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Pregnant woman with brown hair in a pink hospital gown about to give birth in a bed
Medicine

We don’t really know how many pregnant people are dying in the US

Up to two-thirds of the country's pregnancy-related deaths are preventable. But we need accurate data to provide better maternity care.

Man with neural implant sitting in front of computer screen with text displayed
Technology

New implant helps patient spell out entire sentences using only brain signals

A man who can't physically talk simply needed to think out letters to spell his intended words.

new flex wiring in the cryogenic quantum computer infrastructure
Engineering

IBM’s biggest quantum chip yet could help solve the trickiest math problems

The company figured out how to fit three times more qubits on a quantum computer chip. Here's what's next.

a robot lander covered in orange dust on mars
Mars

Saying goodbye to NASA’s InSight lander before it’s buried in Martian dust

Yet another Mars mission is about to bite the dust.

The WLM galaxy
Space Telescope

New James Webb Space Telescope image shows a secluded galaxy in stellar detail

The lonely dwarf galaxy could teach scientists about the early eras of our own Milky Way.

Smartphone displaying COP27 app logo
Internet

Egypt’s official COP27 summit app may be the ‘cartoon super-villain’ of spyware

Officials say more than 5,000 attendees have downloaded the app requiring unprecedented access to personal data.

Positive COVID blood sample
COVID-19

Getting COVID more than once might be even worse than we thought

A new study finds increased risk of future hospitalization, organ failure, and even death from repeat COVID-19 infections.

How decoding the genome of pearl oysters could save them
Animals

How decoding the genome of pearl oysters could save them

Viruses are hurting Japan's pearl oysters. Now scientists are working to figure out how to make the oysters more resilient.

NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover on the cosmic ‘relay race’ of the new lunar missions
Moons

NASA astronaut Victor J. Glover on the cosmic ‘relay race’ of the new lunar missions

The U.S. Navy test pilot and astronaut reflects on the challenges faced by the Artemis team.

A woman sipping from a teacup while taking a break.
Life Skills

Improve your focus by taking more breaks every day

Whether you need to be merely reminded our outright forced to take breaks, we have advice for you.

How drones are helping monitor Kyrgyzstan’s radioactive legacy
Drones

How drones are helping monitor Kyrgyzstan’s radioactive legacy

An accident in 1958 and more than two decades of uranium mining led to nuclear contamination. Now, airborne monitoring is helping.

Wildfire smoke from across continents is changing the Arctic Ocean’s makeup
Ocean

Wildfire smoke from across continents is changing the Arctic Ocean’s makeup

Increasing wildfires, and the nutrients they bring, could bring more algae blooms to the Arctic Ocean.

Interior of skylights of Apple Store on Fifth Avenue
Internet

Apple knows exactly how much you use its apps

New research reveals a startling level of data monitoring within the App Store and company apps like Books and Apple Music.

a fuzzy bumblebee settles on a pink flower
Biology

Bees can sense a flower’s electric field—unless fertilizer messes with the buzz

Bumblebees are really good at picking up on cues from flowers, even electrical signals.

A hummingbird called black jacobin in flight.
Science

This photographer captures birds as poetry in motion

Six photos from Christian Spencer's 'Poetry in the Sky' reveal the impressionistic splendor of blue and yellow macaws and other birds.

a stage filled with lights and music equipment
AI

This AI can harness sound to reveal the structure of unseen spaces

It's called a neural acoustic field model, and it can also consider what noises would sound like as you traveled through virtual reality.

Female octopuses will chuck seashells at males who irk them
Wildlife

Female octopuses will chuck seashells at males who irk them

The debris-chucking octopuses were caught on camera for the first time in Australia.

Tropical Storm Nicole nears hurricane status as it hurtles toward eastern Florida
Weather

Tropical Storm Nicole nears hurricane status as it hurtles toward eastern Florida

The storm would be the first hurricane to make landfall in the United States during November in 40 years.

Ancient ivory comb shows that self-care is as old as time
Archaeology

Ancient ivory comb shows that self-care is as old as time

The Canaanite comb is inscribed with a warning for tiny lice—the oldest written sentence discovered in the language.

Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg
Social Media

Meta lays off more than 11,000 employees after ‘worst downturn’ in company’s history

The decision, while largely anticipated, comes as Mark Zuckberg continues to sell consumers on the 'metaverse.'