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Taking the blame off El Niño
“Even the taxidermied raccoons upstairs have heard of El Niño,” said Emily Becker, pacing the stage in the American Museum of Natural History’s planetarium. Laughter echoed from the 200 or so people in attendance at the New York museum’s first SciCafe of the season. Many were…
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Ear infection? A new AI model may have the diagnosis
A new AI tool can help rule out ear infections in young children, according to a new study , assisting doctors in diagnosis and allowing researchers to further test its abilities at home. Researchers at Turku University Hospital in Finland trained the computer model to sort…
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How some New York City bats are surviving a deadly epidemic
White-nose syndrome has killed millions of bats in the two decades since it was detected in caves in upstate New York. Some species’ numbers have plummeted by more than 90%. As the epidemic has spread across the United States, biologists have been hard at work developing ways to…
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Showing without seeing
When Kadiatou Diakite closes her eyes, it’s as if a light switch turns on. When she opens them, it turns off. Diakite has been blind since birth. For her, seeing has nothing to do with vision. She sees through touch, smell, taste, sound. “These are my eyes,” she says in director…
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Even one psychedelic dose might ease depressive symptoms
A single dose of psilocybin may reduce severe depression symptoms, even for the nearly 100 million people globally who haven’t responded to conventional treatments, according to a new study in the UK. The authors, who did not respond to multiple requests for comment, wrote that…
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Are uterus transplants a replacement for surrogacy?
In August, an Alaskan woman traveled to Texas, where abortion is banned, to give birth to a baby against the wishes of the intended parents . McKenna West was serving as a surrogate for a California couple who wanted her to terminate the pregnancy after doctors detected a heart…
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As endangered species protections falter, national parks take on newfound importance
There’s a network of invisible lines dividing America’s wild places. These boundaries cut through trees and across mountains, crisscrossing deserts and swamps alike, with wildlife paying them no mind. But when this line is the boundary of a national park, crossing it can…
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Near Grand Canyon National Park, a uranium mine raises fears of arsenic in the water
Pinyon Plain Mine , one of the highest grade uranium mines in the U.S., sits just 8.7 miles south of the Grand Canyon. Although uranium fuels nuclear energy, a low-carbon source of electricity, what lies beneath the mine has long been a source of concern. Concentrations of…
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Two U.S. economists win Nobel for work incorporating consumers’ views into boom-bust predictions
Two U.S. economists won the 2026 Nobel Prize today in economics for creating new models that help stabilize countries in tough financial times. Robert Hall and Michael Woodford updated a classic economic theory after the 1970s oil crisis, restructuring the question of supply and…
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Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Navi Pillay for enforcing human rights protections in international law
The 2026 Nobel Peace Prize has been awarded to human rights lawyer Navanethem ‘Navi’ Pillay for her lifelong efforts to combat war crimes and promote peace. Currently serving as an ad hoc judge on the International Court of Justice in Myanmar’s Rohingya genocide case, Pillay’s…
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Anne Carson wins Nobel Prize in Literature for her genre-bending writing
At the same hour that she was being awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Literature by the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, the Canadian poet, essayist and scholar Anne Carson was sweeping the floorboards of her home in Reykjavik, Iceland, and ignoring the calls blowing up her phone.…
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Two chemists win 2026 Nobel Prize for solution to ‘mirror image’ problem
Henri B. Kagan, a 95-year-old French scientist, and Kenso Soai, a 76-year-old Japanese scientist, were awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in chemistry today for their work on manipulating a mirrored molecule’s chemical reaction. “ Many molecules occur in two different versions. Like…
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Francis Halzen awarded 2026 Nobel Prize for detecting neutrinos with Antarctic ice
Francis Halzen was awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physics on Tuesday for pioneering the study of high-energy neutrinos. Neutrinos are the most abundant particle in the universe. They’re produced during nuclear reactions and come from nearly everything — stars, black holes, the…
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Three scientists win the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for a neuronal ‘light-switch’
Karl Deisseroth , Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel have been awarded the 2026 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering a way to activate and deactivate specific neurons in the brain using light. “Neuroscientists dreamed of a neuronal switch, a tool to turn specific…
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National park rangers have a mental health problem. Could it get worse?
Last May, Jace Ritchey, a ranger with the Muir Woods National Monument, handed in their resignation because the job that was a dream for almost six years now felt unsafe. Being a ranger with the National Park Service (NPS) had always been physically and emotionally demanding,…