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What Are The Risks Of Drinking Raw Milk?

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A Space Suit To Turn Pee Into Water | A Bitcoin Mine Causing A Health Crisis In Texas

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How A Shark Scientist Forged Her Own Path

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FDA Panel Rejects MDMA Therapy For PTSD

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A Small Meteor Blazes Over New York City | Tornado Science From ‘Twisters’

606

Why Are There So Many Drug Shortages In The U.S.?

607

What The Small Intestine Can Tell Us About Gut Health

608

Helping Queen Conchs Mate In The Florida Keys

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How Congestion Pricing Can Impact Human Health

610

Galaxies ‘Dance’ In Stunning New JWST Image | Why Some Cats Scratch Furniture

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Your Pain Tolerance May Have Been Passed Down From Neanderthals

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How Can Iowa’s Agriculture Adapt To Climate Threats?

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How Do They Actually Store The Declaration Of Independence?

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How Politics And Diplomacy Shape Panda Conservation

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The Best Science Books For Summer 2024

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Avoiding Grilling and Barbecue Pitfalls

617

From Microbes To Mammoths: How Life Transformed The Planet

618

Study Shows Which Kids Are Getting Periods Younger Than Others

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What To Do When Your Hypothesis Is Wrong? Publish!

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The Sample From The Far Side Of The Moon | Will The Seine Be Clean Enough For The Olympics?

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The Octopus Overlooked By Science | Squid With ‘Giant’ Eggs Could Be New Species

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House Stalls On Bill To Compensate Victims Of Nuclear Testing

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Crowdsourced Data Identifies 126 ‘Lost’ Bird Species

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20 Years Later, How Are City Climate Plans Actually Going?

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It’s Hot. But How Hot? | Canine Cancer Vaccine Shows Promising Results

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Mannequins Help Teach People How To Spot Ticks | Protecting A Flickering Symbol Of Summer Nights

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‘The Singularity Is Nearer,’ Says Futurist Ray Kurzweil

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Why Do Cephalopods Make Ink?

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Meet The Emotions Behind Teenage Angst In ‘Inside Out 2’

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Elephants Seem To Use Names For Each Other | Kids Discover Rare T. Rex Fossil

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How Sound Rules Life Underwater

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Metal-Absorbing Plants Could Make Mining Greener | A Tiny Fern's Gigantic Genome

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How Psychological Warfare Moved From Battlefields To Politics

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Step Aside, DNA. It’s RNA’s Time To Shine.

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A Week Of Milestones For Spaceflight | Mexico Has Elected A Scientist President

636

The Organ That Gives Birds Their Voices | Common Loons Are Pop Music Icons

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Indigenous Nations Are Fighting To Take Back Their Data

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The Unseen World Of Plant Intelligence

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Right-To-Repair Laws Gain Steam In State Legislatures

640

Starliner Crewed Test Flight Rescheduled | Slugs And Snails Like Cities

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Your ‘Biological Age’ Could Be Different Than How Old You Are

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High-Speed Rail Gets A Boost In The U.S.

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Using A Lab On Wheels To Study Weed From Dispensaries

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Jelly Creatures That Swim In Corkscrews | Keeping Wind Turbines Safe For Birds

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Zapping Nerves Into Regrowth | Celebrating the Maya Calendar In Guatemala’s Highlands

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Fine-Tuning Grapes For Iowa’s Wine Industry

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How To Recycle Rare Earth Elements

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New Evidence Questions Dark Energy’s ‘Constant’ Nature

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New Guidelines Recommend Earlier Breast Cancer Screening

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New Rule Sets Stage For Electric Grid Update | Harnessing Nanoparticles For Vaccines

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How Climate Change Is Changing Sports

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Why Is Tinnitus So Hard To Understand And Treat?

653

Finding Purpose In A ‘Wild Life’

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Archeopteryx Specimen Unveiled | Trees And Shrubs Burying Great Plains' Prairies

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JWST Detects An Atmosphere Around A Rocky Exoplanet | Boeing Plans To Fly Humans To The ISS Next Week

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Challenging The Gender Gap In Sports Science

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What Martian Geology Can Teach Us About Earth

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How Louisiana Is Coping With Flooding In Cemeteries

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Inside Iowa State’s Herbarium | Science-Inspired Art From ‘Universe of Art’ Listeners

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Science From Iowa’s Prairies | Planning To Go See Cicadas? Here’s What To Know

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Maybe Bonobos Aren't Gentler Than Chimps | Art Meets Ecology In A Mile-Long Poem

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When Products Collect Data From Your Brain, Where Does It Go?

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Visualizing A Black Hole’s Flares In 3D

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The 4,000-Year History of Humans and Silk

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Flint’s Water Crisis, 10 Years Later | Underwater Cables Could Help Detect Tsunamis

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Fighting Banana Blight | Do Birds Sing In Their Dreams?

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Why Is Solving The Plastic Problem So Hard?

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What Worsening Floods Mean For Superfund Sites

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The Global Mental Health Toll Of Climate Change | Capturing DNA From 800 Lakes In One Day

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Clean Energy Transition Progress | Avian Flu In Cattle And Humans Has Scientists Concerned

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A Cheer For The Physics Of Baseball

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Carbon Cost Of Urban Gardens And Commercial Farms | Why There's No Superbloom This Year

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Inside The Race To Save Honeybees From Parasitic Mites

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The Brain’s Glial Cells Might Be As Important As Neurons

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Limits On ‘Forever Chemicals’ In Drinking Water | An Important Winter Home For Bugs | Eclipse Drumroll

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Investigating Animal Deaths At The National Zoo

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Eating More Oysters Helps Us—And The Chesapeake Bay

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How Trees Keep D.C. And Baltimore Cool

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Predicting Heart Disease From Chest X-Rays With AI | Storing New Memories During Sleep

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Recipient Of Pig Kidney Transplant Recovering | Answering Your Questions About April 8 Eclipse

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Our Inevitable Cosmic Apocalypse

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The Complicated Truths About Offshore Wind And Right Whales

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The Bumpy Road To Approving New Alzheimer’s Drugs

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‘3 Body Problem’ And The Laws Of Physics | In Defense Of ‘Out Of Place’ Plants

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Baltimore Bridge Collapse | Mapping How Viruses Jump Between Species

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The Legacy Of Primatologist Frans de Waal

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The ‘Asteroid Hunter’ Leading The OSIRIS-REx Mission

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Swimming Sea Lions Teach Engineers About Fluid Dynamics

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Botanical Rescue Centers Take In Illegally Trafficked Plants

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2023 Was Hottest Year On Record | The NASA Satellite Studying Plankton

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A Strange-Looking Fish, Frozen In Time

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What We Know After 4 Years Of COVID-19

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Science Unlocks The Power Of Flavor In ‘Flavorama’

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Abortion-Restrictive States Leave Ob-Gyns With Tough Choices

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Nasal Rinsing Safely | How Your Brain Constructs Your Mental Health

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A New Book Puts ‘Math in Drag’

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With This Rare Disorder, No Amount Of Sleep Is Enough

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How Election Science Can Support Democracy | The Genetic Roots Of Antibiotic Resistance

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Triple Feature: Dune, Mars, And An Alien On Earth

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Could This Be The End Of Voyager 1?