AI Hurricane Predictions Are Storming the World of Weather Forecasting
This did not look guaranteed to work, says Matthew Chantry, machine-learning coordinator at the ECWMF, who is spending this storm
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The Climate Crisis Is Driving People to Substance Abuse
Kamal Sonavane knew she’d pass out if she chewed smokeless tobacco one more time. It was a scorching April afternoon
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How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
The NASA recovery team began by taking samples of the desert ground and atmosphere where the capsule landed. Then they
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Another Person Just Got a Pig Heart. Scientists Have a Plan to Make It Last
With any organ transplant, doctors are trying to balance how to prevent infections while tamping down the immune system. Without
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The Secret of How Cells Make ‘Dark Oxygen’ Without Light
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Scientists have come to realize that in the soil and
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Inside the Race to Stop a Deadly Viral Outbreak in India
On the morning of September 11, critical care specialist Anoop Kumar was presented with an unusual situation. Four members of
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NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth
Seven years after it left for the near-Earth asteroid Bennu, NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is returning with a celestial souvenir. On
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A New Proof Moves the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. In 1917, the Japanese mathematician Sōichi Kakeya posed what at
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Radiation Is Everywhere. But It’s Not All Bad
For many of the sources you encounter in everyday life, the amount of radiation is so low that you don’t
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Is It Real or Imagined? Here’s How Your Brain Tells the Difference
What is clear is that the brain must be able to accurately regulate how strong a mental image is to
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