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We May Not Have Enough Bird Flu Vaccines when We Need Them

Exotic Powder Pulls Carbon Dioxide from the Air at a Record Rate

Scientific American editor steps down after calling Trump supporters ‘fascists’ and ‘bigoted’

Earth Will Exceed 1.5 Degrees Celsius of Warming This Year

Grief is simply the outcome of loss, but there’s a caveat—the criterion for what you lost is that you were attached to it

Now is the best time in the history of the U.S. to cast a vote

Polls can tell us only the same thing they’ve been predicting for a year and a half: ‘it looks like it’s going to be close’

Dr. Nina Vasan: I’m hearing people say they’re having nightmares of what could happen in two weeks or next year

The International Space Station Has Been Leaking for Five Years

Vasectomies Are Becoming Popular in a Post-Roe World

In Record-Hottest Year, U.S. Voters Will Decide Climate’s Path Forward

Climate Change Is Raising the Temperature on Global Conflict

Eugenics was debunked as both unsound and morally repugnant decades ago, but Donald Trump has repackaged its key lies to appeal to 21st-century America

We’re Overdue for a Once-in-a-Lifetime Naked-Eye Nova

In the annals of U.S. pork barrel spending, NASA’s Space Launch System is a monument to Sunbelt socialism

How Health Care Affordability and Access Could Change under Harris or Trump

How a Harris or Trump Presidency Could Affect Gun Policy