 honor went to 2 American scientists and a British scientist. Their discoveries paved the w…