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Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed So Quickly

Photographs of the aftermath show the bow of the ship pinned beneath fallen sections of the bridge. The anchor chain

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. Two years ago, in a project called the Beyond the

Scientists, conservationists, and cat advocates all agree that unchecked outdoor cat populations are a problem, but they remain deeply divided

Slayman received his first kidney transplant in 2018 from a human donor. The donor kidney initially functioned well, but Slayman

Working with player-tracking data from 7,176 corners taken in the Premier League during 2020 and 2021, the researchers began by

This extreme fragility might make quantum computing sound hopeless. But in 1995, the applied mathematician Peter Shor discovered a clever

The pushback from legislators sympathetic to ranchers and the broader meat industry puts cultivated meat companies in a difficult situation.

Ian Sample and science correspondent Hannah Devlin discuss some of the science stories that have made headlines this week, from

Extreme heat kills roughly half a million people worldwide each year, but at the current rate of global warming it

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A team of computer scientists has created a nimbler, more