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2022 Wasn't the Hottest on Record. That's Nothing to Celebrate
7 mins; January 16, 2023
Let’s Go to Mars. Let’s Not Live There
12 mins; January 13, 2023
You Don’t Need to Fear a World of 8 Billion Humans
6 mins; January 12, 2023
Here’s What’s Next for Pig Organ Transplants
10 mins; January 11, 2023
Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise
7 mins; January 10, 2023
A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing
9 mins; January 09, 2023
The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox
9 mins; January 06, 2023
Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw
7 mins; January 05, 2023
Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield
7 mins; January 04, 2023
The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard
10 mins; January 02, 2023
Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?
8 mins; December 30, 2022
How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet?
12 mins; December 29, 2022
How the UN’s ‘Sex Agency’ Uses Tech to Save Mothers’ Lives
11 mins; December 28, 2022
The Grim Origins of an Ominous Methane Surge
8 mins; December 23, 2022
Antihelium Offers Hope in the Search for Dark Matter
7 mins; December 22, 2022
A Smart Way to Get Ahead of the Next Flu Surge
8 mins; December 21, 2022
The Real Fusion Energy Breakthrough Is Still Decades Away
8 mins; December 20, 2022
How Do You Prove There’s Ice on the Moon? With a Lunar Flashlight
6 mins; December 19, 2022
The Orion Moon Capsule Is Back. What Happens Next?
6 mins; December 16, 2022
‘Solar Twins’ Reveal the Consistency of the Universe
8 mins; December 15, 2022
The Next Great Overdose-Reversing Drug Might Already Exist
9 mins; December 14, 2022
The Extraordinary Shelf Life of the Deep Sea Sandwiches
9 mins; December 13, 2022
This Low-Cost Test for Hearing Loss Lives on a Smartphone
7 mins; December 12, 2022
Electronic Second Skins Are the Wearables of the Future
5 mins; December 09, 2022
The Era of One-Shot, Multimillion-Dollar Genetic Cures Is Here
10 mins; December 08, 2022
A Proactive Way to Detect Cancer at Its Earliest Stages
5 mins; December 07, 2022
Pop-Up Farming Pods to Help Colonizers Grow Crops on Mars
4 mins; December 05, 2022
Pliocene-Like Monsoons Are Returning to the American Southwest
8 mins; December 05, 2022
'Gold Hydrogen’ Is an Untapped Resource in Depleted Oil Wells
8 mins; December 02, 2022
For Alzheimer’s Scientists, the Amyloid Debate Has No Easy Answers
9 mins; December 01, 2022
Vertical Farming Needs to Grow More Than Salad
2 mins; November 30, 2022
How to Use a Laser to Kick an Electron out of a Molecule
8 mins; November 29, 2022
Turns Out Fighting Mosquitoes With Mosquitoes Actually Works
8 mins; November 28, 2022
Tiny Aerosols Pose a Big Predicament in a Warming World
6 mins; November 24, 2022
NASA Will Not Change the James Webb Telescope's Name
4 mins; November 23, 2022
Your Phone Can Determine If a Bridge Is Busted
7 mins; November 22, 2022
Europe’s Cities Are Getting More Crowded—That’s a Good Thing
9 mins; November 21, 2022
No, Qatar’s World Cup Can’t Be Classed as Carbon-Neutral
10 mins; November 18, 2022
Countries Hit Hardest by Climate Change May Finally Get Their Due
9 mins; November 16, 2022
Brace Yourself for a Triple Wave of Seasonal Viruses
8 mins; November 16, 2022
This Gulp of Engineered Bacteria Is Meant to Treat Disease
8 mins; November 15, 2022
This Personalized Crispr Therapy Is Designed to Attack Tumors
5 mins; November 14, 2022
How Peaceful Crowds Turn Into a Deadly Crush
6 mins; November 11, 2022
The Sci-Fi Dream of a ‘Molecular Computer’ Is Getting More Real
8 mins; November 10, 2022
A Caustic Shift Is Coming for the Arctic Ocean
8 mins; November 09, 2022
How to Detect a Man-Made Biothreat
11 mins; November 08, 2022
This Platform Makes Sure Companies Stick to Their Climate Pledges
6 mins; November 07, 2022
Thawing Permafrost Exposes Old Pathogens—and New Hosts
6 mins; November 04, 2022
The ‘Brightest of All Time’ Gamma-Ray Burst Sparks a Supernova Hunt
6 mins; November 03, 2022
A Clever Way to Map the Moon’s Surface—Using Shadows
7 mins; November 02, 2022
The New Math of Wrinkling Patterns
11 mins; November 01, 2022
Rats Are Invasive Menaces. These Cameras Spy on Them
7 mins; October 31, 2022
A New Tool for Eruption Forecasting: Carbon-Catching Drones
7 mins; October 28, 2022
The US Is Finally Considering Protections Against Salmonella
9 mins; October 27, 2022
How Iodine Pills Can—and Can’t—Help Against Radiation
6 mins; October 26, 2022
Big Pharma Says Drug Prices Reflect R&D Cost. Researchers Call BS
6 mins; October 25, 2022
Lab-Grown Human Brain Tissue Works in Rats
7 mins; October 24, 2022
Gas Drilling Is Disrupting Animal Migration
7 mins; October 21, 2022
Robots Are Helping Immunocompromised Kids ‘Go to School’
7 mins; October 20, 2022
Cities Need More Native Bees—Lots and Lots of Adorable Bees
7 mins; October 19, 2022
Wildfire Smoke May Carry Deadly Fungi Long Distances
9 mins; October 18, 2022
It’s Time to Treat Housing Insecurity as a Health Risk
6 mins; October 17, 2022
The FCC's Rules on Space Junk Just Got Stricter
7 mins; October 14, 2022
A Bold Effort to Cure HIV—Using Crispr
7 mins; October 13, 2022
Scientists Have Discovered a New Set of Blood Groups
7 mins; October 12, 2022
A Huge New Data Set Pushes the Limits of Neuroscience
9 mins; October 11, 2022
The Problem With Mental Health Bots
8 mins; October 10, 2022
Sofia, the Historic Airplane-Borne Telescope, Lands for the Last Time
12 mins; October 07, 2022
The Era of Fast, Cheap Genome Sequencing Is Here
9 mins; October 06, 2022
Climate Change Is Burying Archaeological Sites Under Tons of Sand
8 mins; October 05, 2022
What Is a Wetland Worth?
14 mins; October 04, 2022
How to Find Your Vaccine History—and Store It Safely
9 mins; October 03, 2022
There’s New Proof Crispr Can Edit Genes Inside Human Bodies
7 mins; September 30, 2022
Lawns Are Dumb. But Ripping Them Out May Come With a Catch
8 mins; September 29, 2022
The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria
8 mins; September 28, 2022
The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong
9 mins; September 27, 2022
To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte
8 mins; September 26, 2022
How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science
7 mins; September 23, 2022
Teaching ‘Selfish’ Wind Turbines to Share Can Boost Productivity
7 mins; September 22, 2022
New Reservoirs Could Help Battle Droughts, but at What Cost?
9 mins; September 21, 2022
The Legendary Frank Drake Shaped the Search for Alien Life
10 mins; September 20, 2022
Forget Silicon. This Computer Is Made of Fabric
7 mins; September 19, 2022
Why Pain Feels Worse at Night
9 mins; September 16, 2022
Humanity Is Doing Its Best Impression of a Black Hole
9 mins; September 15, 2022
This Follicle-Hacking Drug Could One Day Treat Baldness
10 mins; September 14, 2022
Greenland’s Melting Glaciers Spew a Complicated Treasure: Sand
7 mins; September 13, 2022
To Fight Severe Drought, China Is Turning to Technology
6 mins; September 12, 2022
Can a Particle Accelerator Trace the Origins of Printing?
12 mins; September 09, 2022
Is the Psychedelic Therapy Bubble About to Burst?
11 mins; September 08, 2022
The Long, Leguminous Quest to Give Crops Nitrogen Superpowers
10 mins; September 07, 2022
Swarms of Satellites Are Tracking Illegal Fishing and Logging
7 mins; September 06, 2022
Satellites Keep the World’s Clocks on Time. What if They Fail?
11 mins; September 02, 2022
This Giant Sprinkler System Can Protect Cities from Wildfires
8 mins; September 01, 2022
Egg and Sperm Donors Could Be Required to Share Their Medical Records
8 mins; August 31, 2022
At Some Colleges, the Fall of Roe Will Weaken Student Health Care
13 mins; August 30, 2022
How Long Droughts Make Flooding Worse
6 mins; August 29, 2022
New Evidence Points to the Moon Once Being Part of Earth
6 mins; August 25, 2022
Is Oxygen the Answer to Long Covid?
9 mins; August 24, 2022
As Wildfires Get More Extreme, Observatories Are at Greater Risk
6 mins; August 23, 2022
Doctors Are Pioneering a Better Way to Perform Autopsies on Kids
