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ESA Confirms A11pl3Z as Third Known Interstellar Visitor

Science · United States

ESA Confirms A11pl3Z as Third Known Interstellar Visitor

45% Center coverage: 122 sources

October's perihelion coupled with a close Mars flyby presents a rare window for collecting spectral data that could reveal the composition of extrasolar debris.See the Story

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

Climate Change · United States

Major reports about how climate change affects the US are removed from websites

41% Left coverage: 84 sources

Legally mandated U.S. national climate assessments seem to have disappeared from the federal websites built to display them, making it harder for state and local governments and the public to learn what to expect in their backyards from a warming world.See the Story

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used to Expand Health Care

Medicaid · United States

To Cut Medicaid, the GOP’s Following a Path Often Used to Expand Health Care

47% Center coverage: 40 sources

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Plastic bag fees and bans help limit coastal litter, study finds

Low coverage from Right Sources

Plastic bag fees and bans help limit coastal litter, study finds

Can Adults Make New Brain Cells? New Study May Finally Settle One of Neuroscience's Greatest Debates

83% Center coverage: 6 sources

Scientists say they have very strong evidence that the adult human brain is capable of making new neurons, a point of ongoing controversy in neuroscience.Science See the Story

Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act Will Raise U.S. Climate Emissions

Coverage: 6 sources

Four research firms project that the Republicans’ One Big Beautiful Bill Act will raise greenhouse gas emissions and likely put U.S. and global climate goals out of reachDonald Trump · United States See the Story

William N. Robiner: Minnesota Lives, Jobs at Stake with Federal Health Funding Cuts

67% Left coverage: 3 sources

The administration of President Donald Trump is shaking things up — at the peril of all of us. The April 10 Journal of the American Medical Association editorial, “A Terrible Moment for Health," enumerated cuts to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the negative impacts the administration’s actions are having on the National Institutes of Health and other agencies. According to the Asso…Donald Trump · United States See the Story

Record-Breaking Results Bring Fusion Power Closer to Reality

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Breakthroughs from two rival experiments, Germany’s Wendelstein 7-X and the Joint European Torus, suggest the elusive dream of controlled nuclear fusion may be within reachWendelstein · Wendelstein Read Article

China’s Tianwen-3 Mission Could Beat the U.S. in the Race to Grab Mars Rocks

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

Launching in 2028, China’s Tianwen-3 Mars sample return mission could bring Red Planet rocks back to Earth as early as 2031—years ahead of competing U.S.-European effortsChina · China See the Story

AI Could Help Save Patients from Extreme Heat

100% Left coverage: 1 sources

AI could be used to comb through electronic health records and warn vulnerable people about dangerous heat wavesArtificial Intelligence Read Article

Astronomers Detect First Known ‘Death Wish’ Planet

Coverage: 4 sources

The outlook isn’t great for the exoplanet HIP 67522 b. Over the next 100 million years, powerful magnetic fields and destructive cosmic radiation will continue eating away at the distant planet, reducing it from its current Jupiter-sized mass down to a size resembling Neptune. But these apocalyptic conditions aren’t the fault of a nearby black hole. Instead, they’re a result of what astronomers describe as the exoplanet’s “clingy” relationship toSpace See the Story

Dolphins May Not "See" With Echolocation, But Instead "Feel" With It

100% Left coverage: 2 sources

So when a dolphin pings you with sound, it may be feeling you up (in a non-creepy way... we hope).Science See the Story

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