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Nobel prize for medicine goes to U.S. duo for discovery of microRNA

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Meta unveils instant AI video generator with sounds

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Is it safe to exercise when you’re sick?

How to know when its best to refrain from exercise and when its safe to return to your normal activities.

The food of space travel could be based on rocks

A tray containing a sample from the asteroid Bennu. (Erika Blumenfeld & Joseph Aebers/JSC/NASA via The New York Times)

The world’s oldest termite mound is 34,000 years and counting

Termite mounds dot the landscape of Namaqualand in western South Africa. Locals call them heuweltjies, which means little hills in Afrikaans. (Alistair Potts via The New York Times)

This cheese stood alone for 3,600 years

A dairy sample was found on the person of a mummy buried in the Tarim Basin of northwestern China.

The sun will destroy the earth one day, Right? maybe not

A conceptual illustration of a rocky planet orbiting a white dwarf star.

The truth about tuna

An illustrative image of cans of tuna, in New York, Sept. 22, 2024. (Bobbi Lin/The New York Times)

How healthy are apples?

Apples with honey and crushed walnuts. Props styled by Kalen Kaminski. (Michael Graydon & Nikole Herriott/The New York Times)

Behind OpenAI’s audacious Pplan to make AI flow like electricity

Sam Altman, left, OpenAIs chief executive, speaks onstage with Kevin Scott, Microsofts chief technology officer, during Microsofts annual engineering and development conference in Seattle, May 21, 2024. (Grant Hindsley/The New York Times)

Power couple's ongoing battle

Professors Salim Abdool Karim and his wife Quarraisha Abdool Karim pose at the Centre for the Aids Programme of Research in South Africa (CAPRISA) in Durban

Nuking a huge asteroid could save Earth, suggests lab experiment

A big asteroid could threaten life on Earth

Rise in 'problematic' social media use: WHO

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A next-generation approach to heating and cooling buildings

A roof on the Bankside Yards project, in construction in London, Aug. 13, 2024. (Andrew Testa/The New York Times)

They’ve got a plan to fight global warming. It could alter the Oceans

Robert Izett prepares to gather water column samples from the ocean floor in Halifax Harbour, Nova Scotia, Canada, Aug. 28, 2024. (Greta Rybus/The New York Times)
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