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Airplanes hit wildlife. Here’s how scientists are trying to prevent it.

Why some city neighborhoods are hotter than others

Understanding brain signals through music made from neurons

This alien-like metal may one day power your electronics

Trees migrate. This scientist shoots them to understand how

“Flushable” wipes are ruining sewage plants

This metal is more valuable than gold

How this sensor could help reopen indoor spaces

Is it time to say goodbye to the gas stove?

How a metal with a memory will shape our future on Mars

This seaweed can fight climate change

What is Perseverance doing on Mars exactly?

Blood types are a 20-million-year mystery

How to memorize 70,000 digits of Pi

One rocket launch can’t unify America

Moon exploration is coming back in a big way

We met the world’s first domesticated foxes

Why labs are printing the coronavirus genome

This is what sea level rise will do to coastal cities

The coronavirus is mutating. But don’t freak out yet.

See how the coronavirus spreads so easily

Insulin should be cheap. Here’s why its not.

Here’s what police body cameras don’t show you

Elon Musk’s Neuralink: what’s science and what’s not

How time zones are subtly messing with you

This synthetic DNA contains our message to the future

The science and controversy behind your lightbulbs

The infuriating truth behind elevator buttons

The problem with tracking fevers during coronavirus

NASA's InSight spacecraft just launched to Mars

NASA’s InSight Mars landing: what it really took

The new supercomputer behind the US nuclear arsenal

Sea level rise is so much more than melting ice

88,000 tons of radioactive waste – and nowhere to put it

Why graphene hasn’t taken over the world...yet

Unlocking the secrets hidden inside your voice

Testing out an astronaut’s exercise regimen

The real reasons the US refuses to go metric

The at-home DNA test craze is putting us all at risk

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We tested NYC water for lead and the results were confounding

Inside the risky venture of Spaceport America

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Carbon nanotubes built this bizarre ultrablack material

Your next phone could lead to another pandemic

What zero gravity really feels like in the “vomit comet”