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The Secrets of Aging Are Hidden in Your Ovaries

The ovaries age faster than any other organ in the body. Figuring out how to slow down that process could have health benefits for...

Is Cosmology Broken? This Map May Be a Crucial Puzzle Piece

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter...

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Inside the Secretive Life-Extension Clinic

Longevity evangelists are injecting people with experimental gene therapies. There are no guarantees—and no refunds.

How Reality May Be a Sum of All Possible Realities

Richard Feynman’s path integral is a powerful prediction machine and a philosophy. Physicists still struggle to figure out how to...

Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People...

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country’s development goals, slow economic growth, and heighten health risks, new...

An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans

Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis.

The Quest for Longevity Is Already Over

Studying people who live well beyond the age of 100 could reveal the secret to living longer, healthier lives. But the statistics...

As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking

Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation—a “hidden vulnerability” that’s making rising seas all the worse.

A Fatal Bear Attack Fuels a Fight Over Rewilding

The death of a jogger in northern Italy has turned the reintroduction of bears into a fraught political issue.

This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar...

The Japanese company Ispace could be the first to safely touch down on the moon’s surface, with more spacecraft following later this...