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Topic: Science (page 12)

Sierra Nevada Mountains (Getty Images/Alex Potemkin)

Lawsuit halts mining in Sierra Nevadas

Elizabeth Hlavinka
This artist’s impression shows the pulsar PSR J1023+0038 stealing gas from its companion star. (ESO/M. Kornmesser)

Dead star burps cosmic cannonballs

Elizabeth Hlavinka
An Indian paramilitary trooper stands guard as a live telecast is aired near a clock tower in Srinagar on August 23, 2023, showing the Chandrayaan-3 spacecraft minutes before its successful lunar landing on the south pole of the Moon. (TAUSEEF MUSTAFA/AFP via Getty Images)

Why India's moon lander matters

Mariel Borowitz - The Conversation
Person reading online news on a smartphone and laptop (Getty Images/oatawa)

Defending against online disinformation

Gary N. Smith
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Amazon rainforest, Brazil (Getty Images)

High heat can stop plant photosynthesis

Katie Myers - Grist
Ouroboros and binary code (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Untangling the AI ouroboros

Rae Hodge
Blood bag (Getty/pictorico)

Staking out the Silicon Valley vampires

Rae Hodge
Climeworks' DAC plant "Orca", Iceland, in the night (Climeworks)

Will carbon removal tech actually work?

Elizabeth Hlavinka
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SpaceX CEO Elon Musk (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

DOJ cites Musk tweets, sues SpaceX

Rae Hodge
Vlad III, Prince of Wallachia (1431-1477) posthumously dubbed Vlad the Impaler, Voivode of Wallachia (1456-1462). (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Dracula may have wept blood: study

Rae Hodge
Psyche asteroid in space (Getty Images/24K-Production/NASA)

What NASA’s Psyche mission may reveal

Jim Bell - The Conversation
Formed by a star throwing off its outer layers as it runs out of fuel, the Ring Nebula is an archetypal planetary nebula. Also known as M57 and NGC 6720, it is relatively close to Earth at roughly 2,500 light-years away. (ESA/Webb, NASA, CSA, M. Barlow (UCL), N. Cox (ACRI-ST), R. Wesson (Cardiff University))

Ring Nebula revealed by Webb telescope

Rae Hodge
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This artist's concept shows a face-on view of the XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) spacecraft. (NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center Conceptual Image Lab)

New X-ray telescope to be launched

Rae Hodge
anti-diabetic medication "Ozempic" (JOEL SAGET/AFP via Getty Images)

Ozempic's hidden dangers

Fady Shanouda, Michael Orsini - The Conversation
Handguns that were swapped for gift cards during a Los Angeles Police Department sponsored gun buyback event in Los Angeles, California on December 13, 2014. (MARK RALSTON/AFP via Getty Images)

Gun violence is a public health crisis

Dan Falk - Undark
This artist impression shows HD 45166, a massive star recently discovered to have a powerful magnetic field of 43 000 gauss, the strongest magnetic field ever found in a massive star. (ESO/L. Calçada)

New magnetic type of star discovered

Rae Hodge
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(Getty/George Clerk)

A memoir in praise of complex science

Mark Harris - Undark
Satellite image of Hurricane Katia (left) making landfall over the Mexican state of Veracruz, Hurricane Irma (center) approaching Cuba, and Hurricane Jose reaching peak intensity on September 8, 2017. (HUM Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Prepare for aggressive hurricane season

Rae Hodge
Long COVID (Getty Images/wildpixel)

Why are we still ignoring long COVID?

Philip Finkelstein
Image concept of magnetic levitating above a high-temperature superconductor, cooled with liquid nitrogen (Getty Images/ktsimage)

What's so super about superconductors?

Rae Hodge
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In this image obtained from the County of Maui, a wildfire burns on the island of Maui near an intersection at Hokiokio Place and Lahaina Bypass in Lahaina, Hawaii, August 9, 2023. (Photo courtesy of County of Maui / Zeke Kalua)

Hawaiian fires leave at least six dead

Rae Hodge
Common pipistrelle (Pipistrellus pipistrellus) in flight (Getty Images/imageBROKER/Dieter Mahlke)

Solar farms drive away bats

Elizabeth Hlavinka
The Hunters in the Snow by Pieter Brueghel the Elder, 1565 (Wiki Commons)

The Little Ice Age and climate change

Matthew Rozsa
Aerial View City in the US | Cancer Cell (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

Are humans a cancer on the planet?

Troy Farah
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