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outbreaks of Oropouche virus have flared up in the Amazon for decades, but historically the pathogen has little troubled the…

The awards ceremony for the Nobel prizes took place in December this year, celebrating both work relating to artificial intelligence…

Colour, smell, taste and chemical constituents can all be used to distinguish whiskiesJane Barlow/PA Images/Alamy Artificial intelligence can tell Scotch…

In the middle of November, roughly four weeks ago, the first of a deluge of reports appeared complaining of large…

The United States has now seen dozens of human bird flu cases this year, all of them mild—until now.The Centers…

December 18, 20243 min readWill the World’s First Nuclear Fusion Power Plant Be Built in Virginia? Here’s Why We’re SkepticalThe…

Molecular testing can be used to assess drink qualityEvgenii Parilov/Alamy Drinks manufacturers and consumers may soon have a small, portable…

An Alabama woman has become the third person to receive a kidney transplant from a genetically engineered pig, her doctors…

December 17, 20243 min readScience-Based Tips for Making Your Christmas Tree LastO Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, where’s your instruction manual? Here’s…

Plastic food packaging can expose people to chemicals such as bisphenol A (BPA)Shutterstock/Trong Nguyen Hundreds of thousands of deaths and…

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For thousands of years, if you wanted to send a secret…

A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose…

A Red Cross worker spraying chlorine-based disinfectant in Goma in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2024MOISE KASEREKA/EPA-EFE/Shutterstock…

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The number of people who read for fun appears…

Luigi Mangione, the 26-year-old suspect accused of killing UnitedHealthcare chief executive Brian Thompson on a midtown Manhattan sidewalk, allegedly took…

Drill rig in Nebraska run by Natural Hydrogen Energy LLC, which established its first hydrogen borehole in 2019Viacheslav Zgonnik For…