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- Second U.S. Malaria Case Not Tied to Travel Raises Fears of Local Transmissionon August 20, 2025 at 9:30 pm
One-off cases of malaria in the U.S. may become more common as warming temperatures lead to booming mosquito populations
- Tiny Probes Can Surf Sunlight to Explore Earth’s Mesosphere and Marson August 20, 2025 at 2:00 pm
With no fuel or engines, tiny explorers will surf sun-warmed air alone to explore high in the skies of Earth and Mars
- Four Remarkable Stories from the History of Math Behind Barson August 20, 2025 at 11:00 am
People in prisons and jails have contributed to some of the greatest ideas in mathematics
- Nathan Lents’s New Book Explores How Animal Behavior and Evolution Challenge Binary Sex and Gender Normson August 20, 2025 at 10:00 am
Traditional biology has long ignored nature’s sexual diversity—but evolution tells a far more complex story.
- NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Discovers New Moon of Uranuson August 19, 2025 at 8:20 pm
Using the powerful James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have spotted a moon nestled near Uranus’s rings that’s so small you could walk around it