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Ionized air and wires may take headphones to the next level.

They’re not all magical and entangled. These fungi will kill you.

For cyclists, it’s a drag when you don’t shave your legs.

At first Adam Smith couldn’t believe his calculations. Then it sank in.

Researchers are studying their extraordinary flight patterns to help us build tiny aircraft and protect global ecosystems.

Michael Levin is uncovering the incredible, latent abilities of living things.

Risky and stressful ceremonies help crystallize who we are—and heal us, too.

Lunar soil is rich with clues about our origin and future home in space. Scientists can’t wait to get their hands dirty.

Why colonists on the Red Planet are bound to become a new species.

The sex stereotypes built into animal research.

Physicist Alan Lightman on evolution and atheism, creativity and spirituality.

Paleotempestology promises to uncover patterns of historical hurricanes—to better predict destructive weather of the future.