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Nature Quest: The Climate-Kid Question

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The Great Space Race ... With Clocks

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Flamingos: The Water-Bending Physics Masters

304

New Antivenom, Thanks To 200 Intentional Snake Bites

305

Will Trump Unleash Energy Dominance Or Damage?

306

Could Wormholes Exist?

307

Orange Cat Lovers, Rise Up!

308

How Baby Bats Learn To Eavesdrop On Dinner

309

Learning A Second Language As An Adult

310

The Indicator: American Science Brain Drain

311

Could AI Go Green?

312

What's The Environmental Cost Of AI?

313

Science Can Make You More Creative!

314

Did Scientists Find Alien Life Or Just Controversy?

315

What Can Minecraft Teach Us About Learning?

316

Are DOGE Cuts Making America Healthy?

317

Should Kids Be Taking Melatonin?

318

Harnessing Spineless Sea Creatures' Superpowers

319

This Telescope Could Find "Planet 9"

320

Why These Salmon Are On Anxiety Meds

321

Nature Quest: Are Flowers Blooming Early?

322

Should Humans Live On Mars?

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Good Vibrations: How Fiddler Crabs Mate

324

How Nature Makes A Complex Brain

325

Your Allergies May Be Getting Worse

326

All Hail The Butt Flicker

327

How Do Astronomers Find Exoplanets? Wiggles!

328

Could Psychedelics Become Tripless?

329

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

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Why The Trip Complicates Psychedelic Research

331

Could Running Change Your Brain?

332

Tornado Alley: Home Of Extreme Winds

333

The Iguanas That Rafted To Fiji

334

Is AI Ready For Robots?

335

Rare Narwhal Footage Shows New Tusk Activities

336

The Algae That Thrive in Arctic Darkness

337

Climate Change + Baseball = More Home Runs

338

What Scientists Got Wrong About COVID-19

339

What Experts Say About ADHD-Tok

340

What's In Your Personal Care Products?

341

What to Know About The Measles Outbreak

342

Could 'Severance' Become Our Reality?

343

Love Fruit? Thank (Dinosaur) Mass Extinction

344

Let's Talk About (Biological) Sex, Baby

345

Is The Trump Administration Breaking Science?

346

The Great Antarctic Food Web Puzzle

347

Stone Age To Bone Age?

348

Will Bark For Science

349

Reviving The Woolly Mammoth ... With Mice

350

What It's Like Taking Alzheimer's Drugs

351

When Batteries Get A Face Lift, So Do Renewables

352

This Radio Wave Mystery Changed Astronomy

353

Extracting Brains ... For Science

354

What Happens While You're Under Anesthesia?

355

This Is Your Brain On Dessert

356

Party In Peru: New Critters Just Dropped

357

When AI Cannibalizes Its Data

358

Could This Particle 'Clean Up' A Cosmic Mystery?

359

Lessons in Love From Voles

360

Stopping A Deadly Disease On Apache Lands

361

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

362

The Dangers Of Mirror Cell Research

363

How Physics Could Make Big Crowds Safer

364

Microbes: It's Complicated

365

Why Black Holes Are More Than They Seem

366

Not All Nature Comebacks Are Equal

367

10 Technologies To Watch

368

Farts To The Rescue

369

The Latest On Bird Flu

370

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

371

Peeing Is Contagious!

372

Where Are We In The Quest To Find Alien Life?

373

How Will Future Forests Survive Climate Change?

374

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

375

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

376

Some Dinos Had Feathers. Did They Fly?

377

Bone Marrow Cells: Key To Vaccine Longevity?

378

The Science Behind Wildfire Smoke

379

What Are California's Santa Ana Winds?

380

Fluoride: Fact vs. Fiction

381

How Two Veterans Developed The Same Rare Brain Condition

382

The Great Space (Clock) Race

383

Jimmy Carter's Triumph Over The Guinea Worm

384

The Dubious World's Largest Snowflake Record

385

The Trouble With Zero

386

The Biggest Health Stories of 2024

387

Bird Backpacks Could Help This Parrot Bounce Back

388

Why These Squirrels Are Eating Meat

389

Will GMOs Bring Back The American Chestnut Tree?

390

Hear Christmas Carols And Talk To Santa On Ham Radio

391

How Does An Airplane Stay In The Air?

392

The First Woman To Get A New Kind Of Kidney Transplant

393

This Huge Mining Pit Is About To Be A Lake

394

Why Big Tech Wants Nuclear Power

395

How Racism – And Silence – Could Hurt Your Health

396

What's A Weather Forecast Worth?

397

Conan The Bacterium's Superpower: Resisting Radiation

398

In The Club, We All ... Archaea?

399

Grape Growers' Next Collaborators? Robots

400

Who Does Science? Under Trump, That Could Change