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RFK Jr. claims Trump promised to put him in charge of NIH, CDC, and more

Earlier this week, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. used a Zoom call to tell his supporters that Donald Trump had promised him "control" of the Department...

A how-to for ethical geoengineering research

Holistic climate justice: The guidelines recognize that geoengineering won't affect just those people currently residing on Earth, but on future generations as well. Some methods,...

De-extinction company provides a progress report on thylacine efforts

Ex utero? The final thing the company announced was that it was working on getting dunnart embryos to develop outside of the womb. Marsupials are...

Climate change boosted Milton’s landfall strength from Category 2 to 3

Using this simulated data set, called IRIS, the researchers selected for those storms that made landfall along a track similar to that of Milton. Using...

The Summit 1 is not peak mountain bike, but it’s a great all-rounder

EnlargeJohn Timmer As I mentioned in another recent review, I've been checking out electric hardtail mountain bikes lately. Their relative simplicity compared...

High-altitude cave used by Tibetan Buddhists yields a Denisovan fossil

Enlarge / The Baishiya Karst Cave, where the recently analyzed samples were obtained.Dongju Zhang’s group (Lanzhou University) For well over a century,...

Supreme Court issues stay on EPA’s ozone plan, despite blistering dissent

Enlarge / Ozone-producing chemicals come from a variety of sources and don't respect state borders.John Edward Linden On Tuesday, a slim majority...

Congress passes bill to jumpstart new nuclear power tech

Enlargehrui Earlier this week, the US Senate passed what's being called the ADVANCE Act, for Accelerating Deployment of Versatile, Advanced Nuclear for...

When did humans start social knowledge accumulation?

EnlargeIURII BUKHTA A key aspect of humans' evolutionary success is the fact that we don't have to learn how to do things...

Black holes formed quasars less than a billion years after Big Bang

EnlargeNASA, ESA, CSA, Joseph Olmsted (STScI) Supermassive black holes appear to be present at the center of every galaxy, going back to...

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