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Earth Day - April 22, 2026 - Earth Day in the Artemis era: Can NASA's moon missions spur a new environmental movement?

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The Lyrid meteor shower is peaking now

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NASA's Roman Space Telescope will begin its revolutionary mission in September

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RFK, Jr., set to overhaul key committee that issues disease screening recommendations

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Whatever happened to the ozone hole, acid rain and DDT?

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A smoking ban for people born after 2008 may be on the cusp of becoming law in the U.K. Here's what to know

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How did humans evolve language? It may be far more ancient than scientists realized

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Half of New York City's population is at risk of 'extreme' flood damage

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The hidden cause of heart disease is inflammation

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How strange new 'altermagnets' could rewrite physics

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How birds survived the dinosaurs' doomsday

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Space hotels are coming soon

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Inside the labs where chemists engineer luxury perfumes

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How a lost 1812 wristwatch sparked a 200-year race in precision engineering

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Can sunlight cure disease?

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Can peanut allergies be cured?

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How much vitamin D do you need to stay healthy?

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Personalized mRNA vaccines will revolutionize cancer treatment-if funding cuts don't doom them

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New nasal vaccines offer better protection from COVID and flu-no needle needed

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April 22, 2026 - Amid climate doom, here's an Earth Day reminder about spectacular environmental wins

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'Cocaine hippos,' faster aging with HIV and the hidden dangers of inflammation

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The dinosaurs at your window: How birds survived the asteroid that killed all other dinosaurs

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The fans who went from collecting Pokemon to studying bugs and fossils

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Artemis proves NASA can return to the moon. Now comes the hard question: Why?

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Where do you stand on the use of peptides for health and wellness?

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Do you think it's a good idea to be able to unlock memories from the past?

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Society & Policy -- FBI investigating possible links between deaths and disappearances of at least 10 scientists

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Autism -- Here's what the autism spectrum really looks like

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Quantum Physics -- What if time were reversed? Physicists show how time could flow backward on a quantum scale

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Math -- Mathematicians found out why waiting for the elevator takes forever

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Epidemiology -- Why firstborns may be more likely than secondborns to be autistic or to have allergies

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Artificial Intelligence -- What is Mythos, Anthropic's unreleased AI model, and how worried should we be?

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