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  1. Health & Medicine

    People with food and other allergies have a new way to treat severe reactions

    A new epinephrine nasal spray gives people a needle-free way to treat severe allergic reactions to food, insect venom and drugs.

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  2. Planetary Science

    The Webb telescope’s peek into a stellar nursery finds baby planets too

    Images by the James Webb telescope of six Jupiter-sized worlds, one of which may have a moon-forming disk, reveal clues into how planets and stars form.

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  3. Particle Physics

    The possibilities for dark matter have just shrunk — by a lot 

    The LZ dark matter experiment has ruled out weakly interacting massive particles, or WIMPs, with a wide range of properties.

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  4. Earth

    Mantle waves buoy continents upward and bedeck them with diamonds

    A phenomenon occurring deep underground may explain how vast plateaus form far away from tectonic plate boundaries.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Extreme heat and rain are fueling rising cases of mosquito-borne diseases

    Extreme Climate Update looks at the perfect storm climate change is creating for mosquitoes and the diseases they carry, like dengue and West Nile.

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  6. Readers discuss hypothetical ‘tauonium’ atoms

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  7. A long-awaited cancer treatment reaches patients

    Print and Longform Managing Editor Erin Wayman discusses the recently approved T cell therapy for cancer patients.

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  8. Microbes

    More than 100 bacteria species can flourish in microwave ovens

    Swabs of 30 microwave ovens in different settings identified over 100 bacterial species, some of which could be pathogenic or cause food-borne disease.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    50 years ago, antibiotic resistant bacteria became a problem outside hospitals

    Infections from drug-resistant bacteria have skyrocketed over the last 50 years. Now, new technologies could help doctors save lives.

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  10. Oceans

    National Geographic’s ‘OceanXplorers’ dives into the ocean’s mysteries

    National Geographic’s documentary series ‘OceanXplorers,’ produced by James Cameron, invites you aboard one of the most advanced research vessels in the world.

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  11. Health & Medicine

    New COVID-19 booster shots have been approved. When should you get one?

    The vaccines target the omicron variants currently circulating in the United States.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    A newly approved ‘living drug’ could save more cancer patients’ lives

    Tumor-infiltrating lymphocyte, or TIL, therapy is the first T cell treatment for solid tumors. It fights melanoma and maybe other cancers too.

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