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Science, Spoken

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The novelist makes the Earthly rituals of sex, marriage, childbirth—and all of human life—appear delightfully outlandish.

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Sayaka Murata Inhabits a Planet of Her Own

Human cases keep ticking up, are very likely to be underreported, and offer the virus the opportunity to learn how to spread from person to person.
 

 
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The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing

Measles, bedbugs, and dengue have all been cited as concerns for tourists and athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, with the tropical virus in particular forcing authorities into action.
 

 
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Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

Guilt-free air travel is a beautiful dream, but there’s simply no way to get enough solar energy to keep a cabin full of people in the air.
 

 
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No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane

Researchers believe they have discovered oxygen being produced 4,000 meters below the sea surface, and think polymetallic nodules—the sought-after bounty of deep-sea miners—could be the source.
 

 
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The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor

The next wave of obesity drugs could help people lose even more weight—and make some pharma companies a fortune.
 

 
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The Race for the Next Ozempic

Activists believe that the vice president, who is already the leading voice for reproductive rights in the Biden administration, will champion their cause.
 

 
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Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris

Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update.
 

 
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Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown

Analysis of lunar imagery has ended a longstanding debate over whether there are accessible underground areas on the Moon; an emptied lava tube in the Sea of Tranquility is of particular interest.
 

 
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Newly Discovered Moon Caves Could One Day House Astronauts

Missions to explore other worlds, like Mars or Saturn’s moon Titan, could disrupt or destroy extraterrestrial life in the process of seeking it.
 

 
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To Find Alien Life, We Might Have to Kill It

Researchers collected sediment thousands of feet deep, filtered out bacteria, and revived the cells. But fear not—the destruction of humanity by ancient microbes is not nigh. 

 
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Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes

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