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The EPA Will Likely Gut Team That Studies Health Risks From Chemicals
In early May, the Environmental Protection Agency announced that it would split up the agency’s main arm devoted to scientific research. According to...
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Dismantling NOAA Threatens the World’s Ability to Monitor Carbon Dioxide Levels
Even in the best of times, long-term observations can be very fragile. It is difficult to convince funding agencies to put money into...
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Why Pigeons at Rest Are at the Center of Complexity Theory
By January 2020, Papadimitriou had been thinking about the pigeonhole principle for 30 years. So he was surprised when a playful conversation with...
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What Caused the European Power Outage?
The causes of the power outage that left millions in Spain and Portugal without electricity on Monday have yet to be fully determined,...
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States and Startups Are Suing the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission
American nuclear is in 25-year-old Isaiah Taylor’s blood: his great-grandfather worked on the Manhattan Project. In 2023, Taylor, who dropped out of high...
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As Measles Cases Surge, Mexico Issues a US Travel Alert
As the US struggles to contain its worst measles outbreak in years, cases have spilled over into Mexico. In an April 25 report,...
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A New Quantum Algorithm Speeds Up Solving a Huge Class of Problems
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.For computer scientists, solving problems is a bit like mountaineering. First they must choose...
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