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What Counts As Ultra-Processed Food? It’s Too Complicated.

What Counts As Ultra-Processed Food? It’s Too Complicated.
22.03.2025 6

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Got $10 Billion? Don’t Blow It Cloning a Woolly Mammoth.

15.03.2025 8

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You Might Have Plastic in Your Brain. Don’t Panic — Yet.

20.02.2025 7

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Bird Flu Is a Big Threat. The US Needs to Start Acting Like It.

13.02.2025 20

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Who Will Speak for the Trees?

27.01.2025 3

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What Longhorn Crazy Ants Can Teach Us About Groupthink

When scientists constructed a puzzle-solving task and pitted teams of people against teams of ants, the insects sometimes proved to be the smarter...

17.01.2025 30

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Black Spatula Saga Shows the Danger of Hyping Science

Last month, a bungled health warning over black plastic spatulas didn’t help faltering trust in science. First, researchers warned us to throw away...

01.01.2025 5

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The 10 Most Intriguing Science Breakthroughs of 2024

It was a bad year for good news, but only because the tumult and drama surrounding the 2024 US election and ongoing wars overshadowed some of the...

29.12.2024 10

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Another Pandemic Is Inevitable, and We’re Not Ready

Every week or so, scientists issue another warning that the H5N1 bird flu is inching closer to exploding into a pandemic. Despite having contended...

17.12.2024 9

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Don’t Let RFK Jr. Distract From the Big Health Threat: Sugar

Are there “toxic chemicals” in food killing Americans? That fear is getting lots of attention thanks to Robert F. Kennedy Jr., President-elect...

05.12.2024 10

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There Are Much Bigger Threats to Whales Than Windmills

President-elect Donald Trump has used saving whales, of all things, as a reason he has promised to shut down all US offshore wind energy projects...

01.12.2024 3

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Why Trump, a Liar, Seems Honest to His Supporters

On the eve of Election Day, anthropology professor Alexander Hinton talked to me from a Trump rally, where he was already convinced the Republican...

09.11.2024 3

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Bird Flu in Pigs Is One Step Closer to Endangering Humans

When the USDA issued an announcement on Oct. 30 that the worrisome H5N1 bird flu turned up in a pig, I dropped what I was doing to read it. The...

02.11.2024 10

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‘I Don't Know’ Is the Best Weapon Science Has Right Now

When Covid hit the US and many public health experts were trying to act strong and confident, epidemiologist Michael Osterholm took a different...

09.10.2024 30

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Lock Down the Cows to Prevent Further Bird Flu Spread

The bird flu may be entering a dangerous new phase. The risk that any given person will be sickened or die remains low, but the risk of this virus...

27.09.2024 2

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We Just Got a Wake-Up Call From the Time Before Dinosaurs

Scientists have pieced together enough clues to Earth’s past climate to graph the average temperature from 485 million years ago to the present —...

19.09.2024 2

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The First Lyme Disease Vaccine Failed. It's Time to Try Again.

Nearly half a million Americans received an unpleasant surprise this summer, according to insurance billing data: a new diagnosis of Lyme disease....

16.09.2024 8

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AI Can Debunk Conspiracy Theories Better Than Humans

Scientists surprised themselves when they found they could instruct a version of ChatGPT to gently dissuade people of their beliefs in conspiracy...

14.09.2024 4

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Elle Macpherson’s Cancer Battle Is Different From Yours

When celebrities go public with their diagnoses of cancer or other diseases, they’re often lauded as courageous for raising awareness and making...

07.09.2024 3

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Too Many Emails? Tame Your Inbox by Thinking Like a Monkey

If you’re confronting an endless string of unread emails after a long weekend or summer vacation, try thinking of responding as a game. A status...

05.09.2024 3

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If Killing One Species Might Save Another, Should We Do It?

It’s routine practice for government officials to kill animals deemed invasive or destructive. For the most part, Americans accept this or look the...

24.08.2024 2

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The Oldest Olympians Might Hold the Key to Slowing Aging

Olympic competitors over 40 are inspiring — and less of a rarity than they used to be. Scientists say athletes with extreme staying power may be...

10.08.2024 3

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Olympic Boxer's Gender Is a Manufactured Controversy

When Italian boxer Angela Carini reported that she had “never felt a punch like that” after conceding to Algeria’s Imane Khelif 46 seconds after...

05.08.2024 1

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Drinking’s Cancer Link Is Underrated — Especially by Women

Now that the vast majority of Americans don’t smoke, it’s hard to know what we’re supposed to do about the recent news that 40% of cancer cases are...

03.08.2024 3

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Deep-Sea Mining May Be Necessary for a Greener Future

Mining the deep oceans for cobalt, nickel, rare earths and other metals could accelerate the world’s conversion to renewable power sources. These...

30.07.2024 2

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Guns Aren’t as Good for Self-Defense as America Thinks

A couple of hours before a young man shot an AR-15 rifle at former President Donald Trump, killing one bystander and wounding others, I had been...

19.07.2024 1

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