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Walden Pond Is Now Teeming With Jellyfish—but Don't Panic
8 mins; June 08, 2021
A New Brain Implant Translates Thoughts of Writing Into Text
6 mins; June 07, 2021
Mexico City Could Sink Up to 65 Feet
8 mins; June 04, 2021
The Yankees Covid Outbreak May Be Bad News for Ditching Masks
7 mins; June 03, 2021
Researchers Shed Light on the Perils of Firefly Tourism
7 mins; June 02, 2021
What If Gravity Is Actually a Double Copy of Other Forces?
9 mins; June 01, 2021
Bad Weather Forecasts Are a Climate Crisis Disaster
8 mins; May 31, 2021
US Teens Can Get Their Covid Shot. What's Next for Schools?
9 mins; May 28, 2021
This Is Your Brain Under Anesthesia
9 mins; May 27, 2021
Hurricane ‘Price Tags’ Could Reveal the Cost of Global Warming
8 mins; May 26, 2021
What’s the Point of Wasps, Anyway?
5 mins; May 25, 2021
Sharks Use the Earth’s Magnetic Field Like a Compass
7 mins; May 24, 2021
It’s Already Time to Stop the Next Pandemic. Can a Prize Help?
12 mins; May 21, 2021
How Weird, Bouncy Cell Signals Can Help Track Wildfire Smoke
6 mins; May 20, 2021
When You Jump to Hyperspace, Make Sure You Wear a Seatbelt
7 mins; May 19, 2021
Why Not Turn Airports Into Giant Solar Farms?
7 mins; May 18, 2021
The Race to Save St. Mark’s Basilica From Salty Floodwaters
8 mins; May 17, 2021
The Brain ‘Rotates’ Memories to Save Them From New Sensations
9 mins; May 14, 2021
Melting Mountain Glaciers May Not Survive the Century
6 mins; May 13, 2021
35 Years Later, Studies Show a Silver Lining From Chernobyl
10 mins; May 12, 2021
This Human-Sized Origami Reimagines Emergency Shelters
11 mins; May 11, 2021
NASA Launches Astronauts to the ISS on a Reused SpaceX Rocket
11 mins; May 10, 2021
After Us the Deluge Captures Images of a Sinking World
7 mins; May 07, 2021
Archaeologists Unearth a ‘Lost Golden City’ in Egypt
6 mins; May 06, 2021
We’re Starting to See How Covid PPE Litter Affects Wildlife
7 mins; May 05, 2021
Can an App Help Change Your Personality?
9 mins; May 04, 2021
Hungry, Hungry Microbes in Tree Bark Gobble Up Methane
10 mins; May 03, 2021
NASA Lands Ingenuity, the First Ever Mars Helicopter
14 mins; April 30, 2021
What Octopus Dreams Tell Us About the Evolution of Sleep
10 mins; April 29, 2021
Humble Shrub That’s Predicting a Terrible Fire Season
8 mins; April 28, 2021
Will Future Electric Vehicles Be Powered by Deep-Sea Metals?
11 mins; April 27, 2021
Plastic Is Falling From the Sky. But Where’s It Coming From?
8 mins; April 26, 2021
How Many Homes Could You Power With Free Doughnuts?
5 mins; April 23, 2021
Pandemic Lockdowns Did Cut Air Pollution—but With a Catch
8 mins; April 22, 2021
The High-Powered Thrusters Behind NASA's Mission to Psyche
7 mins; April 21, 2021
Covid-19 Vaccine Passports Are Coming. What Will That Mean?
12 mins; April 20, 2021
This Sticker Absorbs Sweat—and Might Diagnose Cystic Fibrosis
9 mins; April 19, 2021
More Lightning in the Arctic Is Bad News for the Planet
7 mins; April 16, 2021
The Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Birthed Today's Rainforests
6 mins; April 15, 2021
Sneaky New Bacteria on the ISS Could Build a Future on Mars
12 mins; April 14, 2021
Narwhal Tusks Tell a Troubling Tale
7 mins; April 13, 2021
The Weird Science of Loneliness and Our Brains
11 mins; April 12, 2021
This Robot Could Help Fulfill Your Online Shopping Sprees
11 mins; April 09, 2021
The Feds Want You to Destroy This Sneaky Mussel’s Hiding Spot
8 mins; April 08, 2021
Boston Dynamics’ New Robot Doesn’t Dance. It Has a Warehouse Job
5 mins; April 07, 2021
Scientists Finally Identify a Deadly Toxin That's Been Killing Birds
11 mins; April 06, 2021
How to Kill a Zombie Fire
6 mins; April 05, 2021
Even Mild Brain Injuries Raise the Risk of Dementia
10 mins; April 02, 2021
Fossils in a Forgotten Ice Core Rewrite Greenland’s Icy Past
8 mins; April 01, 2021
How Food Waste Could Be Turned Into Climate-Friendly Jet Fuel
7 mins; March 31, 2021
Why Covering Canals With Solar Panels Is a Power Move
7 mins; March 30, 2021
Satellites Can Help Detect When a Volcano's About to Blow
3 mins; March 29, 2021
An Ultracold Plasma Models the Universe’s Most Extreme Places
8 mins; March 26, 2021
NASA Gets a Quick Peek at a Mysterious Layer of the Sun
8 mins; March 25, 2021
New Kind of Space Explosion Reveals the Birth of a Black Hole
7 mins; March 24, 2021
Offshore Energy Gets a Second Wind Under Biden
9 mins; March 23, 2021
How to Find a Covid-19 Vaccine Appointment in Your Area
12 mins; March 22, 2021
This Fingertip for Robots Uses Magnets to ‘Feel’ Things
8 mins; March 19, 2021
Hey, So These Sea Slugs Decapitate Themselves and Grow New Bodies
6 mins; March 18, 2021
‘We’re Vaccinated. Everyone Wants to Visit. Now What?’
14 mins; March 16, 2021
The Tide Is High–and Getting Higher
8 mins; March 15, 2021
If You Transplant a Human Head, Does Its Consciousness Follow?
12 mins; March 12, 2021
Sleuths Read Old Booby-Trapped Letters Without Opening Them
12 mins; March 11, 2021
Anthony Fauci Pleads: Don’t Declare Victory
11 mins; March 10, 2021
This Is What It's Like to Live Without Smell
7 mins; March 09, 2021
The Mantis Shrimp Inspires a New Material—Made by Bacteria
7 mins; March 08, 2021
Million-Year-Old DNA Rewrites Mammoths' Evolutionary Tree
7 mins; March 05, 2021
When the Grid Goes Down, Can a Fleet of Batteries Replace It?
11 mins; March 04, 2021
Nature Makes Wood. Could a Lab Make It Better?
10 mins; March 03, 2021
Birders’ Tweets Are Causing an Online Flap
10 mins; March 02, 2021
Researchers Are Studying These Worm Blobs to Build Robots
9 mins; March 01, 2021
Don’t Tell Einstein, but Black Holes Might Have ‘Hair’
7 mins; February 26, 2021
What Happens When You Swap a Human Gene With a Neanderthal’s?
8 mins; February 25, 2021
NASA Wants to Set a New Radiation Limit for Astronauts
10 mins; February 24, 2021
How Steel Might Finally Kick Its Coal Habit
9 mins; February 23, 2021
How to Make a Fitbit for an Elephant
11 mins; February 22, 2021
How This Teeny-Tiny Sea Critter Punches Like Mike Tyson
10 mins; February 19, 2021
How Did They Find the Secret Space Lab in Captain Marvel?
8 mins; February 18, 2021
More Covid Vaccine Choices Mean New Equity Challenges
11 mins; February 17, 2021
American Cities Are Way Underreporting Their Carbon Footprints
10 mins; February 16, 2021
How Universes Might Bubble Up and Collide
10 mins; February 15, 2021
Dozens of Egyptian Tombs Will Be Unearthed at Saqqara Necropolis
7 mins; February 12, 2021
Why Kids Matter in the Quest to Stamp Out Covid-19
11 mins; February 11, 2021
The Trump Administration Left Biden With a Rocket Dilemma
9 mins; February 10, 2021
Sun-Loving Bacteria May Be Accelerating Glacial Melting
7 mins; February 09, 2021
The Secret Ingredient That Powers Supernovas
11 mins; February 08, 2021
Is It Time for an Emergency Rollout of Carbon-Eating Machines?
12 mins; February 05, 2021
Are Mass Clinics the Solution for Covid-19 Vaccination?
12 mins; February 04, 2021
A Year Ago I Asked: How Bad Could Covid Get? Now We Know
12 mins; February 03, 2021
These Recharge Rooms Are Helping Health Care Workers Cope
12 mins; February 02, 2021
NASA Is Training an AI to Detect Fresh Craters on Mars
8 mins; February 01, 2021
Is This a Fossilized Lair of the Dreaded Bobbit Worm?
7 mins; January 29, 2021
Can an AI Predict the Language of Viral Mutation?
11 mins; January 28, 2021
The Arctic Ocean Is Teeming With Microfibers From Clothes
8 mins; January 27, 2021
Virgin Orbit Just Launched a Rocket From a 747
8 mins; January 26, 2021
The Ongoing Collapse of the World's Aquifers
10 mins; January 25, 2021
Vaping Doesn't Keep Young People From Smoking Cigarettes Later
9 mins; January 22, 2021
What Would It Take to Run a City on 100 Percent Clean Energy?
7 mins; January 21, 2021
The Mystery of the World’s Loneliest Penguins
7 mins; January 20, 2021
How Long Would It Take for a 747 to Stop, Like in Tenet?
