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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory may have just discovered our solar system’s sixth dwarf planet

Congratulations to Pluto, Ceres, Eris, Haumea and Makemake—there may be a new sibling to welcome into the dwarf planet family. On Tuesday astronomers at the Vera C. Rubin Observatory announced.

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Christina Applegate says she was misdiagnosed with MS—how could that happen?

Actress Christina Applegate’s announcement on Tuesday that she was misdiagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in 2021 immediately made headlines. Her experience, while not the norm, is far from unusual, experts.

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Hurricane Isaias shows ‘it only takes one’ to wreak havoc after historically calm Atlantic hurricane season

Hurricane Isaias may have arrived late in the Atlantic hurricane season, but the torrential rains and 105-mile-per-hour winds the storm brought to the U.S. Gulf Coast over the weekend were.

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OpenAI unleashes hundreds more math results upon a field already in shock

The floodgates are open. Right on the heels of OpenAI’s new large language model producing the biggest math breakthrough in two decades, the company just released no less than 372.

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Blockbuster retatrutide trial signals a ‘new high-water mark’ for weight-loss drugs

Next-generation weight-loss drugs just hit a new milestone: In a phase 3 clinical trial, retatrutide helped people with type 2 diabetes lose an average of up to 49.6 pounds, or.

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Scientists discover largest new impact crater in the solar system ever—on our moon

The moon has no shortage of craters. But a newly discovered pit discovered by NASA scientists has proven to be the cosmic equivalent of a needle in a haystack. Each.

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What even is an AI kill switch?

Calls to slow the development of frontier artificial intelligence, the industry’s most powerful models, have grown much louder in the past week. One idea keeps coming up as a way.

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This cosmic particle was never meant to reach Earth. Now scientists think they finally know why it did

Pineapple on pizza and rain on weekends shouldn’t exist on Earth, yet somehow they do. And a mysterious cosmic particle that was detected in 2022 shouldn’t have made it to.

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House passes stopgap bill that pauses changes to federal science grant-making process

A Trump administration effort to give political figures control over a large swath of U.S. science funding is off the table until at least December. On Tuesday members of the.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX to expand beyond Texas Starbase with new Louisiana spaceport dedicated to Starship

Elon Musk’s SpaceX is ready to expand its horizons beyond its Starbase in South Texas. On Tuesday the company announced it will build a spaceport in Louisiana dedicated to launching.

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