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Losing years of progress against HIV, and farming plastic on Mars (Thu, Jul 03, 2025)
Will your family turn you into a chatbot after you die? Plus, synthetic squid skin, and the sway of matriarchs in ancient Anatolia (Thu, Jun 26, 2025)
How effective are plastic bag bans? And a whole new way to do astronomy (Thu, Jun 19, 2025)
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change (Thu, Jun 12, 2025)
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science (Thu, Jun 05, 2025)
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research (Thu, May 29, 2025)
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’ (Thu, May 22, 2025)
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes (Thu, May 15, 2025)
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science (Thu, May 08, 2025)
Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’ (Thu, May 01, 2025)
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series (Thu, Apr 24, 2025)
Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander (Thu, Apr 17, 2025)
The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH (Thu, Apr 10, 2025)
Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (Thu, Apr 03, 2025)
Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots (Thu, Mar 27, 2025)
Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea (Thu, Mar 20, 2025)
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)
Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker (Thu, Mar 06, 2025)
Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home (Thu, Feb 27, 2025)
Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability (Thu, Feb 20, 2025)
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)
How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth (Thu, Feb 06, 2025)
Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration (T , )(hu, Jan 30, 2025)
Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine (Thu, Jan 23, 2025)
Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters (Thu, Jan 16, 2025)
Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints (Thu, Jan 09, 2025)
On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals (Thu, Jan 02, 2025)
Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds (Thu, Dec 19, 2024)
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates (Thu, Dec 12, 2024)
Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech (Thu, Dec 05, 2024)
Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted (Thu, Nov 28, 2024)
Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity (Thu, Nov 21, 2024)
Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains (Thu, Nov 14, 2024)
Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers (Thu, Nov 07, 2024)
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity (Thu, Oct 31, 2024)
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination (Thu, Oct 24, 2024)
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete (Thu, Oct 17, 2024)
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water (Thu, Oct 10, 2024)
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms (Thu, Oct 03, 2024)
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins (Thu, Sep 26, 2024)
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat (Thu, Sep 19, 2024)
Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound (Thu, Sep 12, 2024)
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)
A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism (Thu, Aug 29, 2024)
Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote (Thu, Aug 22, 2024)
The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise (Thu, Aug 15, 2024)
The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine (Thu, Aug 08, 2024)
Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy (Thu, Aug 01, 2024)
Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots (Thu, Jul 25, 2024)
New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game (Thu, Jul 18, 2024)
How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations (Thu, Jul 11, 2024)
What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer (Thu, Jul 04, 2024)
Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money (Thu, Jun 27, 2024)
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution (Thu, Jun 20, 2024)
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice (Thu, Jun 13, 2024)
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up (Thu, Jun 06, 2024)
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials (Thu, May 30, 2024)
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud (Thu, May 23, 2024)
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters (Thu, May 16, 2024)
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects (Thu, May 09, 2024)
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice (Thu, May 02, 2024)
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series (Thu, Apr 25, 2024)
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut (Thu, Apr 18, 2024)
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene (Thu, Apr 11, 2024)
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor? (Thu, Apr 04, 2024)
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career (Thu, Mar 28, 2024)
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture (Thu, Mar 21, 2024)
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain (Thu, Mar 14, 2024)
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair (Thu, Mar 07, 2024)
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change (Thu, Feb 29, 2024)
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all (Thu, Feb 22, 2024)
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication (Thu, Feb 15, 2024)
A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators (Thu, Feb 08, 2024)
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)
A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior (Thu, Jan 25, 2024)
Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw (Fri, Jan 19, 2024)
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth (Thu, Jan 11, 2024)
The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease (Thu, Jan 04, 2024)
The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender (Fri, Dec 22, 2023)
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins (Thu, Dec 14, 2023)
Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives (Thu, Dec 07, 2023)
Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots (Thu, Nov 30, 2023)
Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy (Thu, Nov 23, 2023)
AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills (Thu, Nov 16, 2023)
The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics (Thu, Nov 09, 2023)
Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs (Thu, Nov 02, 2023)
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science (Thu, Oct 26, 2023)
The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves (Thu, Oct 19, 2023)
Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors (Fri, Oct 13, 2023)
How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty? (Thu, Oct 05, 2023)
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’ (Thu, Sep 28, 2023)
Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall (Thu, Sep 21, 2023)
Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions (Thu, Sep 14, 2023)
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)
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell (Thu, Aug 31, 2023)
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender (Thu, Aug 24, 2023)
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated (Thu, Aug 17, 2023)
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh (Thu, Aug 10, 2023)
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum (Thu, Aug 03, 2023)
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa (Thu, Jul 27, 2023)
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones (Thu, Jul 20, 2023)
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo (Thu, Jul 13, 2023)
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)
Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction (Thu, Jun 29, 2023)
A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes (Thu, Jun 22, 2023)
Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course (Thu, Jun 15, 2023)
Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry (Thu, Jun 08, 2023)
How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals (Thu, Jun 01, 2023)
Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females (Thu, May 25, 2023)
The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves (Thu, May 18, 2023)
Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands (Thu, May 11, 2023)
Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes (Thu, May 04, 2023)
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable (Thu, Apr 27, 2023)
Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep (Thu, Apr 20, 2023)
More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series (Thu, Apr 13, 2023)
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants (Thu, Apr 06, 2023)
How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille (Thu, Mar 30, 2023)
New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories (Thu, Mar 23, 2023)
An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer (Thu, Mar 16, 2023)
Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts (Thu, Mar 09, 2023)
Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry (Thu, Mar 02, 2023)
Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love (Thu, Feb 23, 2023)
Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus (Thu, Feb 16, 2023)
Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth (Thu, Feb 09, 2023)
Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets (Thu, Feb 02, 2023)
Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world (Thu, Jan 26, 2023)
Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change (Thu, Jan 19, 2023)
Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries (Thu, Jan 12, 2023)
A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases (Thu, Jan 05, 2023)
Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights (Thu, Dec 22, 2022)
Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books (Thu, Dec 15, 2022)
The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci (Thu, Dec 08, 2022)
A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano (Thu, Dec 01, 2022)
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need? (Thu, Nov 24, 2022)
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus (Thu, Nov 17, 2022)
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators (Thu, Nov 10, 2022)
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy (Thu, Nov 03, 2022)
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction (Thu, Oct 27, 2022)
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet (Thu, Oct 20, 2022)
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks (Thu, Oct 13, 2022)
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores (Thu, Oct 06, 2022)
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog (Thu, Sep 29, 2022)
Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms (Thu, Sep 22, 2022)
Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’ (Thu, Sep 15, 2022)
Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars (Thu, Sep 08, 2022)
Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry (Thu, Sep 01, 2022)
Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age (Thu, Aug 25, 2022)
Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing (Thu, Aug 18, 2022)
Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose (Thu, Aug 11, 2022)
Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity (Thu, Aug 04, 2022)
Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition (Thu, Jul 28, 2022)
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus (Thu, Jul 21, 2022)
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy (Thu, Jul 14, 2022)
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India (Thu, Jul 07, 2022)
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis (Thu, Jun 30, 2022)
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation (Thu, Jun 23, 2022)
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits (Thu, Jun 16, 2022)
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid (Thu, Jun 09, 2022)
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning (Thu, Jun 02, 2022)
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa (Thu, May 26, 2022)
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names (Thu, May 19, 2022)
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic (Thu, May 12, 2022)
Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral (Thu, May 05, 2022)
Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food (Thu, Apr 28, 2022)
Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit (Thu, Apr 21, 2022)
Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars (Thu, Apr 14, 2022)
A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses (Thu, Apr 07, 2022)
Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date (Thu, Mar 31, 2022)
Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather (Thu, Mar 24, 2022)
The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense (Thu, Mar 17, 2022)
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic (Thu, Mar 10, 2022)
A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists (Thu, Mar 03, 2022)
Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction (Thu, Feb 24, 2022)
COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts (Thu, Feb 17, 2022)
Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media (Thu, Feb 10, 2022)
Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions (Thu, Feb 03, 2022)
Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels (Thu, Jan 27, 2022)
A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships (Thu, Jan 20, 2022)
Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths (Thu, Jan 13, 2022)
Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines (Thu, Jan 06, 2022)
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism (Thu, Dec 23, 2021)
The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books (Thu, Dec 16, 2021)
Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water (Thu, Dec 09, 2021)
The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano (Thu, Dec 02, 2021)
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)
Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites (Thu, Nov 18, 2021)
The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span (Thu, Nov 11, 2021)
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve (Thu, Nov 04, 2021)
Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression (Thu, Oct 28, 2021)
Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood (Wed, Oct 20, 2021)
The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth? (Thu, Oct 14, 2021)
Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia (Thu, Oct 07, 2021)
Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM (Thu, Sep 30, 2021)
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA (Thu, Sep 23, 2021)
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap (Thu, Sep 16, 2021)
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people (Thu, Sep 09, 2021)
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms (Thu, Sep 02, 2021)
New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer (Thu, Aug 26, 2021)
Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media (Thu, Aug 19, 2021)
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning (Thu, Aug 12, 2021)
A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry (Thu, Aug 05, 2021)
Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms (Thu, Jul 29, 2021)
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core (Thu, Jul 22, 2021)
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood (Thu, Jul 15, 2021)
Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books (Thu, Jul 08, 2021)
Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure (Thu, Jul 01, 2021)
Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science (Thu, Jun 24, 2021)
Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement (Thu, Jun 17, 2021)
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families (Thu, Jun 10, 2021)
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code (Thu, Jun 03, 2021)
Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands (Thu, May 27, 2021)
Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers (Thu, May 20, 2021)
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning (Thu, May 13, 2021)
Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects (Thu, May 06, 2021)
Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys (Thu, Apr 29, 2021)
Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel (Thu, Apr 22, 2021)
Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived (Thu, Apr 15, 2021)
Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains (Thu, Apr 08, 2021)
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate (Thu, Apr 01, 2021)
Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions (Thu, Mar 25, 2021)
COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities (Thu, Mar 18, 2021)
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills (Thu, Mar 11, 2021)
The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color (Thu, Mar 04, 2021)
Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator (Thu, Feb 25, 2021)
All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets (Thu, Feb 18, 2021)
Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess (Thu, Feb 11, 2021)
Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing (Thu, Feb 04, 2021)
Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps (Thu, Jan 28, 2021)
Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras (Thu, Jan 21, 2021)
An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior (Thu, Jan 14, 2021)
The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms (Thu, Jan 07, 2021)
Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke (Thu, Dec 31, 2020)
Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights (Thu, Dec 17, 2020)
Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil (Thu, Dec 10, 2020)
How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants (Thu, Dec 03, 2020)
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)
Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face (Thu, Nov 19, 2020)
How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes (Thu, Nov 12, 2020)
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)
Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking (Thu, Oct 29, 2020)
Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags (Thu, Oct 22, 2020)
Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart (Thu, Oct 15, 2020)
Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus (Thu, Oct 08, 2020)
FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players (Thu, Oct 01, 2020)
How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia (Thu, Sep 24, 2020)
Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons (Thu, Sep 17, 2020)
Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging (Thu, Sep 10, 2020)
Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people (Thu, Sep 03, 2020)
Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change (Thu, Aug 27, 2020)
Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes (Thu, Aug 20, 2020)
A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports (Thu, Aug 13, 2020)
Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel (Thu, Aug 06, 2020)
Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint (Thu, Jul 30, 2020)
How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution (Thu, Jul 23, 2020)
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation (Thu, Jul 16, 2020)
A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood (Thu, Jul 09, 2020)
An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat (Thu, Jul 02, 2020)
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs (Thu, Jun 25, 2020)
Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses (Thu, Jun 18, 2020)
The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild (Thu, Jun 11, 2020)
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food (Thu, Jun 04, 2020)
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor (Thu, May 28, 2020)
How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water (Thu, May 21, 2020)
How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano (Thu, May 14, 2020)
Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet (Thu, May 07, 2020)
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring? (Thu, Apr 30, 2020)
From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks (Thu, Apr 23, 2020)
How countries could recover from coronavirus, lessons from an ancient drought, and feeling tactile waves in the hand (Thu, Apr 16, 2020)
Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia (Thu, Apr 09, 2020)
How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice (Thu, Apr 02, 2020)
Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals (Thu, Mar 26, 2020)
Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music (Thu, Mar 19, 2020)
Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin (Thu, Mar 12, 2020)
Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life (Thu, Mar 05, 2020)
An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing (Thu, Feb 27, 2020)
Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity (Thu, Feb 20, 2020)
NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma (Thu, Feb 13, 2020)
Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests (Thu, Feb 06, 2020)
A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia (Thu, Jan 30, 2020)
Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment (Thu, Jan 23, 2020)(0000 , )
Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes (Thu, Jan 16, 2020)
Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational (Thu, Jan 09, 2020)
Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps (Thu, Jan 02, 2020)
Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books (Thu, Dec 19, 2019)
Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space (Fri, Dec 13, 2019)
Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid (Thu, Dec 05, 2019)
Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors (Thu, Nov 28, 2019)
Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music (Thu, Nov 21, 2019)
How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere (Thu, Nov 14, 2019)
Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology (Thu, Nov 07, 2019)
How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes (Thu, Oct 31, 2019)
A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm (Thu, Oct 24, 2019)
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’ (Thu, Oct 17, 2019)
Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands (Thu, Oct 10, 2019)
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds (Thu, Oct 03, 2019)
Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts (Thu, Sep 26, 2019)
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Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery (Thu, Jul 25, 2019)
Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors, and the secret to dark liquid dances (Thu, Jul 18, 2019)
The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health (Thu, Jul 11, 2019)
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Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa (Thu, Jun 13, 2019)
The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED (Thu, Jun 06, 2019)
Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag (Thu, May 30, 2019)
New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings (Thu, May 23, 2019)
Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones (Thu, May 16, 2019)
Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse (Thu, May 09, 2019)
The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish (Thu, May 02, 2019)
Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales (Thu, Apr 25, 2019)
How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste (Thu, Apr 18, 2019)
A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants (Thu, Apr 11, 2019)
A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade (Thu, Apr 04, 2019)
Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system (Thu, Mar 28, 2019)
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Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments (Thu, Mar 14, 2019)
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Measuring earthquake damage with cellphone sensors and determining the height of the ancient Tibetan Plateau (Thu, Feb 28, 2019)
Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders (Thu, Feb 21, 2019)
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Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut (Thu, Feb 07, 2019)
Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep (Thu, Jan 31, 2019)
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A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees (Thu, Jan 10, 2019)
Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust (Thu, Jan 03, 2019)
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‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull (Thu, Dec 13, 2018)
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Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long? (Thu, Sep 06, 2018)
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Neandertals that made art, live news from the AAAS Annual Meeting, and the emotional experience of being a scientist (Thu, Feb 22, 2018)
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Who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer therapy with gut microbes (Thu, Jan 04, 2018)
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Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research (Thu, Dec 07, 2017)
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The world’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective (Wed, Nov 22, 2017)
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LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs (Thu, Oct 19, 2017)
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Science Podcast - Quantum cryptography, salt's role in ecosystems, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (31 Jan 2014) (Fri, Jan 31, 2014)
Science Podcast - The genome of a transmissible dog cancer, the 10-year anniversary of Opportunity on Mars, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (24 Jan 2014) (Fri, Jan 24, 2014)
Science Podcast - The modern hunter-gatherer gut, fast mountain weathering, and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (17 Jan 2014) (Fri, Jan 17, 2014)
Science Podcast - Abundant bacterial vesicles in the ocean and a rundown of stories from our daily news site (10 Jan 2014) (Fri, Jan 10, 2014)
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Science Podcast - Science's breakthrough of the year, runners-up and the top content from our daily news site (20 Dec 2013) (Fri, Dec 20, 2013)
Science Podcast - Fear-enhanced odor detection, the latest from the Curiosity mission, and more (13 Dec 2013) (Fri, Dec 13, 2013)
Science Podcast - Noisy gene expression, the Tohoku-oki fault, and snake venom as a healer (6 Dec 2013) (Fri, Dec 06, 2013)
Science Podcast - 2013 science books for kids, newlywed happiness, and authorship for sale in China (29 Nov 2013) (Fri, Nov 29, 2013)
Science Podcast - Replacing the Y chromosome, the future of U.S. missile defense, the brightest gamma-ray burst, and more (22 Nov 2013) (Fri, Nov 22, 2013)
Science Podcast - Canine origins, asexual bacterial adaptation, perovskite-based solar cells, and more (15 Nov 2013) (Fri, Nov 15, 2013)