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Six years after COVID-19 first made headlines, an antiviral pill called ensitrelvir, has been shown to lower users’ risk of developing the disease after being exposed to the virus. If approved, the drug could be especially useful to people at high risk of severe COVID-19, such as older adults.
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Don Juan Pond is a lake in Antarctica's extremely cold McMurdo Dry Valleys region that has a salinity above 40%, making it one of the saltiest bodies of water on Earth. The pond contains so much salt, it has a syrupy consistency that never freezes, even though temperatures in the Dry Valleys often fall to minus 58 degrees Fahrenheit (minus 50 degrees Celsius).
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Kids eating boogers gives us the ick, but are they actually onto something? Eating boogers actually has a scientific name and kids aren’t the only ones who do it. Chimpanzees, gorillas, lemurs and the list goes on…🤢
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Starship V3's maiden spaceflight is scheduled for next week as SpaceX prepares to launch the tallest and most powerful rocket ever built.
Its voyage to space will be a big test for SpaceX, which wants to land humans on the moon for NASA in 2028 and hopes to avoid the kind of spectacular explosions that have plagued some previous Starship tests.
The launch window for what will be Starship's 12th test flight opens at 6.30 p.m. EDT at Starbase in southern Texas.
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In a first, researchers have sequenced genetic material from 400,000-year-old Homo erectus fossils — and the results reveal deep genetic links to both modern humans and the enigmatic Denisovans.
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In July 1945, the U.S. detonated the world's first nuclear bomb, "Trinity," in New Mexico. The blast, equivalent to 25,000 tons of TNT, vaporized the drop tower and turned desert sand within a 1,000-foot (300 meters) radius into faintly radioactive, pale-green-and-red glass, later dubbed "trinitite." Now, more than 80 years later, researchers have discovered that some red trinitite contains unique crystals found nowhere else in nature.
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Artificial intelligence (AI) models can autonomously "replicate" across multiple machines, hacking vulnerable systems, copying their own parameters onto compromised hosts, and launching working replicas capable of continuing the attack, new research shows.
However, experts told Live Science the bigger concern is not AI suddenly running wild on its own, but cybercriminals using AI agents to automate known hacking techniques.
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The universe may not be perfectly uniform after all, a new series of papers hints. If confirmed, this could upend a nearly 100-year-old model of cosmology.
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A fish disappearing into a manta ray's butthole was not on anyone's bingo card 😯
The viral footage shows a common remora (Remora remora) swim inside the cloaca of an adult Atlantic manta ray (Mobula yarae) after being startled by a free diver. Researchers describe this behavior as "cloacal diving" that may offer protection from predators, although the manta ray appeared bothered by the abrupt insertion.
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Climate scientists have revealed that last month's sea surface temperatures were the second-warmest for any April on record, reflecting the emergence of El Niño.
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PCOS has officially been renamed Polyendocrine Metabolic Ovarian Syndrome (PMOS).
Researchers say the change better reflects the condition’s wide-ranging effects beyond ovarian cysts, including impacts on hormones, metabolism, fertility and long-term health.
Experts hope the updated terminology could improve awareness, diagnosis and treatment for the millions of women affected worldwide.
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A hiker poked into a hole in the ground and discovered a rare gold scabbard ornament from Norway's Migration period. To date, only 17 others have been discovered in Northern Europe, and most were found in hoards with other objects.
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