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To the editor: After more than 50 years of fishing, I’ve watched technology change not only how we find fish, but now perhaps even how we choose the lure. Finding fish once depended on reading the water, studying weather patterns, understanding lake structure, and gaining knowledge through years of experience. Today, advanced sonar allow anglers…
A hummingbird shape in satellite data from NISAR is actually a mountaintop spotted in Antarctica. (Image credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech) In satellite data captured over Antarctica, what appears to be a beautiful, colorful hummingbird emerges from the crest of a mountaintop. What is it? While there are no hummingbirds flying around Antarctica, we can see what looks…
In the weeks around the 2026 annual meeting of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, my phone kept buzzing with alerts about GLP-1 drugs and cancer. The headlines were everywhere — from NPR and The Washington Post to Substack and heated exchanges on social media — all circling the same claim: Ozempic might lower the…
We know that air pollution is bad for us, and if we think about it, it’s probably obvious that it’s particularly bad for our lungs. But many people don’t realize how much it affects many other bodily systems. Pollutants in the air don’t just get into our lung tissue and stay there. The tiniest pollutants…