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Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens
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These Adorable Fish Robots Form Schools Like the Real Thing
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In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible
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A New Field Guide for Earth’s Wild Microbes
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5 mins; December 22, 2020
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11 mins; December 21, 2020
Who Will We Be When This Is All Over?
9 mins; December 18, 2020
For the Second Time Ever, an Asteroid Sample Returns to Earth
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Another Victim of Global Warming: The Great British Bake Off
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Underground Brine Could Be a Source of Oxygen on Mars
4 mins; December 15, 2020
The Incredible Journey of the Electronic Plastic Bottle
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6 mins; December 10, 2020
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The Physics of Materials at Minus 80 Degrees Celsius
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Fireball Is Werner Herzog’s Ode to Space Rocks
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How to Reduce (but Not Eliminate) Covid Risk at Holiday Gatherings
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6 mins; November 20, 2020
Want to Fight the Zombie Fire Apocalypse? Weaponize Math
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Winning Trust for a Vaccine Means Confronting Medical Racism
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These Oceanographers Want to Turn Marine Slime Into Drugs
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How Humanity Spent Its First 20 Years in Orbit Aboard the ISS
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A New Way to Plug a Human Brain into a Computer: via Veins
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9 mins; November 09, 2020
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12 mins; November 06, 2020
Babies May Be Drinking Millions of Microplastic Particles a Day
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11 mins; November 04, 2020
Can Placebos Work—Even When Patients Know They’re Fake?
14 mins; November 03, 2020
The Case for Reviving the Civilian Conservation Corps
11 mins; November 02, 2020
How the Venus Flytrap ‘Remembers’ When It Captures Prey
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Uh-Oh. Russia's Laptev Sea Should Have Started to Freeze by Now
5 mins; October 29, 2020
There May Be Far More Water on the Moon Than NASA Thought
9 mins; October 28, 2020
How the ‘Diabolical’ Beetle Survives Being Run Over by a Car
9 mins; October 27, 2020
Want Some Eco-Friendly Tips? A New Study Says No, You Don’t
7 mins; October 26, 2020
The Preexisting Conditions of the Coronavirus Pandemic
10 mins; October 23, 2020
Wild Predators Are Relying More on Our Food—and Pets
6 mins; October 22, 2020
What Forest Floor Playgrounds Teach Us about Kids and Germs
10 mins; October 20, 2020
What Would Happen if All the Antarctic Ice Melted?
8 mins; October 19, 2020
Meteorite Is a Love Letter to Space Rocks
8 mins; October 16, 2020
The Most Sway-Prone Buildings in LA Aren’t Where You Expect
7 mins; October 15, 2020
New York Is Trying Targeted Lockdowns. Will It Stop a Second Wave?
11 mins; October 14, 2020
A Global Data Effort Probes Whether Covid Causes Diabetes
9 mins; October 13, 2020
This Congresswoman Wants to Rev Up Covid Testing
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The Wire Inspired a Fake Turtle Egg That Spies on Poachers
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Anthony Fauci Has Some Very Good Reasons to Be Optimistic
6 mins; October 08, 2020
Taiwan’s Digital Minister Knows How to Crush Covid-19: Trust
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12 mins; October 06, 2020
Meet Curly, the Curling Robot That Beats the Pros
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The Coronavirus Dashboard Creator Has a New Target: Elections
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Colds Nearly Vanished Under Lockdown. Now They’re Coming Back
11 mins; September 30, 2020
The Cool Physics of a Supersonic Baseball
10 mins; September 29, 2020
What’s Causing the Mass Bird Die-Off in the Southwest?
5 mins; September 28, 2020
How the Pandemic Transformed This Songbird’s Call
8 mins; September 25, 2020
Is Lightning-Fast Plasma the Key to a Cleaner Car Engine?
12 mins; September 24, 2020
If You've Just Had Covid, Exercise Might Not Be Good for You
8 mins; September 23, 2020
What’s in Wildfire Smoke, and How Dangerous Is It?
9 mins; September 22, 2020
Blood Centers Are Barely Meeting Convalescent Plasma Demand
9 mins; September 21, 2020
These New Shape-Shifting Materials Get Super Cool, Super Fast
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Your Beloved Blue Jeans Are Polluting the Ocean—Big Time
11 mins; September 17, 2020
Those Orange Western Skies and the Science of Light
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9 mins; September 15, 2020
Mathematicians Report New Discovery About the Dodecahedron
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Flu Season and Covid-19 Are About to Collide. Now What?
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Could a Tree Help Find a Decaying Corpse Nearby?
9 mins; September 10, 2020
Climate Change Drove the American Mastodon to Extinction
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Your Smartphone Can Tell If You’re Drunk-Walking
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A Grim Reality of Reopening: More Mold
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A Beautiful Yet Grim Map Shows How Wildfire Smoke Spreads
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A California Wildfire Nearly Destroyed the Historic Lick Observatory
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California Wildfires Can Create Their Own Terrifying Weather
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Elon Musk Is About to Show Off His Neuralink Brain Implant
5 mins; September 01, 2020
Scientists Want to Ditch Formula for Lab-Grown Breast Milk
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A Postal Slowdown Is Scary for Those Who Get Meds By Mail
10 mins; August 28, 2020
This Cobalt-Free Battery Is Good for the Planet—and It Actually Works
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Want to Save Lives? Name Heat Waves Like Hurricanes
7 mins; August 25, 2020
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