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This year’s flu shot was up to 78% effective at preventing hospitalization in kids, early data finds
This year’s flu shots have dramatically reduced hospitalizations for seasonal influenza, early data suggest. For kids and teens, the shots ...
Can we find floating vegetation on ocean planets?
Astronomical surveys have discovered nearly 6,000 exoplanets, including many habitable planets, which may harbor liquid water on their surfaces. The ...
Carbon removal is the next big fossil fuel boom, oil company says
Occidental, the oil giant that has tried to fashion itself as a climate tech leader, is being real clear now ...
Starlink poised to take over $2.4 billion contract to overhaul air traffic control communication
While Elon Musk hacks away at the federal bureaucracy in the name of “efficiency,” his company Starlink appears poised to ...
DOGE’s Chaos Reaches Antarctica | WIRED
Staffers have already pushed back. “People have been painting waste bins saying “Antarctica is for ALL” in rainbow, people’s email ...
Trump plan to freeze funding stymies Biden-era energy rebates for consumers
Westend61 | Westend61 | Getty Images Some states have stopped disbursing funds to consumers via Biden-era rebate programs tied to ...
‘Utterly cataclysmic’: James Webb telescope spots 2 alien planets disintegrating before our eyes
Astronomers have directly observed two worlds beyond our solar system shedding their outer layers into space for the first time. ...
First female runner could soon break the 4-minute-mile barrier
On May 6, 1954, Roger Bannister pushed through the finishing tape at Iffley Road track in Oxford, England, and collapsed ...
Freedom of speech is ‘on the line’ in a pivotal Dakota Access Pipeline trial
A pivotal trial over the embattled Dakota Access Pipeline opens today that could have grave consequences for protests in the ...
SpaceX thinks it knows why Starship exploded on its last test flight
The goal of the seventh test flight was to test several upgrades SpaceX made to its heavy-lift rocket system. After ...
