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News Articles: Science

Medical instruments are pictured at the Actors Fund's Al Hirschfeld Free Health Clinic on March 23, 2011, in New York City. Researchers found that the odds of getting a formal dementia diagnosis in the U.S. differed based on location.

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  • Health

A new Alzheimer's study suggests where you live can affect the odds of a diagnosis

Researchers found diagnosis rates varied depending on location — with parts of the Great Plains and Southwest seeing fewer dementia cases than predicted.

August 19, 2024
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By:
  • Juliana Kim
The sturgeon supermoon over Vanderbilt University's West End Tower in Nashville, Tenn., in August 2023.

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  • Space

What to know about Monday's blue supermoon

The next blue supermoon will not happen until 2032, but supermoons occur more frequently.

August 19, 2024
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By:
  • Mansee Khurana
 AJR fans at Denver's Ball Arena perform the wave on June 20, 2024.

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  • Arts & Life

How one pop band is trying to turn concertgoers into climate activists

The multi-platinum-selling indie pop band is using research to inspire fans to take immediate action against climate change.

August 19, 2024
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By:
  • Chloe Veltman
 Excavators unearth a 13,600-year-old mastodon skull from an Iowa creek.

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  • Science

A 13,600-year-old mastodon skull is unearthed in an Iowa creek

The University of Iowa’s Office of the State Archaeologist said a 12-day excavation yielded “several mastodon bones,” primarily from the skull. Mastodons are distant cousins of elephants.

August 18, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
A parvovirus B19 infection can cause a facial rash in children, which is why the disease caused by the virus is sometimes called "slapped-cheek disease."

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  • Science

What to know about the 'slapped cheek' virus uptick in the U.S.

Most healthy people have either no symptoms or flu-like symptoms from a parvovirus B19 infection, but it can lead to serious complications for certain groups of people.

August 17, 2024
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  • Juliana Kim
Invasive cane toads like this one have fanned out across Australia, killing numerous predators in their wake, including freshwater crocodiles.

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  • Research News

To save wild crocodiles in Australia, scientists gave them food poisoning

Freshwater crocodiles die every year in Australia from eating poisonous cane toads that humans introduced to the continent. Now scientists have found a way to teach the crocs to avoid the toxic toads.

August 17, 2024
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By:
  • Ari Daniel
The Rio Grande is shown between the border towns of Del Rio, Texas, and Ciudad Acuña, Mexico, in January 2023.

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  • Politics

Water treaty between Mexico and U.S. faces biggest test in 80 years

The water-sharing systems between Mexico and the U.S. are facing one of the biggest tests in their 80-year history after Mexico has fallen behind on billions of gallons of water deliveries.

August 16, 2024
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  • Bria Suggs
The prehistoric monument Stonehenge, near Amesbury in southern England, has long fascinated researchers and visitors.

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  • World

Researchers say they've found the surprising source of a key piece of Stonehenge

Researchers may have solved a Stonehenge mystery — and raised another. They say its central Altar Stone somehow got to England from Scotland, hundreds of miles farther away than originally thought.

August 15, 2024
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  • Rachel Treisman
Solar panels are installed on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky. in 2023. Residential solar is booming in the U.S. but customer complaints have increased even more.

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  • Climate

Thinking about rooftop solar? 4 things to consider and how to protect yourself

The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. The industry is working to repair its reputation. Here’s how you can protect yourself.

August 14, 2024
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  • Jeff Brady
A crew installs a solar array on the roof of a home in Frankfort, Ky., in 2023.

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  • Climate

Rooftop solar has a fraud problem. The industry is working to build back trust

The rooftop solar business is a big source of consumer complaints. Across the country, prosecutors are investigating sales practices and financing arrangements. Now the solar industry is working to repair its reputation.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Jeff Brady
Surf from Tropical Storm Debby breaks over a sea wall in Cedar Key, Fla., in August 2024. Abnormally hot ocean water is contributing to a very active Atlantic Hurricane season. Climate change is the main driver of record-breaking ocean temperatures, but scientists are trying to figure out what other causes may be at play.

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  • Climate

The oceans are weirdly hot. Scientists are trying to figure out why

Scientists knew that climate change would cause the oceans to heat up a lot. But current ocean temperatures are even higher than expected.

August 14, 2024
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  • Rebecca Hersher
 The central European bicolored ant, <em>L. emarginatus</em>, forages along a tree branch in New York City’s Riverside Park.

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  • Science

Meet the ManhattAnt, the ant that's taken New York's streets by storm

The ManhattAnt has become the dominant ant species in the Big Apple, and scientists aren't sure why.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Nell Greenfieldboyce
A Burmese python is held during a safe capture demonstration at a media event for the 2022 Florida Python Challenge on June 16, 2022, in Miami.

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  • National

Here’s why snake hunters from across the U.S. are wading into the Florida Everglades

The annual Florida Python Challenge invites participants to catch and kill invasive Burmese pythons, which feed on the state's native animal population.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Joe Hernandez
Fringed Campion in bloom in an urban forest in Macon in April 2024.

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  • Climate

In Macon, volunteers fight escaped garden plants to save an endangered native

Because of habitat loss and climate change, rare plants exist in increasingly perilous places. Protecting them means gardening at a landscape scale — one in a most unlikely location: urban Macon.

August 14, 2024
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By:
  • Grant Blankenship
A woodpecker living in a Saguaro at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix on June 28.

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  • Climate

Giant old saguaros can be resilient. It's baby saguaros researchers are worried about

Metro Phoenix's mighty saguaros have been falling at a rate that has alarmed casual observers. But experts say people need to turn their attention to the young ones that aren't growing yet.

August 14, 2024
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  • Alina Hartounian
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