Science
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55How to Kill HIV: Target Its “Influencers”
In just about any system or group, elements with a larger number of connections tend to have more clout than others. Think...
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46The Sun Is Stranger Than Astrophysicists Imagined
The sun radiates far more high-frequency light than expected, raising questions about unknown features of the sun’s magnetic field and the possibility...
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67Why Are There Religious Exemptions for Vaccines?
This week the City of New York declared a public health emergency because of a measles outbreak that had been escalating since...
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76‘We’ve now seen the unseeable’: Black hole photographed for 1st time
Black holes have been mysterious and elusive — until now. Astronomers using the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) have, for the first time, photographed one. “We’ve now seen the...
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76NY measles outbreak spotlights religious exemptions from vaccine
HAVERSTRAW, New York (AFP) — Patricia Schnabel Ruppert, the health commissioner of an outlying New York suburban county, is feeling “overwhelmed.” Since...
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100Two unusual galaxies shake up the dark matter debate, again
WHEN IT COMES to the nature of dark matter, astronomers are still largely, well, in the dark. The existence of this mysterious substance was...