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- Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea
(Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
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- Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH
(Thu, Mar 13, 2025)
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- Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker
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- Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home
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- Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants
(Thu, Feb 13, 2025)
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- How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth
(Thu, Feb 06, 2025)
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- Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine
(Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
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- Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters
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- Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints
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- On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals
(Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
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- Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds
(Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
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- Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates
(Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
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- Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech
(Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
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- Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted
(Thu, Nov 28, 2024)
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- Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity
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(Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
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- The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity
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- Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
(Thu, Oct 24, 2024)
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- How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete
(Thu, Oct 17, 2024)
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- Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water
(Thu, Oct 10, 2024)
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- Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms
(Thu, Oct 03, 2024)
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(Thu, Sep 26, 2024)
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(Thu, Sep 19, 2024)
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- Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound
(Thu, Sep 12, 2024)
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- Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?
(Thu, Sep 05, 2024)
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- A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism
(Thu, Aug 29, 2024)
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- Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote
(Thu, Aug 22, 2024)
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- The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise
(Thu, Aug 15, 2024)
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- The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine
(Thu, Aug 08, 2024)
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- Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy
(Thu, Aug 01, 2024)
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(Thu, Jul 25, 2024)
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- New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game
(Thu, Jul 18, 2024)
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- How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations
(Thu, Jul 11, 2024)
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- What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer
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- Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money
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- The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution
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- How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice
(Thu, Jun 13, 2024)
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- Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
(Thu, Jun 06, 2024)
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- Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
(Thu, May 30, 2024)
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- Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
(Thu, May 23, 2024)
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- How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
(Thu, May 16, 2024)
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- A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
(Thu, May 09, 2024)
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- Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
(Thu, May 02, 2024)
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(Thu, Apr 25, 2024)
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(Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
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(Thu, Apr 11, 2024)
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- When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?
(Thu, Apr 04, 2024)
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(Thu, Mar 28, 2024)
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- Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
(Thu, Mar 21, 2024)
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- Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
(Thu, Mar 14, 2024)
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- A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
(Thu, Mar 07, 2024)
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- The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change
(Thu, Feb 29, 2024)
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- What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
(Thu, Feb 22, 2024)
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- What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
(Thu, Feb 15, 2024)
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- A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators
(Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
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- A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs
(Thu, Feb 01, 2024)
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- A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior
(Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
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- Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw
(Fri, Jan 19, 2024)
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- The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth
(Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
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- The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease
(Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
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- The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender
(Fri, Dec 22, 2023)
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- Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins
(Thu, Dec 14, 2023)
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- Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives
(Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
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- Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots
(Thu, Nov 30, 2023)
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- Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy
(Thu, Nov 23, 2023)
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- AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills
(Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
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- The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics
(Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
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- Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs
(Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
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- Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science
(Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
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- The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves
(Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
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- Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors
(Fri, Oct 13, 2023)
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- How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?
(Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
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- Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’
(Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
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- Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall
(Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
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- Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
(Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
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- Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid
(Thu, Sep 07, 2023)
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- Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
(Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
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- The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
(Thu, Aug 24, 2023)
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- What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated
(Thu, Aug 17, 2023)
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- Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
(Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
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- Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
(Thu, Aug 03, 2023)
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- Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
(Thu, Jul 27, 2023)
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- Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
(Thu, Jul 20, 2023)
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- The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
(Thu, Jul 13, 2023)
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- Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero
(Thu, Jul 06, 2023)
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- Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction
(Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
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- A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes
(Thu, Jun 22, 2023)
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- Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course
(Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
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- Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry
(Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
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- How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals
(Thu, Jun 01, 2023)
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- Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females
(Thu, May 25, 2023)
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- The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves
(Thu, May 18, 2023)
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- Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands
(Thu, May 11, 2023)
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- Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes
(Thu, May 04, 2023)
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- The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable
(Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
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- Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep
(Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
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- More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series
(Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
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- Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
(Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
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- How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille
(Thu, Mar 30, 2023)
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- New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
(Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
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- An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer
(Thu, Mar 16, 2023)
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- Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts
(Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
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- Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry
(Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
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- Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love
(Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
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- Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus
(Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
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- Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth
(Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
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- Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets
(Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
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- Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world
(Thu, Jan 26, 2023)
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- Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change
(Thu, Jan 19, 2023)
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- Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries
(Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
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- A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases
(Thu, Jan 05, 2023)
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- Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights
(Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
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- Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books
(Thu, Dec 15, 2022)
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- The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci
(Thu, Dec 08, 2022)
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- A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano
(Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
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- Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?
(Thu, Nov 24, 2022)
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- Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus
(Thu, Nov 17, 2022)
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- Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators
(Thu, Nov 10, 2022)
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- Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy
(Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
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- Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction
(Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
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- Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet
(Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
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- Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
(Thu, Oct 13, 2022)
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- Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
(Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
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- Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog
(Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
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- Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms
(Thu, Sep 22, 2022)
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- Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’
(Thu, Sep 15, 2022)
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- Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars
(Thu, Sep 08, 2022)
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- Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry
(Thu, Sep 01, 2022)
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- Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age
(Thu, Aug 25, 2022)
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- Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing
(Thu, Aug 18, 2022)
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- Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose
(Thu, Aug 11, 2022)
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- Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity
(Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
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- Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition
(Thu, Jul 28, 2022)
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- Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus
(Thu, Jul 21, 2022)
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- The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
(Thu, Jul 14, 2022)
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- Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
(Thu, Jul 07, 2022)
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- Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
(Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
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- Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
(Thu, Jun 23, 2022)
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- A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
(Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
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- Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
(Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
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- The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
(Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
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- Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
(Thu, May 26, 2022)
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- Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names
(Thu, May 19, 2022)
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- Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic
(Thu, May 12, 2022)
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- Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral
(Thu, May 05, 2022)
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- Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food
(Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
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- Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit
(Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
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- Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars
(Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
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- A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses
(Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
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- Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date
(Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
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- Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather
(Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
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- The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense
(Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
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- Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
(Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
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- A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists
(Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
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- Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction
(Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
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- COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts
(Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
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- Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media
(Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
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- Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions
(Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
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- Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels
(Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
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- A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships
(Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
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- Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths
(Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
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- Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines
(Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
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- Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
(Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
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- The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books
(Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
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- Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water
(Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
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- The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano
(Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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- Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity
(Thu, Nov 25, 2021)
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- Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites
(Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
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- The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span
(Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
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- The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve
(Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
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- Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression
(Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
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- Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood
(Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
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- The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?
(Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
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- Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia
(Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
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- Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM
(Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
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- Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
(Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
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- Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
(Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
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- Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
(Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
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- Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms
(Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
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- New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer
(Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
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- Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media
(Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
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- A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
(Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
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- A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry
(Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
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- Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms
(Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
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- Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core
(Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
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- Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
(Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
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- Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books
(Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
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- Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure
(Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
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- Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science
(Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
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- Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
(Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
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- Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families
(Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
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- Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
(Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
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- Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands
(Thu, May 27, 2021)
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- Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers
(Thu, May 20, 2021)
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- Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
(Thu, May 13, 2021)
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- Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects
(Thu, May 06, 2021)
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- Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys
(Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
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- Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
(Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
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- Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived
(Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
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- Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains
(Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
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- Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
(Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
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- Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions
(Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
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- COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities
(Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
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- Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills
(Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
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- The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color
(Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
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- Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
(Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
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- All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets
(Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
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- Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess
(Thu, Feb 11, 2021)
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- Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing
(Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
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- Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps
(Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
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- Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras
(Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
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- An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior
(Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
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- The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms
(Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
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- Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke
(Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
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- Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights
(Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
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- Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil
(Thu, Dec 10, 2020)
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- How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants
(Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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- Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis
(Thu, Nov 26, 2020)
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- Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face
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- How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes
(Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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- What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements
(Thu, Nov 05, 2020)
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- Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking
(Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
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- Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags
(Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
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- Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
(Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
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- Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus
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