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Could the Sun’s Orbit Shape Evolution?
The connection between our massive star and the tiniest microplankton
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Lifetime of Friendships Slows Aging
Social ties are deeply connected to how fast your biological clock ticks
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The Divers Who Stretch the Limits of Human Biology
The most dangerous job on Earth is at the bottom of the sea
The Porthole
Short sharp looks at science
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How the Statues of Easter Island Walked Into Place
The iconic heads hewn from volcanic rock may have been wobbled into place by the Rapa Nui people who created them
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Making Art with Pythons and Lionfish
One artist is raising awareness of invasive species by creating paintings with their discarded remains
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High-Tech Lollipops That Detect Disease
This researcher crosses disciplines for unexpected innovations
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A Pediatrician’s Lament
How the blustery rhetoric of Trump and Kennedy makes life harder for local physicians
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The Power Grid Is Struggling. Can AI Fix It?
Renewables, EVs, and AI itself are straining the grid. These researchers have ideas to evolve it.
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New Life for Rotting Seaweed
Problematic piles of Sargassum could serve as useful raw material for a variety of products
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How AI Is Helping Archaeologists Make Discoveries
New clues about ancient civilizations are being unearthed from the data
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Modeling the Deep
An ambitious mission seeks to map the flow of crucial chemicals through marine food webs in far-flung oceanic gyres
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The Deep Ocean Is a Global Public Good
This visionary new initiative would do more than save the ocean. It would regenerate it.
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Seeking Signs of Life on Venus
The first private mission to the morning star will sample for traces of biological activity in the planet’s clouds
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Creating a Cosmic Movie
Making sense of a new era of time-domain astronomy from the Rubin Observatory
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What’s Wrong with Having an AI Friend?
Psychologist Paul Bloom on why chatbots make good companions. And why they don’t.
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The Periscope: Book Weeding, Fact-Checking, and Imperiled Fruit Fly Data
What Nautilus executive editor Katherine Courage has been tuning into recently
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AI Already Knows Us Too Well
Chatbots profile our personalities, which could give them the keys to drive our thoughts—and actions
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In the Land of the Eyeless Dragons
The cave-dwelling olm is a canary in the coal mine for environmental change
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Visit the 7 Most Extreme Planets in the Universe
From molten glass rain to oceans of lava, an intergalactic tour of the most terrifying and beautiful climates out there
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The Sean Carrolls Explain the Universe
Why are we here? Is there life on other planets? The renowned scientists who share a name share their answers to life’s big questions.
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The Soviet Rebel of Music
He composed on a computer in a dangerous time. His echo is still heard today.
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How Whales Could Help Us Speak to Aliens
Learning to decode complex communication on Earth may give us a leg up if intelligent life from space makes contact.
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This Is What Happens When AI Talks to Itself
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This Is What a Baboon Reunion Looks Like
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Was Jesus a Shaman?
Three questions for Manvir Singh, author of Shamanism: The Timeless Religion -
How to Get an Elephant’s Attention
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What Made Horses Rideable
How horse genetics and human culture co-evolved -
Daydream Your Way to Life-Changing Insights
Certain kinds of mind wandering can lead to powerful epiphanies -
Should We Bring the Dead Back to Life?
The hidden dangers of virtual ghosts -
A Library for Fish Sounds
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Deep Sleep Is This Mammal’s Super Power
How a threatened Australian marsupial is thriving in the face of drought -
Ghostly Swamp Lightning Explained
The tiny sparks behind spooky myths might have also started life on Earth -
The Extreme Animals in Our Backyards
Alex Riley’s three greatest revelations while writing Super Natural -
Earth’s Largest Mirror Shattered by Science
The Bolivian salt flat long touted as a massive looking glass loses some of its shine -
Butterfly Wings Inspire Barrier-Breaking Nanotech
Mimicking the charismatic insect’s trick for flashing iridescent blue allows devices to grow ever smaller -
A Nano-sized Art Gallery
Vote on your favorite miniature art pieces and discover their link to futuristic research -
The Silent Language of Birds
These songbirds swap chirps for blinks when nature drowns them out -
Extraterrestrials are People, Too
Should we grant legal rights to extraterrestrial lifeforms before we find them? -
Is Life a Form of Computation?
Alan Turing and John von Neumann saw it early: the logic of life and the logic of code may be one and the same. -
New Eyes on Space Weather
From threats of solar storms to cosmic radiation, new efforts to warn Earthlings are launching -
Hunting the Most Elusive Whale
A new roadmap for identifying the ocean’s singing ghosts -
The Heart of a Haunting Galaxy
This “Phantom Galaxy” is riddled with holes that may be the handiwork of violent stars
