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The Middle + SciFri: How Can Trust In Science Be Restored?
Untangling The History Of Dog Domestication
A Science Historian Tackles Ghostwriting In Scientific Papers
How China Is Driving Down Electricity Costs With Renewables
Managing The Risks Of Spaceflight, 40 Years After Challenger
How A Mutation Made This Year’s Flu Season So Bad
Tracking The Toxic Fallout Of The LA Fires
Deepfakes Are Everywhere. What Can We Do?
Looking Beyond Statins For New Ways To Lower Cholesterol
States Expected To See More ‘Anti-Science’ Bills This Year
What’s Happening On The Slippery Surface Of Ice?
Teasing Apart The Causes And Early Signs Of Parkinson’s
What Greenland Sharks Are Teaching Us About Aging Eyes
Secrets Of Ancient Concrete, And... Data Centers In Space?
One Year Into Trump’s Term, Where Does Science Funding Stand?
Drilling Into The Details Of Venezuela’s Oil
‘The Kissing Bug’ And The Story Of A Neglected Disease
Are Raccoons On The Road To Domestication?
The Community Group Rethinking LA's Approach To Wildfires
What Should Astronauts Do First When They Reach Mars?
Can The Rise In Solar Power Balance Out Clean Energy Cuts?
Are Ultramarathoners Just Built Different?
Your Cells Are Always Building A Whole New You
A Look Back At 2025 In Science, From Federal Cuts To Space Junk
How Death Metal Singers Make Their Extreme Vocalizations
What The Sigma Is Algospeak?
Tangling With Entanglement And Other Big Ideas In Physics
The Science Of Thriving In Winter—By Embracing It
A Neurologist Investigates His Own Musical Hallucinations
‘Prehistoric Planet’ Defrosts Strange Animals Of The Ice Age
How Did Vaccine Policies Actually Change In 2025?
Why Astronomers Are Excited About Comet 3I/ATLAS’ Close Approach
‘Fire Amoeba’ Likes It Hot, And A Faraway Lava Planet
What’s The Reality Behind The Humanoid Robot Hype?
'Just' A Blue Jay? Don't Overlook These Magnificent Common Birds
Can We Just Throw Our Plastic Garbage Into A Volcano?
How Did Ancient Humans Use The Acoustics Of Spaces Like Caves?
What The Sounds Of Melting Glaciers Can Tell Us
How A Fringe Idea Led To Lifesaving Cancer Treatments
Why Is Bubonic Plague Still With Us?
Don’t Let Their Name Fool You—Sea Slugs Are Awesome
As Companies Build Data Centers For AI, Communities Push Back
A Toast To Bats That Pollinate Agave, And Tracking Monarchs
A Startling Plan To Save Spotted Owls—From Barred Owls
Can A Microbe Conservation Movement Take Off?
How To Tap Into The Hidden Histories Of Rocks
Fingernails And Indigestion At The 2025 Ig Nobel Prizes
Why Is Working Out Good For Your Mental Health?
Everything You Never Knew About Squash And Pumpkins
Where Does Plastic And Other Trash Go After We Throw It Away?
‘A Many-Headed Beast’: Telling The Story Of Cancer
African Grey Parrots Are Popular—And It’s Fueling Illegal Trade
Attention, Trivia Nerds! It’s A Food Science Fact Feast
Can Animal Super-Agers Teach Us Their Secrets?
How Alphafold Has Changed Biology Research, 5 Years On
How A Woodpecker Pecks Wood, And How Ants Crown A Queen
Memories Change. But Can We Change Them On Purpose?
Bearded Vulture Nests Hold Trove Of Centuries-Old Artifacts
Why The Bassist From Phish Is Funding Research Into ‘Flow State’
Even Nobel Prize Winners Deal With Imposter Syndrome
Study Finds COVID mRNA Vaccines Boost Cancer Treatment
Were Dinos On Their Way Out Before The Asteroid Hit? Maybe Not
Is There Such A Thing As Too Much Resolution On A TV?
Can A Billion-Dollar Barricade Keep Carp Out Of The Great Lakes?
Inside The Race To Save Wild Axolotls
Endometriosis Is Common. Why Is Getting Diagnosed So Hard?
Why Hasn’t Wave Energy Gotten Its Sea Legs Yet?
A Halloween Monster Mashup, And A Spooky Lakes Tour
What Happens To Your Digital Presence After You Die?
Why Morbid Curiosity Is So Common—And So Fun
Peanut Allergies In Kids Are Finally On The Decline
How Do Bacteria Talk To Each Other?
A Lab-Grown Salmon Taste Test And More Foodie Innovations
What Did It Feel Like To Be An Early Human?
TikTok Is Shaping How We Think About ADHD
Footage Shows How Narwhals Use Tusks To Hunt And Play
Have Astrophysicists Spotted Evidence For ‘Dark Stars’?
AI Was Supposed To Discover New Drugs. Where Are They?
How Math Helps Us Map The World
The Science Of Replacing Body Parts, From Hair To Hearts
It’s Not Just You—Bad Food Habits Are Hard To Shake
100 Years Later, Quantum Science Is Still Weird
An Off-The-Grid Nobel Win, And Antibiotics In Ancient Microbes
World Space Week And Promising Climate Tech Companies
The Story Behind The Largest Dam Removal In U.S. History
How Archaeologists Try To Smell, Hear, And Taste The Past
Moth Survival Strategies And A Rodent Thumbnail Mystery
As The CDC Falters, How Do We Fill Public Health Gaps?
Anthropologists Have A Bone To Pick With New Skull Finding
Remembering Primatologist Jane Goodall
What Do We Know About SSRI Antidepressant Withdrawal?
Asha de Vos’ Journey From Deck Hand To Marine Science Leader
Why Painters Are Obsessed With The Duck Stamp Art Contest
Can Better Equipment Eliminate Concussions In Sports?
Is Tylenol Use During Pregnancy Connected To Autism?
How AI Advances Are Improving Humanoid Robots
The High-Tech Lab Unlocking Secrets Of Coral Reproduction
The Humble Microbe Could Help Us Understand Life Itself
Raising A New Generation Of Bat Conservationists In West Africa
How Conservation Efforts Brought Rare Birds Back From The Brink