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Why do we age? As young people, we look invincible. We climb trees, frolick in the dirt, and share an astonishing amount of mucus without hesitation. In college, you can keep yourself alive with ramen and beer, party all night…

AI helps doctors draft messages Getty Images/Mascot A small but growing number of people in the United States are receiving messages from doctors that have been created with the help of artificial intelligence, but some of you may not know…

Shutterstock/Emre Akkoyun What do paperclips have to do with the end of the world? Ask any researcher trying to confirm that artificial intelligence works for our benefit, and it’s more than you might imagine. It’s from This dates back to…

The next time you get caught in a downpour, think about how wet you are, not how wet you are. After all, rain is just a molecule made up of hydrogen and oxygen atoms, and nothing wets itself in hydrogen…

Shutterstock/Maria Tagilova You may remember learning about symmetry in school. Perhaps the teacher showed her six-fold symmetry of snowflakes and was surprised that they looked the same no matter how they were rotated. Well, as any mathematician who has studied…

Australia Male possums, Australia’s endangered marsupials, die after their mating season, according to a new study using radio-tracking devices. Scientists have found that possums may become weak and reckless as they sacrifice sleep to travel long distances in search of…

Imagine a child running barefoot through a forest with a broken glass bottle buried just under the soil. Would it be worse for a child today to step on the debris, or for a child 100 years from now to…

This story was originally Appeared in he is not here is part of climate desk collaboration. Dead fish were everywhere, dotting the coast near the town and extending to the surrounding coastline. The mass death of October 2021, when hundreds,…

A mosquito’s mouthparts can easily penetrate most thin fabrics. Borkin Vadim/Shutterstock By experimenting with patterns made on a knitting machine, we developed a thin fabric that is resistant to mosquito bites. John Beckman of Auburn University in Alabama set out…

“This is one of the big questions that we really don’t know at this point,” says Lena Vincent of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California. “Anyone who says otherwise, I am skeptical.” That’s not to say there isn’t a…