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What can seashells teach us about the health of our oceans?

2

Football is here – and so is a new study on CTE

3

NASA's newest telescope has a top secret past

4

How your metabolism could alter your mental health

5

AI-made viruses could be the future of medicine

6

How much has the U.S.’s wildlife changed since Lewis and Clark?

7

Why scientists are stoked about mysterious black hole stars

8

More men are taking testosterone. What gives?

9

A survivor's view from inside a tornado

10

Could future wars be fought by AI?

11

Inside Colombia's big quake – and why more could be coming

12

How to see the year's best meteor shower tonight

13

Can you spot AI-written stories? Listen and find out

14

How to see this week's eclipse (and the next big one)

15

Mirror cells could threaten life on Earth. Why are we building them?

16

The Midnight Rebellion: Almost Midnight

17

The red flags that may be hiding in your poop

18

Shooting stars are just pea-sized rocks... and other space wonders

19

More food and money, less disease: Senegal's surprising eco-experiment

20

The new era of AI-powered cybercrime

21

Want to spend a year living in NASA's Mars simulation?

22

Are extreme wildfires the new normal?

23

A cooler of eggs and a bold plan to save leopard sharks

24

Could this nasal spray replace all your vaccines one day?

25

The problem with modern avocados — and the ancient solution

26

Does the science of peptides live up to the hype?

27

Cyclosporiasis: the science, risks and red flags

28

Are Trump and AI driving a nuclear power boom?

29

Why did designing the World Cup pitches take eight years?

30

Our favorite brains, including Einstein's stolen one

31

What's this super-aging butterfly’s longevity secret?

32

How should we decide who, or what, is conscious?

33

Plot twist: We're probably way undercounting insects on Earth

34

NASA's race against time to rescue a falling satellite

35

Could this anti-aging dog pill lead to one for you too?

36

Sky Uber? Air taxis could be here soon

37

This July 4th, are you a thrill- or chill-seeker?

38

Is setting your trash on fire a good idea?

39

Ticks are a growing problem, no matter where you live

40

Is working from home actually good for you?

41

Salty Clouds aren’t the only strange thing about this object in space

42

Did Trump's foreign aid cuts fuel the Ebola outbreak?

43

What can a tornado teach us about kindness?

44

Inside the mysterious minds of horses

45

Why scientists launched two little robots to the moon

46

Is sewage the future of green aviation?

47

Could air pollution make your memory worse?

48

Inside the lab taste-testing the world's chocolate

49

Why your sunscreen is finally getting a major upgrade

50

How a single flu shot could protect you for decades

51

Your DNA is changing all the time. Here’s why

52

Inner monologues are still a mystery

53

Prepare to be baffled by what we don't know about eels

54

This common garden plant summons wasps as bodyguards

55

Why are scientists planting tiny forests in big cities?

56

Why you can't stop scrolling: the science of 'dark flow'

57

This distant planet has wild weather and gemstone clouds

58

Should we reengineer the world's deadliest animal?

59

Is it getting windier?

60

The magic — and science — of synchronous fireflies

61

The supertree shielding coastlines and storing carbon

62

Why renaming this common hormonal disorder is a huge deal

63

A solution for California's water woes

64

What's up with your nightmares?

65

A chemical found in fish could help reinvent your sunscreen

66

Should you be fibermaxxing? Here's what the science says

67

Why Swedish scientists gave salmon cocaine

68

Without this pill, lots of people would be dead

69

Hantavirus: the risks, the science and what you need to know

70

How science is taking tripping mainstream

71

This medical condition stumped doctors for years

72

The secret behind clownfish stripes and more fishy fascinations

73

Coffee is complex. Can science standardize it for the better?

74

NASA is practicing moonwalks. When are we going back?

75

Set up solar, or save a tree? It’s complicated

76

The mystery that led this family to get their stomachs removed

77

Why a chimp 'civil war' shows how societies collapse

78

Where did our moon come from?

79

Eating disorder recovery in a diet culture world

80

These voicemails save lives

81

The psychology behind why you dread small talk

82

A new approach to brain health, one neuron at a time

83

Is there still a gender gap in medical research?

84

Are you pooping all wrong?

85

Who's to blame for all this plastic?

86

Quantum physics is for everybody

87

Why are bees special? We get inside a hive to find out

88

The world is running out of helium — again

89

Never had the flu? Scientists may know why

90

Why is NASA going to the moon again?

91

Predicting spring bloom is an art and a science

92

Space news: Project Hail Mary, Artemis, data centers

93

What's up with recycled wastewater's PR problem?

94

The world’s freshwater is getting saltier. Why?

95

The world has a groundwater problem. Can we solve it?

96

Day Zero: When the wells run dry

97

How did these flowers evolve to survive a megadrought?

98

A dietitian and doctor review RFK Jr's new food pyramid

99

‘Black rain’ in Iran and the environmental cost of war

100

This is your brain on pleasure (even the guilty kind)

101

An icy mystery: What are lake stars?

102

We saved gray whales from extinction. Why are so many dying again?

103

Sibling order may affect sexuality and identity

104

What crocodile bones teach us about dinosaurs

105

Teen sleep is getting wrecked by more than just phones

106

The global fallout of RFK Jr.'s vaccine policies

107

Will Punch the baby monkey be okay?

108

Spring ice is thawing earlier in lakes. What does that mean for life below the surface?

109

The dangers of warming winter lakes

110

Screen time is up for grandma and grandpa

111

Could our trash become local fishes’ treasure?

112

The serious hunt for alien life

113

The noise that isn't there

114

The truth about intermittent fasting

115

The neuroscience of cracking under pressure

116

Tea time... with an ape?

117

Could this vaccine trial mean a future without HIV?

118

Why do we kiss? It's an evolutionary conundrum

119

AI is great at predicting text. Can it guide robots?

120

The physics of the Winter Olympics

121

These bacteria may be key to the fight against antibiotic resistance

122

Babies got beat: Why rhythm might be innate

123

How do extreme G-forces affect Olympic bobsledders?

124

Autism: debunking Trump claims, and what scientists still don't know

125

Why research into ‘forever chemicals’ includes firefighters

126

Lessons and failures from the Challenger space shuttle explosion

127

How scientists predict big winter storms

128

What drives animals to your yard? It's complicated

129

Iran offline: How a government can turn off the internet

130

The plight of penguins in Antarctica

131

A failed galaxy could solve the dark matter mystery

132

Is ‘The Pitt’ accurate? Medical experts weigh in

133

Come critter spotting with us on a cold winter's night

134

10 breakthrough technologies to expect in 2026

135

When is your brain actually an "adult"?

136

The ozone layer is still healing…thanks to science

137

These little microbes may help solve our big problems

138

Hot galaxies alert!

139

Micro forests: an emerging climate hero?

140

Behold a T-Rex holotype, paleontology's "gold standard"

141

Did Earth’s Water Come From Space?

142

The trouble of zero

143

Science In 2025 Took A Hit. What Does It Mean?

144

Climate Anxiety Is Altering Family Planning

145

Why Kratom Is At The Heart Of A Big Public Health Debate

146

Why Drones Are Catching Whale Breaths

147

Drinking Turns Some Red With Asian Glow—And May Fight Tuberculosis

148

Why Suicide Prevention is 'Everyone's Business'

149

No, Raccoons Aren’t Pet-Ready (Yet)

150

GLP-1 Pills Are On The Way. Here's What To Know

151

The Indicator: Take A Penny, Leave A Penny, Get Rid Of The Penny

152

"A Very, Very Big Deal." Countries Take On Fossil Fuels

153

Could Architecture In Space Make A Greener Earth?

154

Is The Quantum Future Here?

155

Could This Exoplanet Harbor Life?

156

How Replaceable Are You?

157

The Closest Thing To A Cure For Allergies

158

Controversy In Yellowstone

159

Americans Are Not Going To The Dentist Enough

160

What Are AI Data Centers Doing To Your Electric Bill?

161

Why Experts Are Racing To Learn About This Interstellar Comet

162

Who Should Track Their Blood Sugar?

163

What’s In A Kiss? 21 Million Years Of Evolution

164

How To Disagree Better

165

Nature Quest: The Earthquake Prediction Problem

166

SNAP Delays: The Science Of Hunger And Food Insecurity

167

What's Up With Nightmares?

168

The Mystery Of Inner Monologues

169

An Apple Is An Ovary: The Science of Apple Breeding

170

Mental ‘Workouts’ Could Keep Your Brain Young

171

Are we cooked? How social media shapes your language w/ Adam Aleksic (from TED Tech)

172

Data Centers, Icy Moons And Chameleons

173

The Future Of Immune Health Might Be Here

174

What Space Dust Reveals About Earth's Ice Age

175

Do Birth Control Side Effects Make It Worth Skipping?

176

Fall foliage is still a mystery: Why do some leaves turn red?

177

Why Some Species Survive Mass Extinctions

178

The Secrets Everyday Rocks Keep

179

Elections: A Big Math Problem

180

This Week In Science: Spiders, TV Pixels And Storytelling

181

Like Being Scared? Here’s Why

182

Nature Quest: Rebuild Or Relocate Post-Disaster?

183

What Works – And Doesn’t – For Hair Loss?

184

Parasites Have Haunted Us For Millions Of Years

185

Migrating Birds Have a Big, Clear Problem

186

We Have the Cure. Why is Tuberculosis Still Around?

187

Should Scientists Genetically Engineer Wild Species?

188

Science Says Quitting Smoking At Any Age Is Good For The Brain

189

What Happens When You're Under Anesthesia?

190

Why Legal Weed Isn’t Always Safe

191

Synthetic Cells: The Next Bioengineering Frontier

192

Why The Tropics Have A Weather Forecasting Problem

193

Doing Science at the Edge of the Earth

194

Solved: The Potato Origin Mystery

195

The Science Of Fear And Horror Movies

196

What Are Flies Doing In The Middle Of The Ocean?

197

Why Animal Scavengers Protect Your Health

198

Nature Quest: How High Will Sea Levels Rise?

199

Why Do Some Hurricane Survivors Thrive After Disaster?

200

A Surprising Cause Of Endometriosis Could Lead To Cure

201

Tylenol and Autism: What’s True and What Isn’t

202

A Surprising Culprit of Food Allergies

203

Should You Try Red-Light Therapy?

204

Untangling The Science of Octopus Arms

205

What Does a Black Hole Collision Sound Like?

206

What Do Stem Cells Mean For The Future Of Parkinson's?

207

The Surprisingly Long History Of Nose Jobs

208

The Most Convincing Evidence Yet Of Life On Mars

209

Brain Implants Are Here — And Getting Better

210

'Interstellar': Time Dilation And Wormholes Explained

211

Sip or Skip? The Truth About Electrolytes

212

What Marsquakes Reveal About The Planet's Habitability

213

Have a Stutter? It Could Be Inherited

214

Stopping SSRIs Can Be Hard. Researchers Are Unsure Why

215

A (Monday Night) Football Mystery

216

Why U.S. Sunscreens Don't Measure Up

217

A Lock of Hair Could Rewrite Knowledge Of The Inca Empire

218

Nature Quest: What Does Climate Change Sound Like?

219

Sea Camp: To Mine Or Not To Mine

220

Could labs replace your natural chocolate?

221

The Yellowstone Wolf Controversy

222

Toxic? These Animals Don't Care

223

Sea Camp: Why Scientists Want To Map The Entire Seafloor

224

Alive Or Not Alive... Is A Tricky Question

225

The Trait That Makes Robots More 'Human'

226

Why Gene-Edited Babies May Be Closer Than Ever

227

Sea Camp: Did Life Start In Hydrothermal Vents?

228

Why Do Some 80 Year-Olds Have Extraordinary Memories?

229

Climate Change Could Alter Spidey Love

230

'Zombie' Cells Could Explain Aging — And Help Scientists Slow It

231

The Giants Lurking In The Deep Sea

232

Climate Change Is Here For Your Chocolate

233

Why Illusions Are A Brain Feature, Not A Bug

234

Nature Quest: Are Summers Getting Hotter?

235

Sea Camp: The Largest Daily Migration On Earth

236

Did Spiders' Ancestors Come From The Ocean?

237

Eating Disorder Recovery In A Diet Culture World

238

Will Federal Budget Cuts Affect Space Science?

239

Sea Camp: Is Better Human Health Hidden In The Sea?

240

Congress has voted to eliminate government funding for public media

241

These Scientists Are Using AI To Listen To Frogs

242

Who Is Using The 988 Crisis Line?

243

How Realistic Are Movie Dinosaurs?

244

These Critters Call The Great Pacific Garbage Patch Home

245

Meet the Third Ever (!!) Interstellar Comet

246

Evolution Went On Trial 100 Years Ago. Where Are We Now?

247

Itchy? Air Pollution May Be Making It Worse

248

Sea Camp: Why Are Ocean Currents Shifting?

249

Why Dew Point Is This Summer's 'It Girl'

250

Is The Milky Way On A Collision Course?

251

On July 4th, Are You A Thrill- Or Chill-Seeker?

252

RFK Jr.'s New Vaccine Advisors Signal Big Changes

253

Aha! The Power Of A Short Rest

254

When Eavesdropping Pays Off

255

Does It Feel Like Mosquitoes Are Getting Worse?

256

The Power Grid Problem

257

What Makes South Korea's 'Super Divers' Special?

258

Why Emotions Run High For Sports Fans

259

Trump Wants A Missile Defense System Like Israel's

260

Why Weed's Signature Scent Has Changed Over Time

261

Your Breathing Pattern Is Like A Fingerprint

262

Wanna Save Money? Climate-Proof Your Home

263

Living With OCD

264

Helping Dogs and Their Pawrents Live Healthier, Longer

265

Unveiling Olo — A Color Out of Oz!

266

Anglerfish Ancestors Once Roamed The Seafloor

267

Can AI Crack The Biology Code?

268

Solving A Centuries Old Maritime Mystery

269

Why Daylight Boosts Immunity

270

Unpacking Bipolar Disorder

271

Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question

272

The Great Space Race ... With Clocks

273

Flamingos: The Water-Bending Physics Masters

274

New Antivenom, Thanks To 200 Intentional Snake Bites

275

Will Trump Unleash Energy Dominance Or Damage?

276

Could Wormholes Exist?

277

Orange Cat Lovers, Rise Up!

278

How Baby Bats Learn To Eavesdrop On Dinner

279

Learning A Second Language As An Adult

280

The Indicator: American Science Brain Drain

281

Could AI Go Green?

282

What's The Environmental Cost Of AI?

283

Science Can Make You More Creative!

284

Did Scientists Find Alien Life Or Just Controversy?

285

What Can Minecraft Teach Us About Learning?

286

Are DOGE Cuts Making America Healthy?

287

Should Kids Be Taking Melatonin?

288

Harnessing Spineless Sea Creatures' Superpowers

289

This Telescope Could Find "Planet 9"

290

Why These Salmon Are On Anxiety Meds

291

Nature Quest: Are Flowers Blooming Early?

292

Should Humans Live On Mars?

293

Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate

294

How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

295

Your Allergies May Be Getting Worse

296

All Hail The Butt Flicker

297

How Do Astronomers Find Exoplanets? Wiggles!

298

Could Psychedelics Become Tripless?

299

What If You Took The "Trip" Out Of Ketamine?

300

Why The Trip Complicates Psychedelic Research

301

Could Running Change Your Brain?

302

Tornado Alley: Home Of Extreme Winds

303

The Iguanas That Rafted To Fiji

304

Is AI Ready For Robots?

305

Rare Narwhal Footage Shows New Tusk Activities

306

The Algae That Thrive in Arctic Darkness

307

Climate Change + Baseball = More Home Runs

308

What Scientists Got Wrong About COVID-19

309

What Experts Say About ADHD-Tok

310

What's In Your Personal Care Products?

311

What to Know About The Measles Outbreak

312

Could 'Severance' Become Our Reality?

313

Love Fruit? Thank (Dinosaur) Mass Extinction

314

Let's Talk About (Biological) Sex, Baby

315

Is The Trump Administration Breaking Science?

316

The Great Antarctic Food Web Puzzle

317

Stone Age To Bone Age?

318

Will Bark For Science

319

Reviving The Woolly Mammoth ... With Mice

320

What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs

321

When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables

322

This Radio Wave Mystery Changed Astronomy

323

Extracting Brains ... For Science

324

What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

325

This Is Your Brain On Dessert

326

Party In Peru: New Critters Just Dropped

327

When AI Cannibalizes Its Data

328

Could This Particle 'Clean Up' A Cosmic Mystery?

329

Lessons in Love From Voles

330

Stopping A Deadly Disease On Apache Lands

331

What Happens Inside A Top-Secret U.S. Nuclear Facility?

332

The Dangers Of Mirror Cell Research

333

How Physics Could Make Big Crowds Safer

334

Microbes: It's Complicated

335

Why Black Holes Are More Than They Seem

336

Not All Nature Comebacks Are Equal

337

10 Technologies To Watch

338

Farts To The Rescue

339

The Latest On Bird Flu

340

Moths, Owls And Fungi With Over 20,000 Sexes...Oh My!

341

Peeing Is Contagious!

342

Where Are We In The Quest To Find Alien Life?

343

How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?

344

The Science Behind The FDA Ban On Food Dye Red No. 3

345

All Of Life Has A Common Ancestor. What Was LUCA?

346

Some Dinos Had Feathers. Did They Fly?

347

Bone Marrow Cells: Key To Vaccine Longevity?

348

The Science Behind Wildfire Smoke

349

What Are California's Santa Ana Winds?

350

Fluoride: Fact vs. Fiction

351

How Two Veterans Developed The Same Rare Brain Condition

352

The Great Space (Clock) Race

353

Jimmy Carter's Triumph Over The Guinea Worm

354

The Dubious World's Largest Snowflake Record

355

The Trouble With Zero

356

The Biggest Health Stories of 2024

357

Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back

358

Why These Squirrels Are Eating Meat

359

Will GMOs Bring Back The American Chestnut Tree?

360

Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio

361

How Does An Airplane Stay In The Air?

362

The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant

363

This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake

364

Why Big Tech Wants Nuclear Power

365

How Racism – And Silence – Could Hurt Your Health

366

What's A Weather Forecast Worth?

367

Conan The Bacterium's Superpower: Resisting Radiation

368

In The Club, We All ... Archaea?

369

Grape Growers' Next Collaborators? Robots

370

Who Does Science? Under Trump, That Could Change

371

The Comeback Of The Southwest Peach

372

The Ambitious Quest To Genetically Map All Known Vertebrates

373

These Rats Can Drive. What's Happening In Their Brains?

374

Why Your Brain Loves Sales

375

This Hazelnut May Help The Land Back Movement In Canada

376

This COP29, It's All About The Numbers

377

How Do You Preserve An Endangered Language?

378

The Battle To Save Monarch Butterflies

379

Are Starship Launches Trashing Texas?

380

The Mystery of the Dead Coho Salmon

381

How To Have Hard Conversations

382

Don't Let Jet Lag Ruin Your Holiday Plans

383

The Mystery Mollusk Roaming The Midnight Zone

384

Should Humans Live On Mars?

385

These Drones Could Help Keep Your Lights On

386

Eating Breakfast? You Can Thank Fermentation

387

Picking Up Cosmic Vibrations

388

A Better Life For Trafficked Turtles

389

Elections Are One Big Math Problem

390

Did Life Start In Hydrothermal Vents?

391

The Best (And Oldest) Tadpole Ever Discovered

392

The Sound Of Fear: Why Do Animals Scream?

393

Embracing Death: Why We Age

394

Honey, They Cloned The Apples!

395

Saving The Hawaiian Tree Snails

396

A Brand New Kind of Schizophrenia Treatment

397

'Ghost Genes' Could Help Save The American Red Wolf

398

Game Night With 'Shrooms

399

New Frogs Just Dropped

400

Europa Clipper And The Search For Life In Space

401

5-Year-Olds Asked Us Science Questions. We Answer

402

Why Traditional Plant Knowledge Is Not A Quick Fix

403

What The Heck Is A Rock Glacier?

404

Anxious? Try Watching A Scary Movie

405

How Do You Spot A Liar?

406

Mapping The Entire Fruit Fly Brain

407

What Lightning And Black Holes Have In Common

408

Why Astronomers Are Teaching Climate Change

409

If Fungi Win, Will We Be Ready?

410

Do NYC Birds Hold The Clues To The Next Pandemic?

411

Hurricane Helene Is Here And Powerful

412

The Reality Of OCD

413

Harnessing The Ghost Particles Blasting Through You

414

Solving The EV Battery Recycling Puzzle

415

How To Get A Haircut In Space

416

The Scuba Diving Lizards Breathing By Bubble

417

Are Crabs The Final Form?

418

The physics of wheelchair basketball, from a Paralympian

419

What's Up With The Hot Ocean Temperatures?

420

Solutions Week: Reducing The Food Waste Problem

421

Solutions Week: Reinventing Chocolate

422

Solutions Week: The Cost Of Food Delivery

423

Solutions Week: Climate Change Is Coming For Your Wine

424

Body Electric: How AI Is Changing Our Relationships

425

Dogs Go Viral For 'Talking' To Humans — But Can They?

426

Feeling Itchy? Air Pollution Might Be Making It Worse

427

Are You Overestimating The Algorithm?

428

Batteries: The Lemonade Of Life

429

Detecting Pests By Eavesdropping On Insects

430

What's Missing From The Invasive Species Narrative?

431

Preserving Your Humanity In The Age Of Robots

432

This Unremarkable Ant From Europe Quietly Conquered NYC

433

Feeling Bored? Stop Swiping

434

What COVID Going Endemic Means For You

435

Solve A Moon Mystery! With Radiolab

436

The Power Of Braille Literacy

437

Firing A Weapon Might Hurt Your Brain

438

How To Beat The Heat, Olympian-Style

439

How Will the Universe End?

440

To Save The Grizzly Bear, You Gotta Think Like One

441

What Is An Unfair Advantage In Sports?

442

These Sea Lions Are Basically Scientists

443

Was The Paris Olympic Pool Slow?

444

We're All Swimming In Big Bang Juice

445

The Toll Of Social Media On Mental Health

446

What Makes Simone Biles The GOAT, Scientifically

447

The Mathematical Marvel Of The Rubik's Cube

448

The Curious Case Of The Supermassive Black Hole

449

We Hate To Tell You This, But Some Leeches Can Jump

450

What Chimpanzee Gestures Reveal About Human Communication

451

Dancing Yeti Crabs, Morphing Cuttlefish, Other Stories From The Deep Sea

452

Outer Space Changes You, Literally. Here's What It Does To The Human Body

453

The Brain Makes A Lot Of Waste. Here's How It Cleans Itself Up

454

How An Ambitious River Rerouting Plan Could Change India's Weather

455

The Magic — And Science — Of Synchronous Firefly Displays

456

This Mysterious Energy Is Everywhere. Scientists Still Don't Know What It Is

457

The Dubious Consent Question At The Heart Of The Human Genome Project

458

Teens Are Following Skincare Trends On TikTok. Some Dermatologists Are Wary

459

Like Humans, These Ants Can Perform Leg Amputations To Save Lives

460

The Invisible Substance That Structures Our Universe

461

Sharks Often Get A Bad Rap, But Oceans Need Them

462

From Cars To Leaf Blowers: Noise Pollution's Toll On Human Health

463

Researchers Are Figuring Out How African Ancestry Can Affect Certain Brain Disorders

464

Could '3 Body Problem's Aliens Exist? The Science Behind Netflix's New Hit

465

Want Juicy Barbecue This Fourth Of July? Cook Low And Slow

466

Move Over Norse Mythology, There's A New Loki In Town — A Dinosaur

467

The Human Brain Is Hardwired To Recognize Faces. But What If You Can't?

468

Some Stars Explode As They Die. We Look At Their Life Cycle

469

Earth Is More Than A Planet With Life On It. It's A "Living Planet"

470

We're In For A Brutal Hurricane Season, According To Predictions

471

What 'Inside Out 2' Got Right About Anxiety, Per A Psychologist

472

Pluto Isn't A Planet — But It Gives Us Clues For How The Solar System Formed

473

How Millions Of Mosquitoes Could Save Hawaii's Endangered Birds

474

Inheriting: Leah & Japanese American Incarceration

475

Why You Shouldn't Worry About Invasive Joro Spiders

476

How The Current Heat Dome Can Affect Human Health

477

From The Physics Of G-Force To Weightlessness: How It Feels To Launch Into Space

478

Illegal Wildlife Trade Is Booming. What Does That Mean For The Confiscated Animals?

479

'Math In Drag' Explores The Creativity And Beauty In Numbers

480

Why The Science Of Tides Was Crucial For D-Day

481

Psychedelic Treatment For PTSD Faces Misconduct Hurdle

482

A Silky Shark Named Genie Swam 17,000 Miles, a Record-Breaking Migration

483

A Vaginal Microbiome Transplant Could Help People With BV

484

With Summer Approaching, Here's A Smarter Way To Use Sunscreen

485

How Israel Is Using Facial Recognition In Gaza

486

Who's At Risk For Uterine Fibroids? Most Women

487

What Are Sperm Whales Saying? Researchers Find A Complex 'Alphabet'

488

Scientists Reveal Mysterious Origin of Baobab Trees, Rafiki's Home in 'The Lion King'

489

Climate Change Is Coming For Your Chocolate

490

How AI Is Cracking The Biology Code

491

NEWS: NOAA Issues First Severe Geomagnetic Storm Watch Since 2005

492

How Autism Can Look Very Different, Even in Identical Twins

493

The Wonderous World Of Nudibranchs

494

'Stealing The Past': A Spat Between Twins Leads To A Theory Of Disputed Memories

495

Deer Are Expanding North. That Could Hurt Some Species Like Boreal Caribou

496

The Mysterious "Great Attractor" Pulling Our Galaxy Off Course

497

How The New Catan Board Game Can Spark Conversations On Climate Change

498

10 Years After Flint, The Fight To Replace Lead Pipes Continues

499

Beavers Can Help With Climate Change. So How Do We Get Along?

500

Sustainable Seafood Is All Around You — If You Know Where To Look

501

An 11-Year-old Unearthed Fossils Of The Largest Known Marine Reptile

502

The Nightmarish Worm That Lived 25 Million Years Longer Than Researchers Thought

503

How The Brain Experiences Pleasure — Even The Kind That Makes Us Feel Guilty

504

What To Know About The New EPA Rule Limiting 'Forever Chemicals' In Tap Water

505

The Order Your Siblings Were Born In May Play A Role In Identity And Sexuality

506

How Climate Change And Physics Affect Baseball

507

The "Barcodes" Powering These Tiny Songbirds' Memories May Also Help Human Memory

508

How To Make The Most Of Next Week's Solar Eclipse

509

The Two Sides Of Guyana: A Green Champion And An Oil Producer

510

The Shy Rodents Lost To Science

511

Shots Are Scary. But They Don't Have To Be.

512

What's It Like To Live In Space? One Astronaut Says It Changes Her Dreams

513

The Evolutionary Mystery Of Menopause ... In Whales

514

Syphilis Cases Are Rising In Babies. Illinois Has A Potential Solution

515

A Tale Of Two Bengali Physicists

516

Are We On The Brink Of A Nuclear Fusion Breakthrough?

517

What We Know About Long COVID, From Brain Fog to Fatigue

518

The Science Of Atomic Bombs At The Heart Of 'Oppenheimer'

519

The "Shocking" Tactic Electric Fish Use to Collectively Sense the World

520

The Recent Glitch Threatening Voyager 1

521

The Evolution Of Cancer Treatment

522

Could Dune Really Exist? What Scientists Think of Our Favorite Sci-Fi Worlds

523

Is It Possible To Feed The World Sustainably?

524

In Light of The Alabama Court Ruling, A Look At The Science Of IVF

525

Didn't Get A Valentine's Love Song? These Skywalker Gibbons Sing Love Duets

526

When The Sun Erupts

527

The Life And Death Of A Woolly Mammoth

528

The U.N.'s First-Ever Analysis Of World's Migratory Species Just Dropped

529

Celebrate Valentine's Day With These Queer Animals

530

The Shared History Of The Chinese And Gregorian Calendars

531

Clownfish Might Be Counting Their Potential Enemies' Stripes

532

After 20 Years, This Scientist Uncovered The Physics Behind The Spiral Pass

533

Wolves Are Thriving In The Radioactive Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

534

This Scientist Figured Out Why Your Appendix Isn't Useless

535

Murder, Mayhem At The Zoo: A Naked Mole Rat Succession War

536

Choose Your Lightning Protection: Lasers, Rockets or Rods?

537

Lessons on the limits of ecosystem restoration from the Everglades

538

When Tiny, Invasive Ants Go Marching In...And Alter An Ecosystem

539

Experiencing Racism May Physically Change Your Brain

540

This Wild Bird Will Lead You To Honey On Command

541

After Domestic Abuse Ends, the Effects of Brain Injuries Can Persist

542

What You Need To Know About The Current Tripledemic

543

Our Lives Are Ruled By The Illusion Of Time

544

Body Electric: The Body Across The Ages

545

Odd Radio Circles Are glowing Around Some Galaxies. Now We Know Why

546

Preserving Our Humanity In The Age Of Robots

547

The Record For World's Largest Snowflake Might Not Count

548

Snow Flies Pay An Arm And A Leg For Love

549

Why Big Numbers Break Our Brains

550

Asian Glow Might Have A Major Upside

551

This Year's Top Science Stories, Wrapped

552

A year in music science: wonder, volume and animals that groove

553

Life Could Be Different ... And Maybe Better?

554

This Holiday, Dig Into Some Of The Hilarious Science Of Christmas BMJs Past

555

LED Lights Make You Sick? We Found Out What Causes It

556

Once A Satirical Conspiracy, Bird Drones Could Soon Be A Reality

557

Climate Talks Call For A Transition Away From Fossil Fuels. Is That Enough?

558

Want To Be Greener This Holiday Season? Try Composting!

559

More Plant And Fungi Emojis, Please!

560

When AI Goes Wrong

561

Why it's so hard to resist holiday sales (and how to try)

562

How Glaciers Move — And Affect Sea Level Rise

563

Feeling Lonely? Your Brain May Process The World Differently

564

A Star Is Born ... And Then What? Journey Through The Life Cycle of a star

565

Don't Call It Dirt: The Surprising Science Of Soil

566

These Penguins Take 10,000 Little Naps A Day — Seconds At A Time

567

The International Race To Create Human Eggs And Sperm In The Lab

568

Monday Night Football And Pursuing Two Careers With John Urschel

569

What Fossilized Poop Can Teach Us About Dinosaurs

570

The Thanksgiving Quest For The (Scientifically) Best Turkey

571

3 Major Ways Climate Change Affects Life In The U.S.

572

Cutting A Teaspoon Of Salt Is Comparable To Taking Blood Pressure Medication

573

Thousands of earthquakes in Iceland may spell a volcanic eruption

574

How Venus got caught up in an 18th century space race

575

Trailblazing Computer Scientist Fei-Fei Li on Human-Centered AI

576

To Figure Out The Future Climate, Scientists Are Researching How Trees Form Clouds

577

Mapping The Seafloor Is Daunting But Key To Improving Human Life

578

Pulling An All-Nighter Is A Temporary Antidepressant

579

Sky Vaccines: Ridding Raccoons Of Rabies En Masse

580

Thanks, Neanderthals: How our ancient relatives could help find new antibiotics

581

Scientist Just Made The Largest Brain Map Ever

582

How Climate Change Is Testing The Endangered Species Act

583

Why Gray Hair Is Coming For You

584

Light Show! The Science Behind The Orionid Meteor Shower

585

Why Scientists Are Reanimating Spider Corpses For Research

586

How AI Is Speeding Up Scientific Discoveries

587

The Microbiologist Studying The Giant Floating Petri Dish In Space

588

Florida Corals Are Dying. Can A 'Coral Gym' Help Them Survive?

589

Choose Your Own Adventure — But Make It Math

590

Body Electric: The Body Through The Ages

591

It's Fat Bear Week!

592

Why Chilean Mummies Are Decomposing After 7,000 Years

593

Seaweed is piling up on beaches. This robot might be its match

594

The Tiny Worm At The Heart Of Regeneration Science

595

Osiris-REx and the quest to understand the solar system's origin

596

Itchy? Here's why

597

Can't Match The Beat? Then You Can't Woo A Cockatoo

598

Why Sustainable Seafood Is A Data Problem

599

The James Webb Space Telescope Is Fueling Galactic Controversy

600

The Latest COVID Booster Is Here. Should You Get It?

601

Animal Crossing: The Destructive Nature of Roads

602

Why A Proposed Marine Sanctuary Could Make History

603

Air Pollution May Be Increasing Superbugs

604

Recurring UTIs: The Infection We Keep Secretly Getting

605

The Deadly Toll Heat Can Take On Humans

606

Food Allergies Are On The Rise. Are You Affected?

607

'Speedboat Epidemiology': Eradicating Disease One Person At A Time

608

What Do We Do With Radioactive Wastewater?

609

A Tale Of Two Lunar Landing Attempts

610

What Made Hilary Such A Weird Storm

611

Fixing Our Failing Electric Grid... On A Budget

612

The Key To Uncovering An Ancient Maya City? Lasers

613

Is Math Real?

614

Sperm Can't Really Swim And Other Surprising Pregnancy Facts

615

The Fish That Conceal Themselves To Hunt

616

The Science Of Happiness Sounds Great. But Is The Research Solid?

617

Black Metallurgists, Iron And The Industrial Revolution

618

This Sausage-Shaped Part Of Your Brain Causes Out-Of-Body Experiences

619

The Secrecy Of The Horseshoe Crab Blood Harvest

620

Christmas in July! Celebrate With Hilarious Research

621

The Jackson Water Crisis Through A Student Journalist's Eyes

622

Peanuts, Pets And Poopy Shores

623

Why Babies Babble And What It Can Teach Adults About Language

624

The Scorpion Renaissance Has Arrived

625

'Oppenheimer' And The Science Of Atomic Bombs

626

This Cellular Atlas Could Lead To Breakthroughs For Endometriosis Patients

627

Meet The Residents Of The Great Pacific Garbage Patch

628

Sea squirts and 'skeeters in our science news roundup

629

This Is Canada's Worst Fire Season In Modern History. It's Not New

630

The Only Nuclear-Powered Passenger Ship EVER

631

What Geologists Love — And Lament — About Cult Classic 'The Core'

632

Tick Check! Meet Your Backyard Bloodsuckers

633

The Chemistry Behind A Perfect Barbeque

634

Why This Gravitational Waves News Is A Big Deal

635

An unexpected forest in the ocean

636

A Smarter Way To Use Sunscreen

637

Rethinking The Lab Rat

638

This Satellite Could Help Clean Up The Air

639

New Star Trek Season, Same Ol' Sci-Fi

640

A Newly-Discovered Asteroid And What's Beneath The Ice On Enceladus

641

Give Rivers Space: The Simple Flood Risk Fix

642

Life Lessons From Supernovae

643

How To Stay Safe Amid Wildfire Smoke

644

Behold! The Dulcet Tones Of Cosmic Rays

645

The Rise Of The Dinosaurs

646

Helping A Man Walk Again With Science

647

Why Melting Ice In Antarctica Is Making Hurricanes Worse In Texas

648

What Happens When An Infant Loses Half Their Brain?

649

Galaxies Are Older Than We Thought — That's A Big Deal

650

When Your Body Rejects The Kidney It Needs

651

Two Squirrely Responses To Climate Change

652

The Physics Behind The Perfect Gummy Candy

653

Why You Can't Tell Your Race From A DNA Test

654

Long COVID Scientists Try To Unravel Blood Clot Mystery

655

Move over, humans—lemurs have rhythm, too

656

We Need To Talk About Teens, Social Media And Mental Health

657

What Could We Do With A Third Thumb?

658

Some people get sick from VR. Why?

659

Will Artificial Intelligence Help — Or Hurt — Medicine?

660

Shoring Up The Future With Greener Batteries

661

SUPERBLOOM: An Upside To The California Downpours

662

Worm Blobs In The Bowels Of The Earth

663

The News Roundup Goes Intergalactic

664

Fire And Ice: Linking Intense Wildfire And The Melting Arctic

665

The Race To Protect Millions Of People From Melting Glaciers

666

Where are the whales? Scientists find clues thousands of miles away

667

Are Rats Running This Podcast?

668

Peep The Delightful Science Of Chickens

669

Launching Into Space — Sustainably!

670

News Round Up: Mammoth Meatballs, Stressed Plants And Apologetic Robots

671

Allergies Are Weird. So Are Cats

672

Why We Should Care About Viruses Jumping From Animals To People

673

Eunice Foote: The Hidden Grandmother Of Climate Science

674

Why Scientists Just Mapped Every Synapse In A Fly Brain

675

Perennial Rice: Plant Once, Harvest Again And Again

676

News Round Up: Algal Threats, An Asteroid With Life's Building Blocks And Bee Maps

677

Why Pandemic Researchers Are Talking About Raccoon Dogs

678

If ChatGPT Designed A Rocket — Would It Get To Space?

679

What we lose if the Great Salt Lake dries up

680

Venus And Earth: A Tale Of Two 'Twins'

681

Tweeting Directly From Your Brain (And What's Next)

682

Flying Into Snowstorms ... For Science!

683

It's Boom Times In Ancient DNA

684

How To Bake Pi, Mathematically (And Deliciously)

685

How Well Does A New Alzheimer's Drug Work For Those Most At Risk?

686

Ocean World Tour: Whale Vocal Fry, Fossilizing Plankton and A Treaty

687

'Are You A Model?': Crickets Are So Hot Right Now

688

The Race To Save A Tree Species

689

The $20 Billion Deal To Get Indonesia Off Coal

690

Rome wasn't built in a day, but they sure had strong concrete

691

Chanda Prescod-Weinstein's Disordered Cosmos

692

Honoring The 'Hidden Figures' Of Black Gardening

693

This Navy vet helped discover a new, super-heavy element

694

What DNA kits leave out: race, ancestry and 'scientific sankofa'

695

Measuring Health Risks After A Chemical Spill

696

Ancient Seeds: A Possible Key To Climate Adaptation

697

Seriously...what IS life?

698

Understanding Earthquake Aftershocks

699

The Fungal Science Behind HBO's 'The Last of Us'

700

Life Kit: Help Save The North American Bird Population

701

News Round Up: Chocolate, A Solar Valentine And Fly Pheromones

702

The Science Fueling Disney's 'Strange World'

703

Congrats! It's A Tomato

704

Mix Up LOVE, And You Get V-O-L-E

705

Meet One Engineer Fixing A Racially Biased Medical Device

706

Lightning Protection: Lasers, Rockets or Rods?

707

The Social Cost of Carbon Is An Ethics Nightmare

708

Why Can't We Predict Earthquakes?

709

Who Gets The First Peek At The Secrets Of The Universe?

710

Can You See What I See?

711

A Dirty Snowball, Cancer-Sniffing Ants And A Stressed Out Moon

712

A Fatal Virus With Pandemic Potential

713

The Ancient Night Sky And The Earliest Astronomers

714

Can you teach a computer common sense?

715

Gas Stoves: Sorting Fact From Fiction

716

Meet The Bony-Eared Assfish And Its Deep Sea Friends

717

6 Doctors Swallow Lego Heads ... What Comes Out?

718

The Math And Science Powering 'Everything Everywhere All At Once'

719

Our Perception Of Time Shapes The Way We Think About Climate Change

720

Fossil CSI: Cracking The Case Of An Ancient Reptile Graveyard

721

New Tech Targets Epilepsy With Lasers, Robots

722

What Cities Should Learn From California's Flooding

723

Time Is So Much Weirder Than It Seems

724

A Course Correction In Managing Drying Rivers

725

How You Can Support Scientific Research

726

Things Could Be Better

727

Behold! The Mysterious Ice Worm

728

How Glaciers Move

729

Zircon: The Keeper Of Earth's Time

730

Redlining's Ripple Effects Go Beyond Humans

731

An Atmospheric River Runs Through It

732

The Period Talk (For Adults)

733

Houston, We Have Short Wave On The Line

734

Time Cells Don't Really Care About Time

735

A New Year's Mad Lib!

736

I'm Crying Cuz... I'm Human

737

The Woman Behind A Mystery That Changed Astronomy

738

Pumpkin Toadlet: Neither Pumpkin, Nor Toad

739

TikTok's favorite zoologist quizzes us on the most dangerous animals

740

A Holiday Fact Exchange!

741

Climate Change Stresses Out These Chipmunks. Why Are Their Cousins So Chill?

742

Can COP 15 Save Our Planet's Biodiversity?

743

Brain Scientists Are Tripping Out Over Psychedelics

744

Confessions Of A Math Convert

745

Your Multivitamin Won't Save You

746

The Hope For Slowing Amazon Deforestation

747

A Step Closer To Nuclear Fusion Energy

748

From Scientific Exile To Gene Editing Pioneer

749

You Know That Gut Feeling You Have?...

750

The Myth of Plastic Recycling

751

DART: The Impacts Of Slamming A Spacecraft Into An Asteroid

752

The Biologist Who Talks With Cells

753

What Makes Hawaii's Erupting Volcanoes Special

754

'One Mississippi...' How Lightning Shapes The Climate

755

Don't Call It Dirt: The Science Of Soil

756

Arts Week: Physics Meets The Circus

757

Arts Week: The Life Cycle Of A Neuron

758

Arts Week: The Literary Magazine Dissecting Health And Healing

759

Arts Week: How Art Can Heal The Brain

760

Arts Week: Harnessing Bacteria For Art

761

Happy Thanksgiving, All!

762

Three Takeaways From The COP27 Climate Conference

763

A Taste Of Lab-Grown Meat

764

A Deeply Personal Race Against A Fatal Brain Disease

765

Science Couldn't Save Her, So She Became A Scientist

766

Killer Proteins: The Science Of Prions

767

Where Do Climate Negotiations Stand At COP27?

768

Searching For A New Life

769

Corey Gray Is Picking Up Cosmic Vibrations

770

Climate Tipping Points And The Damage That Could Follow

771

Depression And Alzheimer's Treatments At A Crossroads

772

Why Do We Cry?

773

Traditional Plant Knowledge Is Not A Quick Fix

774

COP-out: Who's Liable For Climate Change Destruction?

775

Control: Eugenics And The Corruption Of Science

776

Should Daylight Saving Time Be Permanent?

777

Allergic To Cats? There's Hope Yet!

778

Saving The Pacific Lamprey

779

Donate Your Body To Science?

780

100 Years Of Box Turtles

781

He Had His Father's Voice: Tracking A Rare Bird Hybrid

782

The Tigray Medical System Collapse

783

When Autumn Leaves Start To Fall

784

New Discoveries In Underwater Plant Sex

785

Brain Cells In A Dish Play Pong And Other Brain Adventures

786

These Animals Will Mess You Up

787

Beyond Condoms!

788

Choose Your Own (Math) Adventure

789

You're 50, And Your Body Is Changing: Time For The Talk

790

Pop Quiz! Short Wave Birthday Edition

791

Why Do We Laugh?

792

We Baked A Cake For Our 3rd Birthday!

793

The Quest To Save The California Condor

794

IVF Has Come A Long Way, But Many Don't Have Access

795

The Scorpion Renaissance Is Upon Us

796

A New Drug For A Relentless Brain Disease

797

Why Disaster Relief Underserves Those Who Need It Most

798

Predicting Landslides: After Disaster, Alaska Town Turns To Science

799

Sustainable Seafood? It's A Question Of Data

800

Why The Bladder Is Number One!

801

Grasslands: The Unsung Carbon Hero

802

One Park. 24 Hours.

803

Asteroid Deflection Mission, Activate!

804

Rise Of The Dinosaurs

805

Working With Tribes To Co-Steward National Parks

806

Water Water Everywhere, But How Much Do You Really Need?

807

Three Sisters And The Fight Against Alzheimer's Disease

808

How Muggy Is It? Check The Dew Point!

809

How Freaked Out Should We Be About Ukraine's Nuclear Plant?

810

Heat Can Take A Deadly Toll On Humans

811

What The Universe Is Doing RIGHT NOW

812

When Should I Get My Omicron Booster Shot?

813

Name That Tune! Why The Brain Remembers Songs

814

The Race To Rescue The Guadalupe Fescue

815

Short Wave Goes To The Circus

816

'Scallop Discos': How Some Glitzy Lights Could Lead To A Low-Impact Fishery

817

Surf's Always Up — In Waco, Texas

818

Happy Labor Day!

819

Worm Blobs From The Bowels Of The Earth

820

The Stars That Settled The Great Debate

821

Quiz Bowl! How Animals Sense The World

822

The Man Who Shot The Moon

823

988: An Alternative To 911 For Mental Health

824

Experience The Quietest Place On Earth

825

Artemis: NASA's New Chapter In Space

826

Searching The Ocean's Depths For Future Medicines

827

Sweating Buckets... of SCIENCE!

828

Micro Wave: How to Build a Sandcastle Dreamhouse!

829

Eavesdropping On A Volcano

830

A Rising Demand for Coal Amidst War in Ukraine

831

Ode To The Manta Ray

832

How To Brew Amazing Coffee With Science

833

The Radio Wave Mystery That Changed Astronomy

834

Tick Check! The Tiny Bloodsuckers In Our Backyards

835

The Brazilian Scientists Inventing An mRNA Vaccine — And Sharing The Recipe

836

Twinkle, Twinkle, Shooting Star

837

How Monkeypox Became A Public Health Emergency

838

Carry The Two: Making Audio Magic With Math

839

A Tale Of Two Parks And The Bats Within Them

840

Abortion Laws in Texas are Disrupting Maternal Care

841

The Secret History of DNA

842

Wild Horses Could Keep Wildfire At Bay

843

TASTE BUDDIES: The Controversial World Of Taste Science

844

Spice, Spice, Baby! Why Some Of Us Enjoy The Pain Of Spicy Foods

845

TASTE BUDDIES: No Sugarcoating How Sweet Affects The Brain

846

TASTE BUDDIES: Feeling Salty?

847

TASTE BUDDIES: Umami And The Redemption Of MSG

848

TASTE BUDDIES: Pucker Up! It's The Science Of Sour

849

The Accelerated Approvals Process: Are Drugmakers Fulfilling Their Promises?

850

Russia's War In Ukraine Is Hurting Nature

851

Keeping Score On Climate: How We Measure Greenhouse Gases

852

Venus And The 18th Century Space Race

853

How Clarice Phelps Put Her Mark On The Periodic Table

854

The Universe's Baby Pictures (Squee!) From The James Webb Space Telescope

855

Making Space Travel Accessible For People With Disabilities

856

Real Life 'Goonies'? A Mysterious Shipwreck Found Off the Oregon Coast

857

BA.5: The Omicron Subvariant Driving Up Cases — And Reinfections

858

Everything On A Bagel: A Conversation With Daniels

859

Tiny Critter Week Finale: Nudibranchs Do It Better

860

Liquid Gold: The Wonder Of Honey

861

Spiders Can Fear Other Spiders

862

Against All Odds, The Pumpkin Toadlet Is

863

Tiny Critters On The Way This Week

864

If Monkeys Could Talk...

865

Micro Wave: Scientists Discover GINORMOUS Bacteria

866

Climate Change Is Tough On Personal Finances

867

The Quest To Save The California Condor

868

The Public Health Implications Of Overturning Roe V. Wade

869

Let's Get Crafty With Agar Art!

870

Dino-mite! Meet The Real Stars of 'Jurassic World: Dominion'

871

'Smell Ya Later, COVID!' How Dogs Are Helping Schools Stay COVID-free

872

Good Things Come In Trees

873

Honoring Juneteenth

874

Science In The City: Cylita Guy Talks Chasing Bats And Tracking Rats

875

Can The Next School Shooting Be Prevented With Compassion?

876

War On Earth, Cooperation In Space

877

How Politics And Health Are Intertwined

878

Wok This Way: A Science Cooking Show

879

Pride Week: The Importance Of Inclusion In Sex Education

880

Pride Week: How Organic Chemistry Helped With Embracing Identities

881

Pride Week: Beginning Hormone Replacement Therapy

882

Pride Week: TikTok Queen Brings Math To The Masses

883

Pride Week: Loving Sally Ride

884

It's Been A Minute: Digital Privacy In A Possible Post-Roe World

885

How To Keep Meat Juicy With Science

886

What Research Says About Mass Shootings

887

Telehealth Abortions Are Changing The Culture Of Medicine

888

James Kagambi: The 62 Year Old Who Just Summited Everest

889

Dog Breeds Are A Behavioral Myth... Sorry!

890

How Changes in Abortion Law Could Impact Community Health

891

Why Abortion Access Is Important For A Healthy Community

892

The Queen of Nuclear Physics (Part Two): Forming Chien-Shiung Wu's Story

893

The Queen of Nuclear Physics (Part One): Chien-Shiung Wu's Discovery

894

TASTE BUDDIES: Why Bitter Tastes Better For Some

895

Who Else Can See Your Period Tracker Data?

896

How Vaccine Misinformation Spread Through The Parenting World

897

The Importance Of The Vaginal Microbiome

898

Who Would Be Most Affected By Roe Reversal

899

A Climate Time Capsule, Part 2: The Start of the International Climate Change Fight

900

A Climate Time Capsule (Part 1): The Start of the International Climate Change Fight

901

Stephanie's Story: How COVID Misinformation Affected One Family

902

The Turnaway Study: What The Research Says About Abortion

903

Lessons From HIV On Ending The COVID Pandemic

904

When Our Star Erupts - The 1859 Solar Storm And More

905

Emotions — They're Not Just For Humans

906

Why You Should Give A Dam About Beavers!

907

Why Did The Scientist Cross The Road?...To Meet Kasha Patel!

908

All Tied Up: The Study of Knots

909

Planetary Scientists Are Excited About Uranus

910

U.S. COVID Case Increases Unlikely To Become A Surge

911

The Environmental Cost of Crypto

912

Cryptocurrency Is An Energy Drain

913

Fresh Banana Leaves — An Indigenous Approach To Science

914

The Indicator: How Green Laws Stop Green Projects

915

The Science Behind The Delta-8 Craze

916

TASTE BUDDIES: Y U Salty?

917

The Pandemic Is Damaging Health Workers' Mental Health

918

Can Skiing Survive Climate Change?

919

Addressing Water Contamination With Indigenous Science

920

Voices From A Ukrainian Hospital Damaged By Russian Attacks

921

Planet Money: How Manatees Got Into Hot Water

922

Lemurs Will Rock You

923

War In Ukraine Sets Back Tuberculosis Treatment

924

TASTE BUDDIES: The Origins Of Umami

925

The Indicator: Destroying Personal Digital Data

926

When To Consider Another COVID-19 Booster

927

What We Gain From Dark Night Skies

928

What Octopus Minds May Tell Us About Aliens

929

The Peculiar Physics Of The Wiffle Ball

930

The Community Scientists Who Helped Discover A New Planet

931

To Be DST, Or Not To Be. That Is The Question.

932

Indoor Air Quality is Cool for Schools

933

Hal Walker: The Man Who Shot The Moon

934

Can Nuclear Power Save A Struggling Coal Town?

935

Should Bulldogs Exist?

936

COVID-19 Cases Rise In The U.K., U.S. Watches For New Wave

937

Parents Of Transgender Youth Fear Texas' Anti-Trans Orders

938

How Art Can Heal The Brain

939

Fighting Misinformation With Science Journalism

940

What Mount Kilimanjaro Has To Do With The Search For Alien Life

941

Humble Pi: Enjoying When Math Goes Awry

942

Genetic Fact Vs. Fiction And Everything In Between With Janina Jeff

943

A Physics Legend Part Two: Chien-Shiung Wu's Granddaughter Reflects

944

A Physics Legend Part One: How Chien-Shiung Wu Changed Physics Forever

945

TASTE BUDDIES: Science of Sour

946

Checking In On Our Pandemic Habits: What To Lose And What To Keep?

947

Dr. Thomas Insel On Why The U.S Mental Health System Has Failed And What Can Be Done

948

Emily Runs A Marathon

949

Silver Linings From The UN's Dire Climate Change Report

950

How A Collection Of Threatened Bird Calls Swept The Australian Album Charts

951

Orcas: Apex Predators Or Marine Park Stars?

952

What Led To The Massive Volcanic Eruption In Tonga

953

Twinkle, Twinkle, Shooting Star . . .

954

Schedule Those Doctor's Appointments!

955

Do You See What I See?

956

Vacuuming DNA Out Of The Air

957

The Good and the Bad of TV Forensics

958

How Women Of Color Created Community In The Shark Sciences

959

How Many Senses Do We Really Have?

960

Tracing A Fraught And Amazing History Of American Horticulture

961

How to Talk About Hair Like a Scientist

962

How climate change is forcing cities to rebuild stormwater systems

963

The (Drag) Queen Of Mathematics

964

Without Inventor James West, This Interview Might Not Have Been Possible

965

The Complete Guide To Absolutely Everything (Abridged)

966

The Physics Of Figure Skating

967

Chimp Haven Welcomes New Retirees

968

Science In The City: Cylita Guy Talks Chasing Bats And Tracking Rats

969

Should Big Oil Pick Up The Climate Change Bill?

970

Omicron Ebbing Gives Time to Boost Vaccinations

971

'Station Eleven': A Home At The End Of The World

972

Omicron Around The World: From "Zero COVID" To Rising Cases

973

Did E.T. Phone Us?

974

Megadrought fuels debate over whether a flooded canyon should reemerge

975

What's Next For The Pandemic? Will COVID-19 Become Endemic Soon?

976

Placebos Vs Parkinson's: The Power Of Joy

977

Fighting Bias In Space: When There's A New Telescope, Who Gets To Use It?

978

The Hodgepodge Of COVID Testing In The U.S.

979

A Clean Energy Future: How Hawaii Is Sparking The Push

980

When Tracking Your Period Lets Companies Track You

981

The Debate About Pablo Escobar's Hippos

982

How COVID Is Affecting Kids' Mental Health

983

Wingspan! It's Got Birds, Science, Caterpillars - An Ideal Night In

984

Pondering A New Normal As The Omicron Surge Continues

985

The Electric Car Race! Vroom, Vroom!

986

Man's Best Friend Is Healing Veterans

987

How To Talk About The COVID-19 Vaccine With People Who Are Hesitant

988

Doctor Finds Hope In Helping Inform And Vaccinate Her Community

989

An Ode To The Manta Ray

990

The Science Of The Delta-8 Craze

991

This New Year - Slow Down, It Doesn't Mean You're Lazy

992

2021: Celebrating The Joy Of Birds

993

Meet the Dermatologists Changing Their Field

994

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