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A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

Quantum Computing

A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems

Stephen Ornes

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System

Charging Up

Grid-Scale Battery Storage Is Quietly Revolutionizing the Energy System

Umair Irfan

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars

Red Planet

NASA’s Perseverance Rover Finds Strange Rocks on Mars

Shigeyuki Hando

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

Public Health

Scientists Find Measles Likely To Become Endemic in the US Over Next 20 Years

Emily Mullin

Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is

Book Excerpt

Muscle Memory Isn’t What You Think It Is

Bonnie Tsui

Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently

Long-Term Parking

Finland Could Be the First Country in the World to Bury Nuclear Waste Permanently

Marta Abbà

Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs

GLP-1 Revolution

Eli Lilly Sues 4 GLP-1 Telehealth Startups, Escalating War on Knockoff Drugs

Kate Knibbs and Emily Mullin

This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem

Conservation

This Artificial Wetland Is Reusing Wastewater to Revive a Lost Ecosystem

Geraldine Castro

Space

Scientists Are Mapping the Bizarre, Chaotic Spacetime Inside Black Holes

Lyndie Chiou

As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool

Heat Stress

As Summer Approaches, Federal Cuts Threaten Program to Keep Vulnerable People Cool

Naveena Sadasivam

Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception

Neuroscience

Scientists Think They’ve Found the Region of the Brain That Regulates Conscious Perception

Jorge Garay

FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say

Unpreparedness

FEMA Isn’t Ready for Disaster Season, Workers Say

Molly Taft

Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory

Urine Trouble

Thousands of Urine and Tissue Samples Are in Danger of Rotting After Staff Cuts at a CDC Laboratory

Caroline Haskins

Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Truth Is Out There

Scientists Find Promising Indication of Extraterrestrial Life—124 Light-Years Away

Jorge Garay

Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow

Public Health

Measles Cases Are Rising. Other Preventable Diseases Could Follow

Emily Mullin

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

DOGE Cuts Pull AmeriCorps Volunteers Off of Disaster Relief Jobs

Molly Taft

The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It

Big Pitch

The Wild Plan to Terraform Mars by Slamming Asteroids Into It

Jorge Garay

‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Longevity

‘We Are Not Programmed to Die,’ Says Nobel Laureate Venki Ramakrishnan

Sandro Iannaccone

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Artificial Intelligence

Small Language Models Are the New Rage, Researchers Say

Stephen Ornes

Proposed NASA Budget Cuts ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’

Scrubbed

Proposed NASA Budget Cuts ‘Would Decimate American Leadership in Space’

Eric Berger, Ars Technica