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U.S. fishing industries, both commercial and recreational, rely on healthy coastal areas. Wolfgang Kaehler/LightRocket via Getty Images

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Coastal economies rely on NOAA, from Maine to Florida, Texas and Alaska – even if they don’t realize it

Staff Writer - February 28, 2025

A worker deices an airplane at the airport in Brussels. AP Photo/Virginia Mayo

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The science behind airplane deicing – a mechanical engineer explains how chemistry and physics make flying a more uplifting experience

The creative process involves choices that lead artists to places they couldn’t have imagined. Eoneren/E+ via Getty Images

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Generative AI is most useful for the things we care about the least

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made it his life’s mission to delay aging and death. Netflix

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The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught with moral peril

Can a person love an AI chatbot? RLT_Images/DigitalVision Vectors via Getty Images

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Teenagers turning to AI companions are redefining love as easy, unconditional and always there

A student works on a design in a fashion merchandising lab. Fashion Merchandising Labs at Oklahoma State University, CC BY-ND

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How AI can help in the creative design process

Staff Writer - February 9, 2025

AI coding handles the hard parts for nonprogrammers. Andriy/Moment via Getty Images

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AI gives nonprogrammers a boost in writing computer code

Staff Writer - February 2, 2025

Of the tens of thousands of grant applications submitted to the National Institutes of Health, only around 1 in 5 is funded. Sean Gladwell/Moment via Getty Images

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Medical research depends on government money – even a day’s delay...

Staff Writer - January 28, 2025

A treatment typically lasts from three to 15 minutes. Rich Legg/E+ via Getty Images

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Red light therapy shows promise for pain relief, inflammation and skin...

Staff Writer - January 24, 2025

The lunar south pole’s terrain is rugged, and it can reach extreme temperatures. Michael Karrer/Flickr, CC BY-NC

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Astronauts on NASA’s Artemis mission to the Moon will need better...

Staff Writer - January 20, 2025

When it comes to slowing down China’s tech rise, tariffs won’t do the trick. Costfoto/NurPhoto via Getty Images

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China tech shrugged off Trump’s ‘trade war’ − there’s no reason...

Staff Writer - January 17, 2025

Inside the target chamber at the National Ignition Facility, where researchers work on getting higher energy outputs from fusion power. Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Lawrence Livermore National Security, LLC, and the Department of Energy − National Ignition Facility

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Nuclear fusion could one day be a viable clean energy source...

Staff Writer - January 8, 2025

A high drug failure rate is more than just a pattern recognition problem. Thom Leach/Science Photo Library via Getty Images

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Will AI revolutionize drug development? Researchers explain why it depends on...

Staff Writer - January 5, 2025

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Parts of the North Fork of the Kentucky River flooded in July 2022, and again in February 2025. Arden S. Barnes/For The Washington Post via Getty Images

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Why people rebuild in Appalachia’s flood-ravaged areas despite the risks

Staff Writer - February 26, 2025

Kristina P. Brant, Penn State On Valentine’s Day 2025, heavy rains started to fall in parts of rural Appalachia....

In the toxic male technique, genetically engineered male insects would implant semen containing toxic venom into the female insects during mating. Madugrero/Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA

Making sex deadly for insects could control pests that carry disease...

February 23, 2025

Tech entrepreneur Bryan Johnson has made it his life’s mission to delay aging and death. Netflix

The quest to extend human life is both fascinating and fraught...

February 23, 2025

Greenland has large deposits of rare earth minerals along its coasts, but these are also geologically hazardous regions. Alex Hibbert/The Image Bank via Getty Images

Greenland’s rapidly melting ice and landslide-prone fjords make the oil and...

February 19, 2025

National Institutes of Health indirect costs, which are under the knife, go toward managing laboratories and facilities. Fei Yang/Moment via Getty Images

Cutting funding for science can have consequences for the economy, US...

February 17, 2025