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As Wildfires Rage, California’s Insurance Market Is in...

Providers are offering fewer and fewer policies because of costlier climate-fueled fires, homeowners moving into riskier areas, and...

Bird Flu Fears Stoke the Race for an mRNA Flu Vaccine

Researchers have been working on mRNA flu vaccines since before the Covid-19 pandemic, but we may get one for bird flu first.

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These New Biomaterials Can Help Decarbonize Fashion and...

Designers are imagining a future where bacteria powers both clothing and cement—and their ideas are coming to a shop near you.

Hurricane Helene Shows How Broken the US Insurance System...

Many homeowners in North Carolina won’t be insured against flooding or landslides due to the fragmented way in which disasters are...

Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency...

The Advanced Research and Invention Agency—ARIA—is the UK's answer to Darpa. But can it put the country back on the scientific map?

Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified

Since launching in 2014, the world’s premier EV racing series has made huge technological leaps and gained hundreds of millions of...

The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time...

With Monday's closure of Ratcliffe-on-Soar, coal is no longer being used to provide electricity in the UK.

23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

The home DNA testing boom is over, and 23andMe is running out of options.

Hurricane Helene Will Send Shockwaves Through the Semiconductor...

Downpours at Spruce Pine, North Carolina have taken the biggest known deposit of high-purity quartz offline, leaving the global tech...

The Vagus Nerve’s Crucial Role in Creating the Human Sense...

Like a highway system, the vagus nerve branches profusely from your brain through your organs to marshal bodily functions, including...