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A Mysterious ‘Alien Beacon’ Was Actually a False Alarm

Radio signal seemed to originate from the star Proxima Centauri, and provided a helpful drill for future searches

Alexandra Witze and Nature magazine

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The Venus’s Flower Basket’s Weird Fluid Dynamics Explained

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Vapor Storms Are Threatening People and Property

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Gut Bacteria Change as You Get Older—and May Accelerate Aging

Microbe types in older people’s intestines are different and are linked to disease

Melinda Wenner Moyer

COVID Vaccine Makers Prepare for a Variant Worse Than Delta

Companies are updating vaccines and testing them on people to prepare for whatever comes next in the pandemic

Emily Waltz and Nature magazine

People Who Jump to Conclusions Show Other Kinds of Thinking Errors

Belief in conspiracy theories and overconfidence are two tendencies linked to hasty thinking

Carmen Sanchez and David Dunning

Quantum Physics

This Simple Experiment Could Challenge Standard Quantum Theory

Measuring the time it takes particles to travel between two points may offer the best-yet test for Bohmian mechanics

Anil Ananthaswamy

NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope Will Face ‘29 Days on the Edge’

The observatory must complete about 50 major deployments after liftoff

Elizabeth Howell and SPACE.com

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A look at methods and technologies that are transforming the work of psychiatrists and psychologists

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