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2025-01-17

  2 Private Lunar Landers | Cervical Cancer Deaths Plummet, Experts Credit HPV Vaccine

The SpaceX rocket carries lunar landers from companies based in Texas and Japan. They could arrive at the moon in the coming months. HPV can cause a variety of cancers, including cervical. New mortality data for women under 25 point to the success of t... 		  Ira Flatow, Flora Lichtman author
2025-01-16

  ‘Artificial General Intelligence’ Is Apparently Coming. What Is It?

For years, artificial intelligence companies have heralded the coming of artificial general intelligence, or AGI. OpenAI, which makes the chatbot ChatGPT, has said that their founding goal was to build AGI that “benefits all of humanity” and “gives eve... 		  Ira Flatow, D Peterschmidt author
2025-01-15

  NASA Considers Cheaper Ways To Retrieve Mars Samples | How Does A Hula Hoop Stay Up?

Scientists investigated how the shape of the human body makes hula hooping possible—and what hips and a waist have to do with it. And, the decision for how to proceed with NASA's Mars Sample Return Mission will fall to the incoming administration.What ... 		  D Peterschmidt, Flora Lichtman, Shoshannah Buxbaum author
2025-01-14

  Surgeon General Highlights Link Between Alcohol And Cancer

Alcohol poses many risks to our health, including liver damage and driving under the influence.Now, U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy has highlighted another risk of drinking alcohol: cancer. In his latest advisory, Murthy detailed the growing body... 		  Shoshannah Buxbaum, Ira Flatow author
2025-01-13

  First U.S. Bird Flu Death Raises Concerns About Preparedness

On January 6, the U.S. reported its first human death from the bird flu. According to the CDC, more than 60 people were diagnosed with bird flu in the US last year, up from just one case in 2022.If you look at global cases over the last two decades, of... 		  Ira Flatow, Rasha Aridi author
2025-01-10

  Meet Flora Lichtman | Los Angeles Wildfires Stoked By Santa Ana Winds

After her SciFri internship 20 years ago, Flora went on to become a beloved science journalist, video producer, and podcaster. Now she’s back! Also, several different fires are causing extreme damage in the Los Angeles area. Strong Santa Ana winds are ... 		  Kathleen Davis, Flora Lichtman, Ira Flatow, Charles Bergquist author
2025-01-09

  What Lichen Tell Us About Ecology, Air Quality, And More

Last October, Ira Flatow took a trip to the World Forestry Center in Portland, Oregon, for a daylong exploration of lichen—the fuzzy growths often found on trees, roofs, and gravestones. Ira sat down in front of a sold-out room with Dr. Hannah Prather,... 		  Ira Flatow, Diana Plasker, John Dankosky author
2025-01-08

  Biologists Call For A Halt To ‘Mirror Life’ Research

You’re probably familiar with the concept of handedness—a glove made for your left hand looks basically like the one for your right hand, but won’t fit—it’s a mirror image. Many of life’s important molecules, including proteins and DNA, are chiral, mea... 		  Ira Flatow, Charles Bergquist author
2025-01-07

  The Breakthrough Technologies To Watch In 2025

Each year, the journalists at the MIT Technology Review publish a list of 10 breakthrough technologies: these are things poised to hit a tipping point, and potentially change the way the world works. Unsurprisingly, artificial intelligence remains a bi... 		  Kathleen Davis, Ira Flatow author
2025-01-06

  What Scientists Have Learned From 125 Years Of Bird Counts

This winter marks the 125th year of Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count, in which bird nerds across the Western Hemisphere venture outside to record all the birds they see and hear.Scientists use that data to understand how birds are faring, where they’re m... 		  Ira Flatow, Rasha Aridi, John Dankosky author