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You Share Your Gut Microbiome With Your Friends

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Marie Curie And The Women Scientists Who Became Her Legacy

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Protecting Against Poison Exposure This Holiday Season

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2024’s Best Science Books For Kids

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Supreme Court Case On Regulation Of Vapes | Predicting Lithium-Ion Battery Explosions

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A Theatrical Tribute To Unexpected Science

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'They Might Be Giants' Sings About Science

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What Was It Like To Witness The End Of The Dinosaurs?

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A Nobel Prize For Chemistry Work ‘Totally Separate From Biology’

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Alan Alda Reflects On Life With Parkinson’s

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A Horn Of Potato Plenty | Adding Marbling To Fake Meat For An Extra-Realistic Bite

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A Nutritionist Clarifies Some Common Health Claims

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Restoring Drinking Water After Hurricane Helene | Oyster Shell Reefs And Sea Level Rise

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50 Years Of Science With Lucy, Our Famous Early Ancestor

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SpaceX’s Starship Completes In-Orbit Engine Test | Resuscitating Shipwrecked Rye Seeds

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Chef Jack Bishop Breaks Down ‘The Science of Good Cooking’

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Bacteriophages Lurk In Your Bathroom, But Don’t Worry

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Managing Invasive Plants And Ticks Together | Clue Into The Evolution Of The Bird Brain

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The Gurgling, Growling History Of The Gut

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At COP29, The World’s Top Polluters Are No-Shows | Walking Pneumonia Is Spiking

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Oliver Sacks Searched The Brain For The Origins Of Music

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CAR-T Cell Therapy For Autoimmune Diseases | Measuring Early Life Adversity—In Marmots

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Your Arm Position Can Make Blood Pressure Readings Inaccurate

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Why Do We Keep Widening Highways If It Doesn’t Reduce Traffic?

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Ballot Measures Passed To Protect Abortion Rights | New Largest Prime Number

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Chickens Have Friendships And Reputations | Tourist Photos May Help Map Penguin Colonies

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The Clean Air Act Has Saved Millions Of Lives—But Gaps Remain

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How Does Long-Distance Running Affect Your Body?

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Gender-Affirming Care Is On The Line In This Election

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Maine Offshore Wind Auction Draws Few Bids | An Artist Combines Indigenous Textiles With Modern Tech

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After A Park Fire, Milkweed Bloomed | The ‘Creepy’ Procedure That Taps Into Young Blood

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How Insects Changed The World—And Human Cultures

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The Science Behind Third-Trimester Abortions

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How Aging Water Systems Are Pushing Sewage Into U.S. Homes

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Did Dinosaur Flight Evolve More Than Once? | Biodiversity’s Biggest Event Is Underway

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How Do Animals Understand Death?

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MRIs Show How The Brain Changes During Pregnancy

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How Metaphor Shapes Science | Intertwining The Lives Of Moths And Humans Through Music

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NASA’s Europa Clipper Heads To Jupiter’s Icy Moon Europa

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Pandas Return To Washington, D.C. | A Lesser-Known Grain Called Kernza

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How Health Misinformation Spreads | A Play About Ben Franklin And His Son

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Searching The Universe For Clues To The Ultra-Small

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What Makes ‘SuperAgers’ Stay Healthy For So Long?

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Asheville Was Never A ‘Climate Haven.’ Nowhere Is.

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The Science Behind Hurricane Milton | ‘Unsettling’ Warm Water In Lake Michigan

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How Campaigns Use Psychology To Get Out The Vote

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How Gut Microbes Are Linked To Stress Resilience

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How Magnetic Brain Stimulation Helps Relieve Depression

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How The Origin Of Life On Earth Can Help Find Life In Space

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Hurricane Helene's Effect On The Global Tech Industry | A Stretchy Band-Aid For The Heart

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Herbicides Approved For Public Land | Hidden Physics In Van Gogh’s ‘The Starry Night’

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Improving Hospitals’ Support For Teens In Mental Health Crises

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Greenhouse Gases From Anesthesia | Fighting Militarization In The Mariana Islands

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Empowering Older Adults To Step Up For The Climate

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Microsoft Makes Deal To Restart Three Mile Island | Fish That Use Their Legs To Taste

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Former NIH Director Reflects On Public Mistrust In Science

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How Are AI Chatbots Changing Scientific Publishing?

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These Artists Serve Up Environmental Crises Through Food

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Surgeon General Takes On Parental Stress And Mental Health

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Earth May Once Have Had A Ring Like Saturn | An AI For Sand

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Physicists Create Heaviest Antimatter Nucleus | Bird Species May Team Up For Migration

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Your Questions About The Updated COVID Vaccines, Answered

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To Confront Climate Change, Imagine Getting It Right

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What Research Shows About Smartphone Bans In Schools

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First Citizen Spacewalk | First Successful Whole-Eye Transplant, Over A Year Later

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‘Time Capsule’ Rocks And Earth’s Mantle | Genetically Engineering Stronger Wood

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To This Neuroscientist, Cows Are Like Puppies

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Fishing For—And Saving—Sharks | Scientists Identify ‘ManhattAnt’ Spreading Across NYC

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Using DNA To Boost Digital Data Storage And Processing

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An Asteroid Impact, Spotted In Advance | Extreme Heat Is Making Learning More Difficult

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Dino-Killing Asteroid Was Rich In Carbon | The Dogs Sniffing Out Spotted Lanternflies

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Why Eels Are So Mysterious—And In Demand

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Webb Telescope Data Point To Six ‘Rogue Worlds’

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Could ‘Season Creep’ Affect Human Behavior?

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Mosquito-Borne Diseases Are Spreading | ‘Slingshot’ And A Space Mission Gone Wrong

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The History Of Teeth, From Ancient Fish To Humans

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Errors On Death Certificates May Be Skewing Mortality Data

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Astronaut Cady Coleman On ‘Sharing Space’

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Protecting Sequoias From Wildfire Gets Tricky | Ancient Cave Art And Human Creativity

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Plastic In Human Brains | Local Anesthetics Recommended For IUD Insertion

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Don’t Just Walk In The Woods—Touch, Smell, and Taste Them, Too

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Are Space Elevators Really A Possibility?

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Could Light And Sound Therapy Treat Alzheimer’s?

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Dr. Fauci On A Life Of Medical Research And Public Service

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Evidence For Liquid Water On Mars | Making Campsite Booking Fairer

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Dinosaurs’ Secrets Might Be In Their Fossilized Poop

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The Promise Of Perovskite Solar Panels

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An Expert Vegetable Breeder On Innovating Crops For The Future

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What The Private Sale Of Fossils Means For Paleontology

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Starliner Leaves Astronauts Stuck | Could We Get Weather Forecasts Years In Advance?

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Why Does COVID-19 Spike In Summer?

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Deep-Sea ‘Nodules’ May Produce Oxygen | A Bird’s Physics Trick For High-Altitude Flying

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PLATO’s Mission To Discover Exoplanets Like Earth

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Why Cancer Death Rates Have Decreased Over The Last 30 Years

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Hawaiʻi Wildfire Survivors Join Health Study | Wind Turbine Blade Sinks Off Massachusetts Coast

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The Science And History Of Refrigeration

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Sodium Replaces Lithium In A New Type Of Battery

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Inside The Race To Save Honeybees From Parasitic Mites

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What A Rodent Brain Shows Us About Love | If Colorado Was Flattened, How Big Would It Be?

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Curiosity Rover Discovers Pure Sulfur On Mars | A Science Hero, Lost and Found