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Anti-vaccine Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and his supporters have long dismissed measles as "just a rash," but declining…

At 93, vaccine pioneer Stanley Plotkin expresses regret over living to see eroding vaccine confidence, highlighting a deep frustration with…

The Trump administration issued an executive order last August that would give political appointees final authority over grant funding decisions,…

Blue Origin's New Glenn rocket explosion has largely destroyed its only orbital-class launch pad at Cape Canaveral, leading to an…

Researchers have experimentally demonstrated randomness amplification for the first time, a process that refines imperfect random bits from quantum systems…

The Trump administration withdrew funding from the NIH's CREID Network, a pandemic preparedness program studying viruses like Ebola, partly due…

A new study in "Science" suggests homing pigeons use iron-rich immune cells (macrophages) in their livers to detect Earth's magnetic…

LLMs suffer from "negation neglect," learning false statements from statistical patterns in training data even when those statements are explicitly…

While lithium-ion batteries dominate due to massive cost-effective production infrastructure, a potential supply shortage of economically extractable lithium could shift…

An experimental gene-editing therapy, VERVE-102, appeared safe in a Phase I trial with no serious adverse events, though a temporary…

The 2026 Atlantic hurricane season, starting June 1, is forecast to be quieter than usual with 8-14 named storms, 3-6…

NASA satellites designed for hurricane and ice monitoring can detect the rough location of GPS jammers, helping identify high-risk zones…

The James Webb Space Telescope discovered "little red dots," now identified as ancient supermassive black holes, including one named Abell…

The z386 project by nand2mario is an open-source FPGA implementation of the Intel 80386 that runs the chip's original microcode,…

NASA has awarded contracts to Astrolab and Lunar Outpost to build one-ton rovers for its Moon Base initiative, with delivery…

Earth's breathable atmosphere took billions of years to form, driven by multiple factors including photosynthetic life and the solid Earth's…

China's orbital rocket launches surged from under 20 per year a decade ago to a record 93 last year, making…

Researchers at the University of Chicago created BloomBeacon, a touch-sensitive holographic display that floats in mid-air using persistence-of-vision technology with…

The Ebola outbreak in the DRC's Ituri province is accelerating rapidly, with nearly 750 cases and 177 deaths, making it…

Orbit Robotics has developed Helios, a four-armed robot for space stations that uses two arms for anchoring and two for…