SCIENCE
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Why Ozempic and Wegovy Don’t Cause Weight Loss for Everyone
People taking popular new weight-loss drugs such as Wegovy and Zepbound often celebrate the number of pounds they shed and…
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Ancient DNA Reveals New Diseases behind Napoleon’s 1812 Russian Retreat
October 24, 2025 3 min read Napoleon’s Defeat in Russia Was Aided by Two Surprising Deadly Diseases Disease-causing bacteria that…
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Retinal Implant Allows People with Blindness to Read Again in Small Trials
Scientists have used an eye implant to improve the vision of dozens of people left functionally blind by age-related macular…
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Flu Cases Surge Early in Japan, Sparking Global Health Concerns
October 17, 2025 2 min read Flu Cases Surge Early in Japan, Sparking Global Health Concerns School closures and hospitalizations…
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Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’s
October 15, 2025 3 min read Men’s Brains Shrink Faster than Women’s. What That Means for Alzheimer’s Women’s brains age…
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How the Math That Powers Google Foresaw the New Pope
October 11, 2025 5 min read The Math That Predicted the New Pope A decades-old technique from network science saw…
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Birds Went Silent during the Great North American Eclipse—Here’s What Researchers Discovered
When a total solar eclipse plunged North America into darkness on the afternoon of April 8, 2024, the songbirds in…
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Mathematicians Discover Prime Number Pattern in Fractal Chaos
Prime numbers are sometimes called math’s “atoms” because they can be divided by only themselves and 1. For two millennia,…
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Jane Goodall’s Legacy of Challenging What It Means to Be a Scientist
Jane Goodall, a British primatologist known for her work with chimpanzees, died on Wednesday 1 October, aged 91. She was…
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Are We Alone? NASA’s Habitable Worlds Observatory Aims to Find Out
It’s a sweltering Tuesday in Washington, D.C., the kind of day that stretches the definition of Earth as a “habitable”…
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