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Three experts break down how misinformation and propaganda spread through conflict, and how to debunk it yourself.بقلم Tulika Bose,Sophie Bushwick

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

المرة دي حندردش مع د وليد عمار عن الذكاء الصناعي و تأثيره على المجتمع, د وليد من خبراء الذكاء الصناعي و من اللي اشتغلوا في المجال سواء من أكثر من زاوية, سواء من زاوية الأكاديميا و البحث العلمي, أو من الناحية التطبيقية و العملية. - Did scientific innovation (eg, AI) improve our lives?- How does early stage scientific innovation translate into econom…

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

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