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An Experimental Obesity Pill Mimics Gastric Bypass Surgery

An Experimental Obesity Pill Mimics Gastric Bypass Surgery

A novel drug that produces a temporary coating in the small intestine could be a new strategy for weight loss—and an alternative t...

Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late

Donald Trump Wants to Save the Coal Industry. He’s Too Late

An executive order intended to give coal a boost ignores the reality not only of where energy markets are going, but where they ar...

Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf

Scientists Claim to Have Brought Back the Dire Wolf

Startup Colossal Biosciences has edited the DNA of a gray wolf to produce what it says is a de-extincted animal. Does that make it...

An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous

An IVF Alternative Could Make Having Babies Less Onerous

Startup Gameto has developed a technique for maturing eggs outside the body that’s showing promise at helping patients get pregnan...

States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back

States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back

As states legislate against products containing PFAS, the chemical and consumer products industries are deploying lawyers and lobb...

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

Math and computer science researchers have long known that some questions are fundamentally unanswerable. Now physicists are explo...

Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Multiple US states have logged record pollen counts this spring, with climate change likely to blame.

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

A successful reflight of SpaceX's Super Heavy booster would be an important milestone for its Starship program.

Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot

Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot

Baseball season just started, and everyone’s talking about these crazy new bats. Will they change the game?

In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls

In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls

Using environmental DNA analysis and traditional fishing techniques, researchers are seeking answers about the current population ...

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US’s leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Tr...

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

Ten years ago, researchers proved that adding full memory can theoretically aid computation. They’re just now beginning to underst...

US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court

US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court

After a string of discouraging rulings for other cities, a court upheld NYC’s efforts to decarbonize its buildings.

Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility

Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility

In an advance for treating male infertility, researchers transplanted a patient with his own sperm-forming stem cells that were co...

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

The Japanese singer-songwriter’s new album goes deep on their “fascination with science.” WIRED Japan took Hikaru Utada to visit t...

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

Scientific experiments run today are based on research practices that evolved out of a British tea-tasting experiment in the 1920s...

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Modern society, and the clean energy revolution, depend on rare earth elements. Can Greenland help break China’s stranglehold on t...

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

The core stage of NASA’s Space Launch System is now integrated with the rocket’s twin boosters.

Japan Loses Top Creditor Status for First Time in 34 Years

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Japan Loses Top Creditor Status for First Time in 34 Years

ECB Rate-Cutting Cycle Is Probably Almost Finished, Muller S...

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ECB Rate-Cutting Cycle Is Probably Almost Finished, Muller Says

Swiss Inflation Turns Negative for First Time in Four Years

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Swiss Inflation Turns Negative for First Time in Four Years

China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countr...

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China forms new global mediation group with dozens of countries

ECB Officials Expect July Pause With Some Seeing 2% as End P...

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ECB Officials Expect July Pause With Some Seeing 2% as End Point

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