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Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame?بقلم Josh Fischman,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim

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Climate Adaptation Can Backfire If We Aren't Careful 11:54

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The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite usبقلم Andrea Thompson

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The Members of This Reservation Learned They Live with Nuclear Weapons. Can Their Reality Ever Be the Same? 14:55

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The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief.بقلم Ella Weber

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What Would It Mean to 'Absorb' a Nuclear Attack? 19:05

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The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground.بقلم Ella Weber

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If You Had a Nuclear Weapon in Your Neighborhood, Would You Want to Know about It? 15:36

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The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that.بقلم Ella Weber

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Just One U.S. Reservation Hosts Nuclear Weapons. This Is The Story of How That Came to Be 17:24

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15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.بقلم Ella Weber

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How Did Nuclear Weapons Get on My Reservation? 18:37

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A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.بقلم Ella Weber

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Quick Naps Are Good for Your Brain 8:03

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Daytime naps of about 30 minutes really improve your thinking and may spark creativity.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Lydia Denworth

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Funding for Research on Psychedelics Is on the Rise, Along with Scientists' Hopes for Using Them 10:32

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As interest and support for psychedelic research grows, scientists share their hopes for the future.بقلم Rachel Nuwer

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Do You Need to 'Trip' for Psychedelics to Work as Medicine? 13:32

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Psychedelic researchers are engaged in heated debate over whether the mind-altering effects of the drugs are necessary for realizing their therapeutic potential.بقلم Rachel Nuwer

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The Search for New Psychedelics 10:12

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As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection?بقلم Rachel Nuwer

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What Are Ultraprocessed Foods, and Are They Bad for You? 11:06

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More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our healthبقلم Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Lori Youmshajekian,Carin Leong,Elah Feder

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These Creatures Are Probably the Closest Thing Nature Has to Real Werewolves 10:16

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Under the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species.بقلم Brian Gutierrez

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The World's Most Frightening Animal Sounds like This 8:42

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Lions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills.بقلم Karen Hopkin

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The Tale of the Rotifer That Came Back to Life after 25,000 Years in an Icy Tomb 5:44

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Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes .بقلم Karen Hopkin

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Generative AI Models Are Sucking Up Data from All Over the Internet, Yours Included 11:22

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In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Lauren Leffer,Tulika Bose,Elah Feder

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Some Parents Show Their Kids They Care with a Corpse 7:04

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If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it’s your job—no matter how difficult—to get one for them.بقلم Emily Schwing

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How to Handle This New COVID Season 8:24

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The dangerous virus is still here. Here’s how you can stay safe.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio,Elah Feder

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As Arctic Sea Ice Breaks Up, AI Is Starting to Predict Where the Ice Will Go 7:59

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Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts created by artificial intelligence the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north?بقلم Emily Schwing

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Scientists Argue Conservation Is under Threat in Indonesia 3:58

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Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions.بقلم Christopher Intagliata

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A Soggy Mission to Sniff Out a Greenhouse Gas 'Bomb' in the High Arctic 7:52

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A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.بقلم Jocie Bentley

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This Indigenous Community Records the Climate Change That Is Causing Its Town to Erode Away 7:33

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In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands.بقلم Jocie Bentley

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Journey to the Thawing Edge of Climate Change 8:42

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What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.بقلم Jocie Bentley

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A Popular Decongestant Doesn't Work. What Does? 8:19

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The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.بقلم Tanya Lewis,Josh Fischman,Carin Leong,Elah Feder

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The State of Large Language Models 11:18

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We present the latest updates on ChatGPT, Bard and other competitors in the artificial intelligence arms race.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Lauren Leffer

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Song of the Stars, Part 3: The Universe in all Senses 10:16

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An astronomy festival in Italy opted to make all of its events and workshops multisensory. The organizers wanted to see whether sound, touch and smell can, like sight, transmit the wonders of the cosmos.بقلم Timmy Broderick,Jason Drakeford,Carin Leong

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Song of the Stars, Part 2: Seeing in the Dark 10:25

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A blind astronomer “sonified” the universe’s most explosive events: gamma-ray bursts. By listening to, rather than looking at, the data, she made a critical discovery and changed the field of astronomy.بقلم Timmy Broderick,Jason Drakeford,Carin Leong

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Song of the Stars, Part 1: Transforming Space into Symphonies 10:32

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Space is famously silent, but astronomers and musicians are increasingly turning astronomical data into sound as a way to make discoveries and inspire people who are blind or visually impaired.بقلم Timmy Broderick,Jason Drakeford,Carin Leong

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This Researcher Captured Air from the Amazon in Dive-Bombs--And Found Grim Clues That the Forest Is Dying 15:13

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One researcher has been hiring planes to strafe the sky over the Amazon rain forest to collect the air coming off the trees, and what she is finding is cause for alarm.بقلم Daniel Grossman

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Should You Get a Blood Test For Alzheimer's? 9:16

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Consumers can now get easy tests for Alzheimer’s. But these tests may not really help patients that much—yet.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim

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Ada Limón's Poem for Europa, Jupiter's Smallest Galilean Moon 14:27

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U.S. Poet Laureate Ada Limón discusses her involvement in NASA’s Europa Clipper mission and the inspiration behind her poem, which will travel onboard the spacecraft.بقلم Brianne Kane,Kelso Harper,Carin Leong

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How the Woolly Bear Caterpillar Does Something Pretty Amazing to Survive the Winter 7:16

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Caterpillars can’t regulate their body temperatures, so they have to come up with a totally different strategy to make it through the coldest months of the year.بقلم Kate Furby,Jeffery DelViscio

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Bees 'Buzz' in More Ways Than You Might Think 6:09

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A honeybee swarm has as much electric charge as a thundercloud, and the insects’ mass movements in the atmosphere might even have some influence on the weather.بقلم Shayla Love,Jeffery DelViscio

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Scientists Are Beginning to Learn the Language of Bats and Bees Using AI 11:10

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The new field of digital bioacoustics is using machine learning to try decipher animal speak, including honeybee toots and quacks and whoops.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Kelso Harper,Jeffery DelViscio

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Trying to Train Your Brain Faster? Knowing This Might Help with That 4:46

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Are you working really hard to learn something? Remember this counterintuitive fact, and you might improve your learning curve.بقلم Karen Hopkin,Jeffery DelViscio

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This Tick Bite Makes You Allergic to Red Meat 8:21

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The bite of the lone star tick makes people allergic to a sugar found in mammalian products, and many doctors don’t know about it.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Alexa Lim

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This Lesbian Monkey Love Triangle Tells Us Something Really Interesting about Darwin's 'Paradox' 13:38

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A “Darwinian paradox” is that homosexual activity occurs even though it does not lead to or aid in reproduction. But if you visit three capuchin monkeys in Los Angeles, they’ll show you how beneficial their liaisons are.بقلم Natalia Reagan

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What the Luddites Can Teach Us about AI 10:04

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The Luddites did not hate technology—but they did fight the way it was used to exploit humans.بقلم Sophie Bushwick,Elah Feder

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A Pig Kidney Was Just Transplanted Into a Human Body, and It Is Still Working 12:14

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Xenotransplants could help to solve the organ transplant crisis—if researchers can get the science right.بقلم Tanya Lewis,Jeffery DelViscio,Alexa Lim

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Migratory Birds Are in Peril, but Knowing Where They Are at Night Could Help Save Them 14:10

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Light is a very dangerous, if not so obvious, threat to birds who migrate at night. But researchers are using weather radar to track birds and provide “lights out” forecasts to help keep their paths clear of visual distraction.بقلم Jacob Job

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Artificial Intelligence Is Helping Us 'See' Some of the Billions of Birds Migrating at Night 12:01

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Science is turning to machines to unlock the secrets of the vast, mysterious pulse-of-the-planet phenomenon that is nocturnal migration.بقلم Jacob Job

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Here's How You Go Birding in the Middle of the Night 11:34

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If you really want to challenging your bird identification skills, try using them at night, when bird calls are less than 100 milliseconds long.بقلم Jacob Job

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Using Human-Sized Microphones and Hay Bales, They Unlocked the Mysteries of Bird Migration 15:25

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For thousands of years, no one truly knew how birds migrated—that is, until a few unlikely pioneers sat in an empty field with hundreds of pounds of kludged together recording gear and waited to hear sounds that no one had ever captured.بقلم Jacob Job

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They Tap Into the Magical, Hidden Pulse of the Planet, but What is the Nighttime Bird Surveillance Network? 9:02

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On any given night, dense clouds of dark, ghostly figures pass over your head as you sleep. Maybe you never knew they were there, but there are people out there who are deciphering all the unseen movement that happens amid the darkness.بقلم Jacob Job

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Hearing Aids Stave Off Cognitive Decline 12:19

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Hearing aids may help maintain better brain functions in older people and better health overall.بقلم Josh Fischman,Tanya Lewis,Carin Leong,Elah Feder

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In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You 8:19

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Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure.بقلم Shayla Love,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose

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The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests? 12:49

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Here’s how scientists are planning on getting underground fungi data from space using satellites.بقلم Meg Duff,Jeffery DelViscio,Tulika Bose

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The Fungi Economy, Part 2: Here's How Plants and Fungi Trade beneath Our Feet 15:46

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Atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to “buy” nutrients from fungi in the soil. To find out where this economy will go next, the devil is in the details. And the details are in the dirt.بقلم Meg Duff,Tulika Bose,Jeffery DelViscio

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