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COVID Deaths Decline, but Vaccine Access Remains Uneven in the U.S.

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Covid-19 vaccine benefits worth up to $38 trillion in first year alone

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Freaky ‘’Rubber Hand’ Illusion’ Works on Octopuses, Too

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What it’s like to run the world’s best dark matter detector

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Mondays Really Are More Stressful on the Brain and Body

For decades the term “Monday blues” has been shorthand for the collective…

Modular nuclear reactors sound great, but won’t be ready any time soon

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Nixing Daylight Saving Time May Lower Risk of Obesity and Stroke

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How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars

Astronomy is the oldest science, and the sky is among our first…

The oldest human mummies were slowly smoked 14,000 years ago

Left: The remains of a middle-aged woman at the Liyupo site in…