SLIPPERY SLOPE
A new study offers clues about the worsening damage COVID could inflict on your body with each round of infection.
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WOW!
A loud, peculiar signal detected by scientists 45 years ago is getting a second look—and renewing hopes that we found extraterrestrial life.
ON THE SLY
A new genetic analysis reveals the current outbreak may have begun earlier than thought—and the rise in cases is only fueling opportunities for new mutations.
HIDE AND SEEK
We could be on the verge of finding a lot of new worlds and—potentially—life on them.
EVASIVE ACTION
A brand new subvariant is starting to surge, and there are signs this one can dodge our immunity.
OFFWORLD
Flashing lights, gargantuan megastructures, and even… pollution? Scientists are redefining what an intelligent civilization across the galaxy might look like.
THE EXPANSE
If the universe is expanding, that might also mean it will one day contract. One theory suggests we’re caught in a never-ending cycle of these “cosmological bounces.”
DODGED A BULLET
Scientists were concerned that cases of monkeypox springing up across the world suggested the virus had gone airborne—and that could have caused another pandemic.
BORN AND BRED
Why the King of Planets could help us find life on other planets.
NIGHTMARE SCENARIO
Global attention is no longer focused on vaccine innovation, leaving open the nightmare scenario that fast mutating COVID will bypass our immunity.
