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Jennifer Doudna on what it takes to be a good scientist
Getting the billion-dollar PRIMA space telescope off the ground
Ayana Elizabeth Johnson on making climate action cool
Could a whale swallow a human, 'Whalefall' style?
Why do politicians talk like that?
Sargassum superblooms are choking coastlines around the Atlantic
Celebrating Ada Lovelace Day and the women who made the internet
Are attachment styles more than a social media trend?
The science and politics of the new mRNA flu vaccine
What is the Kelvin wave on the West Coast?
The punk rock life of cephalopods
The Nobel winner searching for deep-space neutrinos in Antarctica
How important ideas get reawakened, with David Byrne
'The History of Concrete' with John Wilson
The tilcayo is the new wild cat on the block
Are natural history museums going extinct?
Examining a new lunar crater + searching for signs of alien technology
Did the COVID pandemic stunt kids’ development?
How do concussions affect the brain?
Are new treatments for celiac disease on the horizon?
Everyone is calling for safer AI. So what does that mean?
Underwater archeology reveals clues about Ice Age humans
Climate change is increasing hurricane risk for Hawaiʻi
Bringing hard electronics into soft and squishy bodies
What is lymphatic drainage, anyway?
Hot flashes, hormone therapy, and the science of perimenopause
Telling the tale of human origins, one fossil tooth at a time
Did the fire at the Library of Alexandria set humanity back?
Black bears are moving into the neighborhood. How do we coexist?
Is a shorter course of antibiotics OK? + Genetic risk of fibromyalgia
Why cannabis’s health effects are so hard to study
Did scientists just find a dark matter particle? Maybe
Why physics and philosophy need each other
Recall rodeo: A food safety update + Why cars are catching fire
Is there science behind the ‘nervous system reset’?
For Jennifer Chayes, math is a 'native tongue'
What an mRNA melanoma vaccine may mean for cancer treatment
Why it's so hard to tell the age of a fungus
The power of the stories we tell about the ocean
What should astronauts do first when they reach Mars?
AI is everywhere in healthcare now. Doctors are conflicted
How much worse was that storm because of climate change?
How GPS shaped our world
The ancient Roman doctrine guiding modern environmental fights
What are the mysterious ‘little red dots’ in images of space?
Could we live in a dinosaur world?
Do microplastics in the body affect pregnancy?
Making a case for physicists to join climate research
Creating 'world models' for robots + An AI math shakeup
What can moments of lucidity teach us about Alzheimer’s?
Colorado’s snow drought deals a major blow to recreation
How do you find a ‘lost’ species?
What we get wrong about vaccine hesitancy
Why this lab studies the speed of bug pee and other curiosities
Some primates undergo even more extreme childbirth than humans
Deb Haaland is a politician, and proud of it
Sitting all day is terrible for us. Moving a little can help
A Nagasaki survivor and physician recounts his life's work
What do people eat? Plant and animal DNA in sewage provide clues
3D images of galaxies will rock you (ft. Queen)
The evolution of an enzyme engineer who changed chemistry
Why is brain cancer so hard to treat?
How can astronaut food be better?
The reality of living with extreme heat in India
Tracking shark populations, one shark at a time
The Black women codebreakers of the Cold War
Asha de Vos’ journey from deck hand to marine science leader
Why worry about my data If I have nothing to hide?
Peering through dust clouds to the center of the galaxy
Why a paper about relocating coastal communities hit a nerve
How do you piece together what life was like in Pompeii?
Hold the lettuce: Updates on the 'explosive' cyclospora outbreak
A space telescope launch + Alvin submersible check-up
How does a tick bite cause a red meat allergy?
What will our reaction be when we discover aliens?
Beautiful botflies, luscious leeches, and the wonder of parasites
China's booming biotech, from a brain implant to drug discovery
Reconnecting with the night sky and reining in light pollution
Amid shifting politics, can we build stable global health systems?
How does the gut-brain connection work?
Investigating ‘flow state’ with the bassist from Phish
How the US patent system keeps drug prices high
What was science like in America 250 years ago?
An artificial cell eats, grows, and reproduces. Is it alive?
Growing lunar potatoes + Dealing with razor-sharp moon dust
Even Nobel Prize winners deal with imposter syndrome
Squirrel poop drops Ice Age clues + The neuroscience of laughter
Promising new treatments for pancreatic cancer and ALS
That chlorine smell at the pool? It’s pee
Under proposed rule, science funding must pass political review
Can you learn to love the scorpion?
FDA approves a well-known sunscreen ingredient—finally
Why do sports announcers talk like that?
Swords, cannibalism, poison: inside the world of killer microbes
When music transports you to a different place
A vast whale graveyard + Zombie sea cucumbers
Should we bring mountain lions back to the Northeast?
Blue Origin explosion hits NASA timeline + Artemis III crew
Why can I handle tequila but not rum?
AI + turfgrass science in the most high-tech World Cup yet