Birds are dying in the United States and no one knows why

There's a new epidemic, this time among birds. An illness is infecting them in While humans and other animals continue to grapple with COVID-19, …
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Extreme weather: Why people risk their lives to save their homes

Despite evacuation orders, some people choose to stay and defend their home during extreme weather events. Why do they do it? In December 2019, Jack …
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Russia blames ISS incident on software glitch

A Russian space agency chief said "a human factor" could have also played a role in the incident that briefly pushed the International Spac…
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AI protein database reveal is 'a great leap' for biology

The transformative AlphaFold neural network has predicted the structures of more than 350,000 proteins from various organisms. This could "funda…
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Does life on Earth depend on the planet's rotation?

Life on Earth depends on oxygen. And it now seems that oxygen depends on a slow day-night cycle, as a new study shows. It's a question of fundame…
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Will there be an mRNA vaccine for cancer?

Vaccines for cancer caused by some viruses already exist. But the search for a cure for cancer is ongoing. Scientists are now trialling mRNA cancer v…
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Europe's wildfires also driven by rural flight

It's not just drought and strong winds driving the catastrophic wildfires in southern Europe, fire expert Johann Goldammer says in an interview w…
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West Africa's liver cancer cases linked to hepatitis

Liver cancer is strikingly prevalent in West Africa. Specialists point to high rates of hepatitis as a likely cause, but the region is not well equip…
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Sex and the Body: Time for some real talk!

Why don't we lose our hymens? Why do we fart more when we're on our period? And how similar are the clitoris and penis, really? Here's th…
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Thank the Babylonians, not Pythagoras, for trigonometry

Most every kid learns a² + b² = c² in math. Pythagoras, right? Wrong. Babylonians used trigonometry 1,000 years before the Greeks. Time to rewrite hi…
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