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The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing
Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics
No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane
The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor
The Race for the Next Ozempic
Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
Hospitals Around the World Are Struggling in the Aftermath of the Great IT Meltdown
Newly Discovered Moon Caves Could One Day House Astronauts
To Find Alien Life, We Might Have to Kill It
The New UK Government Wants Clean Energy, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, and Public Transport Reform
It Will Soon Be Easier for Americans to Recycle Batteries
Google DeepMind's Chatbot-Powered Robot Is Part of a Bigger Revolution
Elon Musk’s Neuralink Is Ready to Implant a Second Volunteer
AI's Energy Demands Are Out of Control. Welcome to the Internet's Hyper-Consumption Era
The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
This Ancient Technology Is Helping Millions Stay Cool
Health Care Should Be Designed for the Extremes of Life
How a Group of Butterflies Managed to Fly 4,200 Kilometers Without Stopping
The UK’s NHS Going Digital Would Be Equivalent to Hiring Thousands of New Doctors
Sexist Myths Are a Danger to Health
Not Everyone Loses Weight on Ozempic
NASA Desperately Needs New Spacesuits. Private Firms Are Struggling to Make Them
Aging Might Not Be Inevitable
With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life
Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain
Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed
Science Is Full of Errors. Bounty Hunters Are Here to Find Them
Europe Scrambles for Relevance in the Age of AI
How to Take the Perfect Soccer Penalty
Starship’s Successful Test Moves SpaceX One Step Closer to Mars
Banks Are Finally Realizing What Climate Change Will Do to Housing
Sellers Call Amazon’s Buy Box ‘Abusive.’ Now They’re Suing
From the Archives: Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating
The 2024 US Open Is Designed to Thwart Golf’s Big Hitters
Apple Intelligence Will Infuse the iPhone With Generative AI
From the Archives: The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires
Apple's Biggest AI Challenge? Making It Behave
AI Tools Are Secretly Training on Real Images of Children
The World’s Largest Fungarium May Unlock the Mysteries of Carbon Capture
From the Archive: How a Firefly Course Is Saving Japan’s Favorite Glowing Insect
From the Archives: What Do We Owe the Octopus?
From the Archives: Why Scientists Are Bugging the Rainforest
Chatbot Teamwork Makes the AI Dream Work
From the Archives: What Science Says About Social Media and Mental Health
Why the EU’s Vice President Isn’t Worried About Moon-Landing Conspiracies on YouTube
Woman Who Received Pig Kidney Transplant Has It Removed
AI Is a Black Box. Anthropic Figured Out a Way to Look Inside
Ecuador Is Literally Powerless in the Face of Drought
From Security, Spoken: Deepfake Porn Is Out of Control
From Business, Spoken: Why Read Books When You Can Use Chatbots to Talk to Them Instead?
Chatbots Are Entering the Stone Age
Neuralink’s First User Is ‘Constantly Multitasking’ With His Brain Implant
From What's New: Stop Planting Trees, Says Guy Who Inspired World to Plant a Trillion Trees
Mexico Is So Hot, Monkeys Are Falling to Their Death From Trees
The Auroras Should Be Spectacular This Summer, Thanks to Solar Maximum
Don’t Believe the Biggest Myth About Heat Pumps
Pocket-Sized AI Models Could Unlock a New Era of Computing
How a Virus Found in Wastewater Beat Back a Woman’s ‘Zombie’ Bacteria
The World Is Ignoring the—Other—Deadly Kind of Carbon
Hydro Dams Are Struggling to Handle the World’s Intensifying Weather
City Trees Save Lives
An Epic Fight Over What Really Killed the Dinosaurs
Lab-Grown Meat Is on Shelves Now. But There’s a Catch
Saunas Are the Next Frontier in Fighting Depression
The First Person to Receive a Pig Kidney Transplant Has Died
These Artificial Blood Platelets Could One Day Save Lives
The Earth Is About to Feast on Dead Cicadas
Sell Lab-Grown Meat in Alabama and You Could Go to Jail
The One Thing That’s Holding Back the Heat Pump
Boeing's Starliner Is Finally Ready to Launch a NASA Crew Into Space
The US Is Cracking Down on Synthetic DNA
China Has a Controversial Plan for Brain-Computer Interfaces
She Painted a Few Champagne Bottles. Then Came Meta’s Customer Support Hell
Can’t Afford a House? Buy a Piece of One Instead
What’s the Safest Seat on an Airplane?
We Finally Know Where Neuralink’s Brain Implant Trial Is Happening
Doctors Combined a Heart Pump and Pig Kidney Transplant in Breakthrough Surgery
No, Dubai’s Floods Weren’t Caused By Cloud Seeding
Green Roofs Are Great. Blue-Green Roofs Are Even Better
Unruly Gut Fungi Can Make Your Covid Worse
The Rise of the Carbon Farmer
US Infrastructure Is Broken. Here’s an $830 Million Plan to Fix It
The Next Frontier for Brain Implants Is Artificial Vision
The Paradox That's Supercharging Climate Change
Can You Really Run on Top of a Train, Like in the Movies?
Trump Loyalists Kill Vote on US Wiretap Program
Mexico City’s Metro System Is Sinking Fast. Yours Could Be Next
He Got a Pig Kidney Transplant. Now Doctors Need to Keep It Working
Why the East Coast Earthquake Covered So Much Ground
Can You View a Round Solar Eclipse Through a Square Hole?
‘In 24 Hours, You’ll Have Your Pills:’ American Women Are Traveling to Mexico for Abortions
How to View April’s Total Solar Eclipse, Online and In Person
This Bag of Cells Could Grow New Livers Inside of People
Meet the Designer Behind Neuralink’s Surgical Robot
The Next Heat Pump Frontier? NYC Apartment Windows
The Real Reason Why Some Abortion Pill Patients Go to the ER
The Next Generation of Cancer Drugs Will Be Made in Space
Why the Baltimore Bridge Collapsed so Quickly
A Gene-Edited Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Person for the First Time
Are You Noise Sensitive? Here's How to Tell
Europe Is Struggling to Coexist With Wild Bears
The World's E-Waste Has Reached a Crisis Point
DeepMind Is Helping Soccer Teams Take the Perfect Corner
The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
So You Want to Rewire Brains
Get Ready to Eat Pond Plants
Is This New 50-Year Battery for Real?
Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea-Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking
A New Headset Aims to Treat Alzheimer’s With Light and Sound
Forget Carbon Offsets. The Planet Needs Carbon Removal Credits
Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That
A Tragic Tower Block Fire Exposes the World's Failing Fire Regulations
US Cities Could Be Capturing Billions of Gallons of Rain a Day
Humanity Is Dangerously Pushing Its Ability to Tolerate Heat
Alabama IVF Patients Are Running Out of Time
What Would Happen if Every American Got a Heat Pump
A New Startup Wants to Turn the Sugar You Eat Into Fiber
The Transport Companies Leaving Fossil Fuels Behind
Metal Prices Are Soaring. So Is Metal Theft
Tech Still Isn’t Doing Enough to Care for the Environment
Los Angeles Just Proved How Spongy a City Can Be
Kyiv Is Using Homegrown Tech to Treat the Trauma of War
The Leading Lab-Grown-Meat Company Just Paused a Major Expansion
Why Fake Caviar Could Be the Solution to Plastic Pollution
Farming Prioritizes Cows and Cars—Not People
Did Climate Change Help This Skier Achieve the Impossible?
Why Is Our Solar System Flat?
NASA’s New PACE Observatory Searches for Clues to Humanity’s Future
These States Are Basically Begging You to Get a Heat Pump
Dr. Dara Norman Wants to Bring More People Into Science
I Tested a Next-Gen AI Assistant. It Will Blow You Away
A Startup Has Unlocked a Way to Make Cheap Insulin
Inside the Beef Industry’s Campaign to Influence Schoolchildren
Fiber Optics Bring You Internet. Now They’re Also Listening to Trains
Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink’s Brain Implant
Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space Right Now
6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection
The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction
The World’s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble
The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now
Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment
A Scandal Is Tearing the World of Record-Breaking Dogs Apart
A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person—and Worked for 3 Days
Scabies Is Making a Comeback
The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever
The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max
Norway’s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning
Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ‘Coal’ and ‘Oil’ Back in the Ground
There’s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It
How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold
Yes, the Climate Crisis Is Now ‘Gobsmacking.’ But So Is Some Progress
Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast
A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive
Former NBA Star Rick Fox Is Making a Play for Carbon-Neutral Concrete
Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie
A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry
Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial
Snow Sports Are Getting More Dangerous
Energy Drinks Are Out of Control
You Know It’s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?
Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics
Elon Musk’s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation
How Dr. Clara Nellist Collides Art and Science
A Brilliant COP Agreement? It Depends Who You Ask
Here’s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything
This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From the Inside
The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US
Don’t Worry, It’s Just ‘Fire Ice’
Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah Is Reimagining Cancer Care
Ozempic Could Also Help You Drink Less Alcohol
Want to Store a Message in DNA? That’ll Be $1,000
Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn’t Stop There
Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ‘Hear’ Them
A Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment Is Under FDA Investigation—for Cancer Risk
Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space
Dr. Paula Johnson Is Breaking Down the Barriers to Better Health
It’s Time to Log Off
Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet
Emissions Should Be Plummeting. Instead, They’re Breaking Dangerous New Records
The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved
Dr. Alison Todd’s Inventions May Save Your Life
Dr. Michelle Wong Brings the Science of Skincare to New Audiences
A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol
Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial
The Hidden, Awful Way That Climate Change Imperils Animals
The FDA Approves Weight Loss Drug Zepbound, a Wegovy and Ozempic Rival
New Jersey Keeps Newborn DNA for 23 Years. Parents Are Suing
The Euclid Space Telescope’s Spectacular First Photos of Distant and Hidden Galaxies
The World’s Broken Food System Costs $12.7 Trillion a Year
Scientists Have Finally Found the Origins of a Mysterious Asteroid
The Ultra-Efficient Farm of the Future Is in the Sky
As Extreme Heat Increases, Heart Attacks Will Rise
Everyone Was Wrong About Why Cats Purr
These Plants Change Color When Exposed to a Pesticide
If You Didn’t Care About Antarctica’s Icy Belly, You Will Now
Why Antidepressants Take So Long to Work
The Mystery of Cosmic Radio Bursts Gets Bright New Clues
Glacial Lakes Threaten Millions in a Warming World
The Surprising Way Clean Energy Will Help Save the Snowpack
New Trials Aim to Restore Hearing in Deaf Children—With Gene Therapy
These Gene-Edited Chickens Were Made to Resist Bird Flu
Chum Salmon Are Spawning the Arctic. It’s an Ominous Sign
Inside the Race to Crush Paris’ Bedbug Crisis
NASA’s Psyche Mission Is Off to Test a Space Laser (for Communications)
A Groundbreaking Human Brain Cell Atlas Just Dropped
This First Peek Inside NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Capsule Is a Glimpse Back in Time
A Monkey Got a New Kidney From a Pig—and Lived for 2 Years
Heat Waves in the Ground Are Getting More Extreme—and Perilous
New Malaria Vaccines Offer a Real Shot at Fighting the Disease
How Neuralink Keeps Dead Monkey Photos Secret
A Lab Just 3D-Printed a Neural Network of Living Brain Cells
September's Record-Shattering Heat Was ‘Absolutely Gobsmackingly Bananas’
The ‘Green’ Future of Furniture Is a Sofa Stuffed With Seaweed
Why It’s Too Soon to Call It Covid Season
A Revelation About Trees Is Messing With Climate Calculations
DNA Drives Help Identify Missing People. It’s a Privacy Nightmare
How to Make a Pig Heart Transplant Last in a Person
How NASA Is Protecting Its Precious Asteroid Bennu Sample
NASA’s OSIRIS-REx Is About to Bring Asteroid Pieces Back to Earth
A Medieval French Skeleton Is Rewriting the History of Syphilis
The US Is Mobilizing an Army to Fight the Climate Crisis
A Pair of Sun Probes Just Got Closer to Solving a Solar Enigma
Here Come the Glow-in-the-Dark Houseplants
This Treaty Could Stop Plastic Pollution—or Doom the Earth to Drown in It
NASA Didn’t Find Aliens—but if You See Any UFOs, Holler
Libya’s Deadly Floods Show the Growing Threat of Medicanes
Covid Boosters Can’t Outpace New Mutations. Here’s Why They Still Work
Blue-Green Algae Is Filling Rivers With Toxic Sludge
The Investigation of SpaceX’s Starship Explosion Is Complete—and Elon Musk Has More Work to Do
Scientists Just Tried Growing Human Kidneys in Pigs
What Ever Happened to the Tiny House Movement?
A Flesh-Eating Bacterium Is Creeping North as Oceans Warm
Weight-Loss Drugs Ozempic and Wegovy Can Also Protect the Heart
The High-Stakes Calculus of Preventing Wildfires by Burying Power Lines
Paper Coffee Cups Are Just as Toxic for the Environment as Plastic Ones
DART Showed How to Smash an Asteroid. So Where Did the Space Shrapnel Go?
The Massive Campaign to Air-Drop Tiny Rabies Vaccines to Raccoons
The Race to Save Yellowknife From Raging Wildfires
The Battle Against the Fungal Apocalypse Is Just Beginning
India’s Lander Touches Down on the Moon. Russia’s Has Crashed
The Winds That Doomed Lahaina
How Hilary Turned Into a Monster Storm
Montana Youth Win a Historic Climate Case
Russia and India Are Racing to Put Landers on the Moon
Use of AI Is Seeping Into Academic Journals—and It’s Proving Difficult to Detect
How to Help and Donate to Wildfire Victims in Hawaii
Cities Aren’t Supposed to Burn Like This Anymore—Especially Lahaina
Injecting a Gene Into Monkeys’ Brains Curbed Their Alcohol Use
How NASA Nearly Lost the Voyager 2 Spacecraft Forever
The Scary Science of Maui’s Wildfires
The Weird Way That Human Waste Is Killing Corals
The Mystery Genes That Are Keeping You Alive
Everyone Was Wrong About Antipsychotics
Covid’s Summer Wave Is Rising—Again
This Prosthetic Limb Actually Attaches to the Wearer’s Nerves
The First Pill for Postpartum Depression Is Almost Here
The Mystery of the Colorado River’s Missing Water
Beauty Is in the Eye of the Beholder—but Memorability May Be Universal
Heat Waves Aren’t Just Getting Hotter—They’re Sticker Too
Why Scientists Are Clashing Over the Atlantic’s Critical Currents
Coming Soon Near You: Bears
This Rare Case of Green Hairy Tongue Is Pure Nightmare Fuel
This Startup Wants to Give Farmers a Closer Look at Crops—From Space
Ticks and the Diseases They Carry Are Spreading. Can This Drug Stamp Them Out?
Why Songs Get Stuck in Your Head—and How to Stop Them
The US Finally Approved an Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill. Here’s What to Know
An Ancient Battle Is Playing Out in the DNA of Every Embryo
Weird Weather Is Making Air Travel Even Worse
The Arctic Is a Freezer That’s Losing Power
A Hair Loss Study Raises New Questions About Aging Cells
Old Memories Can Prime Brains to Make New Ones
The Microplastic Crisis Is Getting Exponentially Worse
Why People Stop Using Drugs Like Ozempic
A Rare Domestic Resurgence of Malaria Is Circulating in the US
One Shot of a Kidney Protein Gave Monkeys a Brain Boost
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
Scientists Are Gene-Editing Flies to Fight Crop Damage
Air Pollution Is Deadlier Than You Think
Health Care Data Is a Researcher’s Gold Mine
More People Are Going Blind. AI Can Help Fight It
In the Future, Patients Won’t Go to the Hospital—It Will Come to Them
Heat Waves Are Unleashing a Deadly but Overlooked Pollutant
The Pain and Promise of Europe’s Abortion Laws
How to Find the Titanic Sub Before It’s Too Late
Bird Populations Are in Meltdown
Nuclear-Powered Cargo Ships Are Trying to Stage a Comeback
How to Check the Air Quality Near You
Psychedelic Therapy Is Here. Just Don’t Call It Therapy
Gentle Brain Stimulation Can Improve Memory During Sleep
Satellites Keep Photobombing Space Images. Astronomers Need a Fix
Bees Get All the Love. Won’t Someone Think of the Moths?
The Kakhovka Dam Collapse Is an Ecological Disaster
The Age of Flames Reaches the US East Coast
Genomics Are a Lifesaver for Patients With Rare Diseases
The Quest for a Switch to Turn on Hunger
A Secret Key to Saving Species Is Blowing in the Wind
The Race Is On to Crack an Artist’s ‘Test’ Signal From Aliens
A Pill Version of Ozempic Is Coming
Get Ready for 3D-Printed Organs and a Knife That ‘Smells’ Tumors
This Machine Makes You Hallucinate
Bring Back the Seabirds, Save the Climate
Antarctic Sea Ice Is at Record Lows. Is It an Alarming Shift?
You’re Allergic to the Modern World
New Alzheimer’s Drugs Offer Subtle Benefits—With Real Risks
Axiom’s Second Flight Paves the Way for a Commercial Space Station
How Chronic Illness Patients Are ‘Hacking’ Their Wearables
The Looming El Niño Could Cost the World Trillions of Dollars
A New Study Reveals the Traits That Speed Up Evolution
The First Crispr-Edited Salad Is Here
This Is the Quietest Sound in the Universe
Voyager 2 Gets a Life-Extending Power Boost in Deep Space
Your Dog Is a Secret Weapon in the Fight Against Cancer
The Weird Way Australia’s Bushfires Influenced a Weirder La Niña
The End of the Covid Emergency Is a Warning
Everyone Was Wrong About Reverse Osmosis—Until Now
The Long Covid Mystery Has a New Suspect
A New Cloned Horse Offers Hope for Endangered Species
The Modern World Is Aging Your Brain
Is Cosmology Broken? This Map May Be a Crucial Puzzle Piece
Deadly Heat Threatens the Well-Being of 1 Billion People in India
An Ominous Heating Event Is Unfolding in the Oceans
The Quest for Longevity Is Already Over
As Sea Levels Rise, the East Coast Is Also Sinking
This Private Moon Lander Is Kicking Off a Commercial Lunar Race
Forget Cars, Green Hydrogen Will Supercharge Crops
A Critical Arctic Organism Is Now Infested With Microplastics
The Supreme Court Has Delayed Its Abortion Pill Decision
The Search for Long Covid Treatments Takes a Promising Turn
The Biggest Microbiome Study Sheds New Light on Shared Health Risks
A ‘Morning-After Pill’ for Sexually Transmitted Infections Is Almost Here
Diseases Didn’t Just Shape History, They Control the Future
The Abortion Pill Legal Standoff Endangers Access to All Drugs
The Massive ‘Batteries’ Hidden Beneath Your Feet
Genetically Modified Houseplants Are Coming to Clean Your Air
Stem Cell ‘Junk Yards’ Reveal a New Clue About Aging
NASA Is Getting Really Serious About Tracking Air Pollution
Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells Into ‘Synthetic Embryos’
The ‘Little Bang’ Helping Physicists Study the Infant Universe
Finally, an Honest Conversation About Contraception
Your First Lab-Grown Burger Won’t Contain Much Beef
How Do People Live in Orbit? Ask the Space Archeologists
This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer
The Chemical Menace Inside Glaciers and Icebergs
Plastics Are Devastating the Guts of Seabirds
California’s Atmospheric Rivers Are Getting Worse
Climate Freeloaders Are Destroying the Planet
This Is the Lightest Paint in the World
The Quest for Injectable Brain Implants Has Begun
The Climate Report That Foretells Humanity’s Future
Your Tap Water Is Filthy, but That Could Finally Change
How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space
How to Create Your Optimal Bedtime Routine
How to Lucid Dream (Even if You Think You Can’t)
The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
The World’s First 3D-Printed Rocket Is About to Launch
No One Knows if You Need Another Covid Booster
It’s Time for a Flu Vaccine—for Birds
Tiny, Explosive ‘Jetlets’ Might Be Fueling the Solar Wind
The Food System Is Awful for the Climate. It Doesn’t Have to Be
As Kenya’s Crops Fail, a Fight Over GMOs Rages
How Old Are You, Really? New Tests Want to Tell You
The Disruptors Who Want to Make Death Greener
Cute Animals Are Overrated. Let’s Save the Weird Ones
You Can Turn Your Backyard Into a Biodiversity Hotspot
No One Knows If Decades-Old Nukes Would Actually Work
On-Demand Rocket Launches Are Coming
A Stroke Paralyzed Her Arm. This Implant Let Her Use It Again
Rovers Are So Yesterday. It’s Time to Send a Snakebot to Space
Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo?
A Bold Plan to Beam Solar Energy Down From Space
MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time
The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years
Did the Seeds of Life Ride to Earth Inside an Asteroid?
How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis
A Looming El Niño Could Dry the Amazon
Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice
At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up
The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem
Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?
Hey EV Owners: It’d Take a Fraction of You to Prop Up the Grid
It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects
Medieval monks were, in many ways, the original LinkedIn power users
Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat
Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages
The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers
This Seriously Hipster Bean Is Coffee’s Best Hope for Survival
The Key to California's Survival Is Hidden Underground
Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
The US Just Greenlit High-Tech Alternatives to Animal Testing
What This Fearsome Weapon Reveals About Early Americans
Meet the Earth’s Lawyers
Climate Enforcers Need Hard Evidence. Friederike Otto Has It
Why Do You Get Sick in the Winter? Blame Your Nose
Drug Shortages Aren’t New. The Tripledemic Just Made You Look
In the Next Pandemic, Let’s Pay People to Get Vaccinated
2022 Wasn't the Hottest on Record. That's Nothing to Celebrate
Let’s Go to Mars. Let’s Not Live There
You Don’t Need to Fear a World of 8 Billion Humans
Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants
Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise
A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing
The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield
The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?
How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet?
How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives
The Grim Origins of an Ominous Methane Surge
Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter
A Smart Way to Get Ahead of the Next Flu Surge
The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
The Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe
The Next Great Overdose-Reversing Drug Might Already Exist
The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches
This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone
Electronic Second Skins Are the Wearables of the Future
The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures Is Here
A Proactive Way to Detect Cancer at Its Earliest Stages
Pop-Up Farming Pods to Help Colonizers Grow Crops on Mars
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
'Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells
For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers
Vertical Farming Needs to Grow More Than Salad
How to Use a Laser to Kick an Electron out of a Molecule
Turns Out Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes Actually Works
Tiny Aerosols Pose a Big Predicament in a Warming World
NASA Will Not Change the James Webb Telescope's Name
Your Phone Can Determine If a Bridge Is Busted
Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
No, Qatar’s World Cup Can’t Be Classed as Carbon-Neutral
Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change May Finally Get Their Due
Brace Yourself for a Triple Wave of Seasonal Viruses
This Gulp of Engineered Bacteria Is Meant to Treat Disease
This Personalized Crispr Therapy Is Designed to Attack Tumors
How Peaceful Crowds Turn Into a Deadly Crush
The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real
A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
This Platform Makes Sure Companies Stick to Their Climate Pledges
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface—Using Shadows
The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns
Rats Are Invasive Menaces. These Cameras Spy on Them
A New Tool for Eruption Forecasting: Carbon-Catching Drones
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
Cities Need More Native Bees—Lots and Lots of Adorable Bees
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
It’s Time to Treat Housing Insecurity as a Health Risk
The FCC's Rules on Space Junk Just Got Stricter
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr
Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups
A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand
What Is a Wetland Worth?
How to Find Your Vaccine History—and Store It Safely
There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria
The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
Teaching ‘Selfish’ Wind Turbines to Share Can Boost Productivity
New Reservoirs Could Help Battle Droughts, but at What Cost?
The Legendary Frank Drake Shaped the Search for Alien Life
Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric
Why Pain Feels Worse at Night
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black Hole
This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness
Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand
To Fight Severe Drought, China Is Turning to Technology
Can a Particle Accelerator Trace the Origins of Printing?
Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers
Swarms of Satellites Are Tracking Illegal Fishing and Logging
Satellites Keep the World’s Clocks on Time. What if They Fail?
This Giant Sprinkler System Can Protect Cities from Wildfires
Egg and Sperm Donors Could Be Required to Share Their Medical Records
At Some Colleges, the Fall of Roe Will Weaken Student Health Care
How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse
New Evidence Points to the Moon Once Being Part of Earth
Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?
As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk
Doctors Are Pioneering a Better Way to Perform Autopsies on Kids
What If Cells Kept Receipts of Their Gene Expression?
This Laser-Firing Truck Could Help Make Hot Cities More Livable
The Psychology of Inspiring Everyday Climate Action
Swarms of Mini Robots Could Dig the Tunnels of the Future
Monkeypox Originated in Animals. Could It Spill Back Into Them?
The Pigs Died. Then Scientists Revived Their Cells
A Minimalist Approach to the Hunt for Dark Matter
NASA is Crowdsourcing Cloud Research—on Mars
How to Prevent Another European Transport Meltdown
This Stamp-Sized Ultrasound Patch Can Image Internal Organs
NASA Delayed the Psyche Launch. Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal
California Wants to Make Cheap Insulin. Here’s How It Could Work
Ring Vaccination Beat Smallpox. Could It Work for Monkeypox?
Nuclear Power Plants Are Struggling to Stay Cool
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The Squishy, Far-Out New Experiments Headed to the ISS
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A New Way to Shape Metal Nanoparticles—With a Magnetic Field
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Climate Change Is Erasing Humanity’s Oldest Art
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Physicists Pin Down the Nuclear Reaction Just After the Big Bang
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