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  1. Meteorites give the Moon its extremely thin atmosphere

    Impacts that vaporize bits of the lunar surface maintain the Moon's thin atmosphere.

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  2. Explosion of cicada-eating mites has the state of Illinois scratching

    The good news: There's little risk beyond the rash. The bad: The rash is awful.

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  3. Passing part of a medical licensing exam doesn’t make ChatGPT a good doctor

    The software's medical certification exam was OK, but its diagnoses aren't.

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  4. Rocket Report: ULA is losing engineers; SpaceX is launching every two days

    The first missions of Stoke Space's reusable Nova rocket will fly in expendable mode.

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  5. Medicare drug price negotiations: 10 list prices drop between 38% to 79%

    If the prices were set in 2023, Medicare would have saved $6 billion.

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  6. An asteroid wiped out the dinosaurs, not a comet, new study finds

    Analysis of ruthenium isotopes showed the impactor was a carbonaceous-type asteroid.

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  7. Facing “financial crisis,” Russia on pace for lowest launch total in 6 decades

    "This forces us to build a new economy in severe conditions."

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  8. NASA acknowledges it cannot quantify risk of Starliner propulsion issues

    "We don’t have enough insight and data to make some sort of simple black-and-white calculation."

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  9. Mpox outbreak is an international health emergency, WHO declares

    The declaration is "the highest level of alarm under international health law."

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  10. NASA shuts down asteroid-hunting telescope, but a better one is on the way

    The NEOWISE spacecraft is on a course to fall out of orbit in the next few months.

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  11. Scientists solved mysterious origin of Stonehenge’s Altar Stone: Scotland

    The stone's chemical fingerprint closely matches old red sandstone from Orkney region.

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  12. The fish with the genome 30 times larger than ours gets sequenced

    Every 10 million years, lungfish have added a human genome's worth of junk DNA.

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  1. Exotic eye worm rapidly invades US by spreading from testes of fruit flies

    The spread to bears shows the worm is gaining ground and new hosts in the US.

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  2. “Slapped cheek” virus is surging across Europe and US, CDC warns

    It's often mild, but can be very dangerous in pregnancy and immunocompromised.

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  3. NASA chief to scientists on budget cuts: “I feel your pain”

    "I can't go and print the dollars."

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  4. Researchers figure out how to keep clocks on the Earth, Moon in sync

    A single standardized Earth/Moon time would aid communications, enable lunar GPS.

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  5. Why cricket’s latest bowling technique is so effective against batters

    Wind tunnel experiments show how the ball's transverse spin impacts pressure fields.

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  6. SpaceX announces first human mission to ever fly over the planet’s poles

    The highest-inclination flight by a human spacecraft to date is 65.1 degrees.

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  7. MDMA for PTSD: Three studies retracted on heels of FDA rejection

    The company behind the therapy says it will appeal the FDA's decision.

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  8. Studying the skin of the great white shark could help reduce drag in aircraft

    High-ridged denticles reduce drag at low speeds; alternating ridges do so at high speeds.

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  9. I trust NASA’s safety culture this time around, and so should you

    "The lessons of Columbia have not been forgotten."

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  10. NASA is about to make its most important safety decision in nearly a generation

    Three Starliner mission managers had key roles on Columbia's ill-fated final flight.

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  11. 520-million-year-old larva fossil reveals the origins of arthropods

    Early arthropod development illuminated by a microscopic fossil.

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  12. Pass the mayo: Condiment could help improve fusion energy yields

    Controlling a problematic instability could lead to cheaper internal fusion.

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  1. People game AIs via game theory

    They reject more of the AI's offers, probably to get it to be more generous.

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  2. “Archeology” on the ISS helps identify what astronauts really need

    Regular photography shows a tool shed and more isolated toilet would be appreciated.

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  3. China’s Long March 6A rocket is making a mess in low-Earth orbit

    After nearly every flight, the upper stage of this rocket breaks apart in orbit.

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  4. Rocket Report: Archimedes engine sees first light, New Glenn making moves

    "Coming soon: a full recovery rehearsal with our landing vessel."

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  5. Another death in nationwide outbreak that spurred massive meat recall

    The outbreak tally has increased to 43 amid recall of 7 million pounds of meat.

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  6. PrivacyLens uses thermal imaging to turn people into stick figures

    "Most consumers do not think about what happens to data collected by smart home devices."

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  7. String of record hot months came to an end in July

    July had the two hottest days recorded but fell 0.04° Celsius short of last year.

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  8. A new report finds Boeing’s rockets are built with an unqualified work force

    NASA declines to penalize Boeing for the deficiencies.

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  9. NASA official acknowledges internal “disagreement” on safety of Starliner return

    "We heard from a lot of folks that had concerns."

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  10. New mpox outbreak raises alarm; WHO considers declaring international emergency

    A different clade of mpox than the previous outbreak is spilling out of the DRC.

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  11. 31% of Republicans say vaccines are more dangerous than diseases they prevent

    The partisan divide on vaccine falsehoods threatens the health of children nationwide.

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  12. Broadway embraces particle physics with musical about Higgs boson discovery

    The 2013 documentary Particle Fever is being turned into a Broadway musical.

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