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Medical costs create hardships for more than half of Americans
A new study finds more than half of people in the US report problems with affordability,…
Why you love coffee and beer
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India prepares for ‘extremely severe’ Bay of Bengal cyclone
Hundreds of thousands of people were evacuated along India's eastern coast on Thursday as authorities braced…
A leap forward in estimating crop water use
To conserve and manage fresh water, particularly in arid regions such as Saudi Arabia, it is…
Hubble Legacy Field Crop
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How Atmospheric Sounding Transformed Weather Prediction
In the late 1950s, a scientist named Lewis Kaplan divined a new and groundbreaking way to…
Hubble Astronomers Assemble Wide View of the Evolving Universe
Astronomers have put together the largest and most comprehensive “history book” of galaxies into one single…
LIGO and Virgo detect neutron star smash-ups
On April 25, 2019, the National Science Foundation's Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory (LIGO) and the European-based…
Microplastics accumulate in hotspots for deep-sea life
Research published earlier in the week reveals that microplastics often accumulate on the deep sea floor…