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The West Texas Measles Outbreak Has Ended
A large measles outbreak in Texas that has affected 762 people has now ended, according…
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UN Plastics Treaty Talks Once Again End in Failure
Despite Friday’s outcome, the plastics treaty does not yet appear to be dead. Virtually all…
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RFK Jr. Is Supporting mRNA Research—Just Not for Vaccines
One of the targeted recipients, Tiba Biotech, had a $750,000 contract with BARDA that was…
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Starlink Mini users just lost their beloved pause feature
Starlink now charges $5 a month to pause its high-speed, low-latency internet service, a feature…
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UK government suggests deleting files to save water
Can deleting old emails and photos help the UK tackle ongoing drought this year? That’s…
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Why Donald Trump’s environmental data purge is so much worse this time
Now that we’re about halfway into the first year of President Donald Trump’s second term,…
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RFK Jr. wants a wearable on every American — that future’s not as healthy as he thinks
I keep hearing the same sentence repeating in my head.“My vision is that every American…
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The History and Physics of the Atomic Bomb
In 1938, Italian physicist Enrico Fermi, who had fled to New York to escape fascism,…
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US Coast Guard Report on Titan Submersible Implosion Singles Out OceanGate CEO Stockton Rush
The report says that data from acoustic sensors and strain gauges on board indicated that…