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You always have room for a sugary treat MarioGuti/iStockphoto/Getty Images Even after eating a large meal, most people can still find room for sweets. Now, research in mice shows that the neurons responsible for feelings of fullness are also those…

A Eurasian beaver that was reintroduced in Devon, UK Nature Picture Library/Alamy Between 1990 and 2014, forests in Europe expanded by 13 million hectares, an area roughly equivalent to the size of Greece – but that came with a cost.…

A measles outbreak is growing in a Texas county with dangerously low vaccination rates. In late January, two school-age children from Gaines County were hospitalized with measles. Since an estimated 1 in 5 people with the disease end up in…

The Los Angeles river, with the downtown LA skyline in the distance Ekaterina Chizhevskaya/Getty Images In 2023, a parade of atmospheric rivers brought months of heavy precipitation to much of California, filling reservoirs and raising snowpack far above average levels.…

February 13, 2025 4 min read Scientists React to RFK, Jr.’s Confirmation as HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has expressed support for some fields of science but has also declared he’d like a “break” in infectious-disease research. Here’s what…

Farm waste could be turned into hydrogen fuel ImageryBT/Shutterstock Hydrogen could be made using agricultural waste under a new production process that uses less energy than existing methods and emits no greenhouse gases. The novel process turns bioethanol into clean…

February 13, 2025 4 min read Animal-to-Human Organ Transplants Hit Long-Awaited Testing Milestone Up to 50 transplant patients will receive a genetically modified pig kidney in a clinical trial that will launch this summer By Tanya Lewis edited by Dean…

So far the array has been tested in rats, with a version for dogs coming later, Lavella says. In a demo video viewed exclusively by WIRED, a Canaery scientist uses a wand to capture an air sample from four different…

“Fossil fuel companies were never going to voluntarily admit to their role in the climate crisis”… An oil refinery at twilight. Samart Boonyang/Alamy Fossil fuel companies were never going to voluntarily admit to their role in the climate crisis. By…

In 1960 Marthe Gautier left the lab where she had discovered the genetic cause of Down syndrome and went on to have a successful career as a pediatric cardiologist. For decades, she remained silent as her former colleague Jérôme Lejeune…