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This child was treated for a rare genetic disease while still in the womb Nov 09 2022 5:00 PM Babies born with infantile-onset Pompe disease typically have enlarged hearts and weak muscles. But 1-year-old Ayla has a normal heart and walks. READ MORE   Greenland's frozen hinterlands are bleeding worse than we thought Nov 09 2022 11:00 AM An inland swath of the Northeast Greenland Ice Stream is accelerating and thinning. It could contribute much more to sea level rise than estimated. READ MORE   Some harlequin frogs — presumed extinct — have been rediscovered Nov 09 2022 7:00 AM Colorful harlequin frogs were among the hardest hit amphibians during a fungal pandemic. Some species are now making a comeback. READ MORE   Sponsored Content Calling young global leaders! Join us at Yale this summer for a two-week STEM experience, with high school students from 50 U.S. states and 150+ countries.

This ancient Canaanite comb is engraved with a plea against lice Nov 08 2022 11:00 PM The Canaanite comb bears the earliest known instance of a complete sentence written in a phonetic alphabet, researchers say. READ MORE

Here's how mysterious last-resort antibiotics kill bacteria Nov 08 2022 11:00 AM Scientists are finally getting a grip on how a class of last-resort antibiotics works — the drugs kill bacteria by crystallizing their membranes. READ MORE

Certain young fruit flies' eyes literally pop out of their head Nov 08 2022 7:00 AM The first published photo sequence of developing Pelmatops flies shows how their eyes rise on gangly stalks in the first hour of adulthood. READ MORE

Can't Get Enough Space? Sign up for our latest space and astronomy headlines in your inbox every other Friday. SIGN UP NOW More Recent Headlines Video reveals that springtails are tiny acrobats Nov 07 2022 4:39 PM Poppy seed–sized cousins of insects, famed for wild escape leaping, right themselves in mid-falls faster than cats. READ MORE   Catastrophic solar storms may not explain shadows of radiation in trees Nov 07 2022 9:00 AM Tree rings record six known Miyake events — spikes in global radiation levels in the past. The sun, as long presumed, might not be the sole culprit. READ MORE   Part of a lost, ancient star catalog has now been found Nov 07 2022 7:00 AM Greek astronomer Hipparchus may be the first to try to precisely map the stars. His lost work turned up on parchment that had been erased and reused. READ MORE   Astronomers have found the closest known black hole to Earth Nov 04 2022 10:58 AM Discovered by how it pushes around a companion star, the black hole is about 1,500 light-years away and roughly 10 times the mass of the sun. READ MORE   Cat allergies may be tamed by adding an asthma therapy to allergy shots Nov 04 2022 7:00 AM Adding an antibody already used to treat asthma to standard allergy shots improved cat allergy symptoms for a least a year, a small study finds. READ MORE   The U.S.'s alcohol-induced death rate rose sharply in the pandemic's first year Nov 04 2022 12:01 AM Studies suggested cases of alcoholic liver disease rose in the first pandemic year, and new data show the death rate from alcohol use climbed too. READ MORE   Crowdsourced cell phone data could keep bridges safe and strong Nov 03 2022 1:23 PM Accelerometers and GPS sensors in smartphones could provide frequent, real-time data on bridge vibrations, and alert engineers to changes in integrity READ MORE   Marsquakes hint that the planet might be volcanically active after all Nov 03 2022 9:00 AM Seismic data recorded by NASA's InSight lander suggest molten rock moves tens of kilometers below the planet's fractured Cerberus Fossae region. READ MORE   Where are the long COVID clinics? Nov 03 2022 6:00 AM For people with long COVID, finding a place to get appropriate medical care is a challenge. READ MORE   Deer-vehicle collisions spike when daylight saving time ends Nov 02 2022 11:00 AM In the week after much of the United States turns the clock back, scientists found a 16 percent increase in crashes between vehicles and deer. READ MORE

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