Big Beef is wooing science teachers with webinars and lesson plans in an attempt to change kids’ perceptions of the industry. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

“Distributed acoustic sensing” looks for disturbances in fiber to detect earthquakes and even insects. Can it also improve rail safety? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Details are scarce, but Elon Musk says initial results are “promising.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Welcome to the world’s foremost training ground for saving space from disasters, disputes, and—perhaps one day—colonizers named Musk. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Several gene therapies aim to restore a protein necessary for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The winter sport is becoming more treacherous as the world warms and icefalls become less and less stable. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research finds that the groundwater systems that hydrate your life are in rapid, sometimes accelerating decline around the globe. Here’s how to stop the retreat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On Monday, Cameroon became the first nation to establish routine childhood malaria immunizations. The race is on to give protection to as many people as possible. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Strand Therapeutics has figured out a way to turn the molecule on and off in certain tissues to more precisely treat tumors. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After doubts were raised about a 31-year-old dog, Guinness World Records has paused its records for the world’s oldest dogs, leaving one super-old dog in limbo. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers want to use genetically engineered pig organs to help support people with liver failure. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cases of scabies, a highly contagious parasitic skin disease, are on the rise across Europe. The UK in particular is struggling with a shortage of treatments. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The numbers are in: 2023’s global temperatures not only soared, but smashed the previous record set in 2016. This year could be even hotter. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two tragic crashes over the past six years, then a third plane with loose bodywork—the aircraft designed to send Boeing’s reputation soaring has sent it into a tailspin. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Politicians claim the move could provide vital minerals for the green transition. Critics say opening up exploration creates geopolitical headaches and is environmentally unsound. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It’s like fossil fuels, but in reverse. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US is in the midst of the largest Covid surge since Omicron, but with minimal testing and good population immunity, the wave is largely being ignored. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are finding a dynamic story in human physiology linked to frigid temperatures—a story that climate change may rewrite. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the year that “absolutely gobsmackingly bananas” summed up the climate emergency. But dramatic descriptors extend to the huge gains humanity has made too. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Up and down the Atlantic Coast, the land is steadily sinking, or subsiding. That’s destabilizing levees, roads, and airports, just as sea levels are rising. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It’s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Carbon-neutral concrete could transform construction’s footprint—if it can scale in time. At Partanna Global, Bahamian basketball star and actor Rick Fox is trying to speed things up. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Eating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A tiny proportion of Americans—particularly boomers—eat the majority of the nation’s beef. Can clever framing sway a younger generation? Read this story here.

Delegates agreed on a historic climate deal at COP28. But without more ambition, humanity will have to rely ever more on a contentious strategy: carbon removal. Read this story here.

Extreme conditions caused by climate change are making winter sports more risky. From Colorado to Washington, that’s also making mountain rescue missions even more perilous. Read this story here.

Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread’s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe? Read this story here.

As researchers try to make sense of “open-label” placebos—fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness—the mysterious effect is starting to show up beyond the world of medicine. Read this story here.

When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It’s another ominous sign of how plasticized the environment has become. Read this story here.

An animal welfare advocacy group claims in a letter to the SEC that Elon Musk again made statements about the health of Neuralink test subjects that may have misled investors. Read this story here.

This particle physicist, science communicator, and member of the team who uncovered the Higgs Boson wants everyone to know that art and science aren’t mutually exclusive. Read this story here.

The agreement at COP28 satisfies no-one. But it’s probably the best that countries could have hoped for. Read this story here.

Free-ranging domestic cats eat over 2,000 animal species across the globe, including hundreds at risk of extinction. It’s a problem with no easy solution. Read this story here.

An ingestible “digital pill” that measures heart rate and breathing from inside the stomach could detect the warning signs of sleep apnea, cardiac distress, and even opioid overdoses. Read this story here.

The one-time gene editing fix is meant to halt debilitating pain crises for sickle cell patients, who formerly could only be cured with a risky stem cell transplant. Read the full story here.

Methane hydrate is an ice-like substance you can set on fire. Now scientists have found that more of it may be in danger of melting—and releasing powerful greenhouse gas—than previously realized. Read this story here.

All but raised in oncology wards, Dr. Subbiah is on a mission to make cancer care work for everyone, including those usually overlooked. Read this story here.

Mounting evidence bolsters the idea that drugs like semaglutide—better known as Ozempic or Wegovy—can hamper a thirst for booze. Read this story here.

French startup Biomemory is rolling out a credit-card-sized storage device that uses DNA to encode a kilobyte of text data. Read this story here.

The dean of MIT’s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. Read this story here.

In 2021, scientists experimenting with fiber optics picked up a strange signal: the cacophony of cicadas. It could lead to a new way of monitoring insects. Read this story here.

CAR-T cell therapy harnesses the immune system to attack blood cancers. Six years after approving the first treatment, the FDA is investigating whether it can give rise to secondary cancers. Read this story here.

Pioneering a new field in cosmology, Dr. Pasterski explores diverse perspectives in physics and astronomy—and whether the universe might actually be a hologram. Read this story here.

An accomplished cardiologist and the first Black woman president of Wellesley College, Dr. Johnson's life's work is improving quality of care for women and women of color around the world. Read this story here.

There’s a devastating amount of heavy news these days. Psychology experts say you need to know your limits—and when to put down the phone.

As project scientist on NASA’s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science—and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. Read this story here.

Ahead of COP28, a scathing new UN report warns that the world is barreling toward an avoidable catastrophe. It’s a plea for world leaders to step up their ambition. Read this story here.

The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also eliminates the need for regular blood transfusions in people with beta thalassemia. Read this story here.

An inventor, molecular biologist, and diagnostic scientist, Dr. Todd cofounded SpeedDx, which serves communities worldwide. And that’s just the beginning. Read this story here.

Misinformation about skincare runs rampant on social media. The chemist behind the Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog is here to clear things up. Read this story here.

It’s still early days for a novel form of gene therapy called base editing, but this small study in people with extremely high cholesterol shows striking results. Read this story here.

The drug semaglutide is already widely used for weight loss. Now its maker is presenting new evidence that it can reduce cardiovascular illnesses and deaths. Read this story here.

As ocean temperatures climb, so do creatures’ metabolisms. If extra food isn’t available, they’ll starve.

Eli Lilly is about to release Zepbound, a new entrant in the superheated competition for blockbuster weight loss drugs. Read this story here.

All US states take pinpricks of blood from newborns to test for diseases. New Jersey stores them for decades and may allow them to be used in police investigations. Read this story here.

Images from the European Space Agency’s newest telescope show the power of instruments that will create 3D surveys of a third of the sky, covering 10 billion years of cosmic history. Read this story here.

The hidden costs of the global food system are equivalent to 10 percent of global GDP, according to new analysis from the United Nations. Read this story here.

Astronomers show how a 50-meter space rock orbiting near Earth isn’t a typical asteroid: It probably blasted off the moon millions of years ago. Read this story here.

Take a tour of a rooftop laboratory where scientists show how growing crops under solar panels can produce both food and clean energy. Read this story here.

Dangerously hot days are becoming more common. That will trigger heart attacks and strokes in people made vulnerable by age, race, and the layout of cities. Read this story here.

Cats purr when they’re happy and kittens purr so their mothers can find them. But it turns out purring may be more like a snore than a smile. Read this story here.

Genetically engineering plants to change colors when they encounter a contaminant could help scientists better understand their needs—and the environment. Read this story here.

Scientists are getting an ever-clearer picture of the undersides of deteriorating glaciers. It’s not looking good. Read this story here.

A clinical trial reveals the first evidence of how the brain restructures physically in the first month on SSRIs—and the link between neuroplasticity and depression. Read this story here.

New research from two teams shows that these fleeting blips can be faster and brighter, and come from much further away, than previously thought. Read this story here.

A Himalayan lake fed by melting ice just released a devastating flood in northern India. Thousands of other unstable lakes are getting bigger every year. Read this story here.

As if we needed another reason to quickly ditch fossil fuels: Cleaner snow melts much more slowly. Read this story here.

For the first time, researchers are testing an approach that involves replacing a mutated gene in the inner ears of children with severe hearing loss. Read this story here.

Avian influenza can wipe out entire poultry flocks. An early experiment with Crispr suggests that gene editing can protect chickens against infection. Read this story here.

The fish may be a harbinger of dramatic warming in the north—and rapidly transforming ecosystems. Read this story here.

Humans are teaming up with dogs to eliminate the blood-sucking pests, but there's no overarching strategy, just eye-watering costs. Read this story here.

The Psyche probe is heading to its namesake metal-rich asteroid. Along the way, it will demonstrate a near-infrared laser system to send high-rate data hundreds of millions of miles home. Read this story here.

The comprehensive collection of 21 studies attempts to map all the brain’s cell types, and offers hope of one day being able to trace brain diseases to their genetic roots. Read this story here.

Scientists finally opened the rock sample from the near-Earth asteroid Bennu. NASA’s OSIRIS-REx captured a treasure trove of material from the solar system’s earliest days. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Human donor kidneys are in short supply. A new experiment that tested gene-edited organ transplants in monkeys showed that pig kidneys may one day be viable substitutes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The atmosphere is rapidly warming, but the soil is also prone to heat waves. Scientists are racing to understand the consequences. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A malaria vaccine that could protect millions of children against the parasite-borne disease is expected to roll out early next year. It follows another formula that has already had moderate success. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Elon Musk’s brain-chip startup conducted years of tests at UC Davis, a public university. A WIRED investigation reveals how Neuralink and the university keep the grisly images of test subjects hidden. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mini-brains that work and grow like their full-size counterparts could offer an alternative to animal testing, and advance the quest for personalized medicine. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last month was so hot, scientists are struggling to find words for it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Foam rubber—like the filling inside your couch—produces an enormous amount of CO2. A Norwegian company called Agoprene thinks seaweed could be the solution. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Covid seems to spike twice a year—but unlike with flu season, not in a predictable pattern. That could be due to the virus, the environment, or the people it is infecting. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Trees make clouds by releasing small quantities of vapors called “sesquiterpenes.” Scientists are learning more—and it’s making climate models hazy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Police are hosting events to collect DNA samples that can help solve missing persons cases. But when people put their DNA in a commercial database, it can used for other purposes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first human to receive a genetically engineered pig heart survived two months. Surgeons are hoping this transplant will last longer. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The OSIRIS-REx capsule containing a “treasure trove” of space rocks has now arrived at Johnson Space Center, where scientists will gingerly unpack it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The OSIRIS-REx probe is carrying rock samples from the asteroid Bennu, millions of miles away. If it works, it will be only the third such retrieval in history. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Christopher Columbus was blamed for bringing syphilis to Europe. New DNA evidence suggests it was already there. Maybe both stories are true. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The American Climate Corps will employ tens of thousands to prepare the country for the pain ahead. But it'll need to get much, much bigger. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The solar corona is hotter than expected, and scientists are using European Space Agency and NASA spacecraft to figure out why. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Startup Light Bio has created a bioluminescent petunia using mushroom genes and plans to start shipping the plants next spring. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UN has released a draft of what might become a landmark agreement to protect human health and the environment. Emphasis on might. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The agency assembled a panel of experts to figure out how to handle future sightings, in case the truth is out there. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Entire neighborhoods of the Libyan city of Derna have vanished following devastating floods wrought by Storm Daniel. Such storms are rare—but climate change will supersize them. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The latest vaccines are designed to target XBB.1.5, the dominant variant throughout much of 2023—until now. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harmful algal blooms are taking over as the world warms and grows richer in carbon dioxide—and there’s no easy fix. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Following a joint “mishap investigation” by SpaceX and the FAA, the federal agency listed 63 issues that must be addressed before launches can resume at the Texas site. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transplant organs are scarce. Could growing ones with human cells in pigs alleviate the shortage? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiny houses started as a minimalist revolution. They ended up as an Instagram aesthetic. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Vibrio vulnificus pathogen thrives in hot coastal waters, and beachgoers can contract it via a small cut or scrape. It can also kill them in two days. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study shows that semaglutide reduces heart failure symptoms like fatigue and swelling by bringing down body weight. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Investigators are eying the Lahaina wildfire as yet another deadly blaze started by electrical equipment. Putting lines underground would help—at a steep cost. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Supposedly eco-friendly cups are still coated with a thin layer of plastic, which scientists have discovered can leach chemicals that harm living creatures. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year’s NASA mission proved it was possible to knock an incoming near-Earth object off course. But that creates debris—which might also be a threat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Raccoons are a main carrier of rabies in the US. A government effort distributes millions of tasty vaccines to protect both animals and people. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some residents of Yellowknife are staying behind to fight back wildfires that could soon engulf the Canadian city. Others have shared harrowing stories as they race to escape the flames. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fungal infections are rising worldwide and climate change may be to blame. Medicine isn’t ready. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While India’s spacecraft landed on the lunar surface, the Russian one collided with it. The mixed record shows that developing a lunar economy won’t be easy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gusts primed the Maui landscape to burn, then drove an out-of-control blaze. It’s a worst-case scenario that’s growing increasingly common around the world. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mexico and the western US are reeling from record-shattering rainfall. Blame high ocean temperatures—and prepare for worse to come as the planet warms. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A victory for Montanans’ right to a clean, healthy environment could set a precedent for other climate lawsuits throughout the United States. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Robotic spacecraft from both countries are aiming to touch down on the moon’s southern hemisphere, as one’s space program waxes and the other wanes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ethics watchdogs are looking out for potentially undisclosed use of generative AI in scientific writing. But there’s no foolproof way to catch it all yet. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From the Hawaii Community Foundation to the Maui Food Bank, donations to these groups aid people impacted by the recent disaster in Lahaina. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Humans figured out how to prevent huge fires in urban areas over a century ago. Why have they gotten so bad again? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chronic drinking depletes the brain’s dopamine levels. A single dose of a gene therapy reset them, and stopped the craving for alcohol. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The space agency lost touch with the beloved spacecraft following a faulty command signal. Here’s how it happened—and how engineers worked to bring it back. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wildfires were once rare across the Aloha State. But drought, invasive species, and human development have pushed Hawaii into a fiery new age. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Wastewater fuels blooms of reef-smothering algae. Better engineering and an army of funny-looking fish can come to the rescue. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nobody knows what around a fifth of your genes actually do. It’s hoped they could hold the secret to fixing developmental disorders, cancer, neurodegeneration, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An unprecedented look at dopamine in the brain reveals that psychosis drugs get developed with the wrong neurons in mind. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Covid-19 cases are slowly increasing across the US for the fourth summer in a row. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A prosthetic arm that connects directly to the nervous system gives the user fine control over the motions of individual fingers—just by thinking and trying to move. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Current treatments for depression after giving birth are either slow to work or hard to get. The FDA is considering a new tablet that relieves symptoms within days. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Snow is falling—but it doesn’t show up to replenish the river. In a drying West, researchers are racing to find out where it goes. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When humans and a neural network viewed pieces of art, they all found the same images memorable. What those images have in common offers a glimpse into what fascinates the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This summer's extraordinary heat is but a preview of what's to come: Humidity not only makes daytime highs more miserable, it extends the hotness through the night. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Is the system of currents that runs through the Atlantic about to shut down, creating climate chaos? Depends on who you ask. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extreme heat and other weather events are driving bears closer to humans’ campgrounds and hiking trails—and that’s no good for either species. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patients with hairy tongue syndrome—which can also turn tongues black, brown, yellow, or blue—often report gagging, mouth dryness, or bad breath. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A UK company cofounded by an astrophysicist combines AI with radar satellite imagery to keep track of vegetation, and eventually to make forecasts about its growth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A small study showed that feeding deer a type of ivermectin reduced the number of ticks drinking their blood. (Yes, it’s that ivermectin. No, you shouldn’t eat it.) Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Maybe it’s a commercial jingle, a TikTok song, or a new summer bop. Here’s how to trick your brain into hitting pause. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By early 2024, a tablet called Opill will be sold in pharmacies without a prescription, making it easier for uninsured and young buyers to access. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of years ago, retroviruses invaded the human genome. Today some of these viral remnants threaten the developing embryo while others fight to defend it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flight delays, cancellations, and violent turbulence are becoming increasingly common as extreme weather ramps up. Things are likely to get worse with climate change. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As glaciers retreat, methane-rich groundwater is bubbling to the surface. That may be warming the climate, accelerating the Arctic’s rapid decline. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A protein secreted by seemingly dormant cells in skin moles causes hair to grow again. That’s a big—and potentially useful—surprise. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creating a memory takes energy, and brains only have so much. A study using snails shows how they can be primed for future learning. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Plastic production is skyrocketing, pushing microplastic pollution to dangerous new levels. Now research shows even the Arctic is increasingly contaminated. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Drugs like semaglutide—better known as Ozempic or Wegovy—could be lifelong treatments for obesity, but what little data scientists have suggests that people don't stick with them for long. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The mosquito-borne disease was eliminated here long ago. Now “revenge travel,” global migration, poor public funding—and maybe climate change—could help it come back. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An early experiment in older rhesus macaques suggests that an injection of klotho improves working memory. Could it one day help people? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After decades of frustration, researchers have determined how an airborne scent molecule links to shapeshifting olfactory receptors in the nose. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The spotted-wing drosophila is a threat to fruit growers across the US and Europe. Crispr could thwart the pest’s numbers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Poor air quality doesn’t just cause lung cancer. It may also be responsible for other cancers, strokes, diabetes, and more. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Patients and clinicians generate huge amounts of data that could advance care. But turning the system into an R&D powerhouse means ripping up the rules. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early detection is crucial for treating eye disease. AI-enhanced eye scan analyses could spot warning signs quicker—and reach patients at scale. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Virtual wards provide people with remote care and monitoring, allowing patients to go home sooner and hospitals to run more efficiently. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Indian cities, afflicted by rising temperatures and poor air quality, are becoming hot spots of ozone pollution, which has proven a difficult problem to fix. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The continent’s abortion laws are a patchwork of progress and setbacks. And for many, accessing the right care at the right time is still a lottery. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rescue teams are scrambling to find the sub, which has gone missing near the wreckage of the Titanic, before those aboard run out of oxygen. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Humans rely on birds to eat insects, spread seeds, and pollinate plants—but these feathered friends can’t survive without their habitats. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Faced with the difficult task of decarbonizing, some shipping companies are taking another look at a polarizing solution—nuclear fission.   Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Here’s what to know about wildfire smoke and invisible pollutants, and how you can use your phone to decide whether it’s safe to spend time outside. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Psilocybin is on the cusp of becoming legally available in Oregon—but not as a medical treatment. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Stimulating the frontal lobes of sleeping epilepsy patients improved their recall of information—and may one day help treat Parkinson’s or Alzheimer’s. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new technique could aid Hubble Space Telescope users, but the problem will get worse for observatories on Earth. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More research is showing that moths are secret, critical pollinators, even of crops that feed humanity. Save the bees, but save the moths too. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Water surging from the broken Ukrainian dam is killing animals, destroying habitats, and unleashing pollution. The effects may be irreversible. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Canadian wildfires are spewing smoke into New York City and Washington, DC, threatening the health of millions. Welcome to the “Pyrocene.” Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The 100,000 Genomes Project has a massive database to help doctors and patients solve baffling medical cases and diagnose cancers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While weight-loss drugs are dialing down the urge to eat for many, others desperately need something that can convince their body to consume more. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists just figured out that thousands of air quality stations have been accidentally gathering invaluable DNA data on local organisms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Sign in Space encourages the public to imagine what a real message from extraterrestrials might be like—and figure out how to interpret it. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The injectable weight-loss drugs Ozempic and Wegovy are already popular. Oral forms could lead to even more demand. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hospitals are evolving at warp speed, and autonomous surgical robots are just the beginning. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Prolonged exposure to strobe lights has a psychedelic effect, which researchers are investigating as a way to heal the brain. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The number of oceangoing birds has declined 70 percent since the 1950s, but restoring their populations can bolster marine ecosystems that sequester carbon. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are “watching with bated breath” to see if ice will return to normal levels. The planetary consequences could be huge. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Allergy rates are on the rise. Blame climate change and people’s urbanized lifestyles. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Antibody treatments clear amyloid protein from patients’ brains, slowing the progression of their disease but potentially inducing deadly swelling. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The spaceflight sets the stage for the aging International Space Station's private successors, and for an influx of paying customers. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fitbits and Apple Watches weren’t designed for people with atypical health conditions. But the tech can be extremely useful—with some creativity. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Warming waters in the Pacific can trigger droughts, wildfires, and extreme rainfall around the world, potentially leading to $3 trillion in losses in the coming years. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first large-scale comparison of DNA mutation rates in 68 different vertebrate species gives insights into how quickly life can evolve. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A startup used gene editing to make mustard greens more appetizing to consumers. Next up: fruits. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chill materials to extreme temperatures, and their vibrations show properties that could one day be exploited to create memory in quantum computers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The NASA team hopes the iconic spacecraft and its twin can continue taking data beyond the solar system past their 50th birthdays. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Every year, thousands of pets develop tumors very similar to those found in people. Find drugs that work for canines, and human treatments should follow. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In 2019 and 2020, the out-of-control blazes sent clouds of smoke across the Pacific, where they brightened clouds and cooled the ocean. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The highest alerts are being unraveled globally. But with some 7 million people dead, there are hard lessons to learn from the pandemic—and a lot of work still to do. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new paper showing how water actually travels through a plastic membrane could make desalination more efficient. That’s good news for a thirsty world. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Immune cells called monocytes are triggered to help clear infection—but in some cases they never switch off, leaving patients breathless for months. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The technique may finally be emerging as a way to preserve species at risk of extinction. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a remote part of the Amazon, anthropologists and neuroscientists are learning about life and health without an “embarrassment of riches.” Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Atacama Cosmology Telescope could help resolve some cosmic discrepancies: How fast the universe is expanding and how evenly matter is distributed. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Increasingly severe heat waves will imperil the country’s development goals, slow economic growth, and heighten health risks, new research shows. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Average sea surface temperatures have soared to record highs, and stayed there. It’s a worrying signal of an ocean in crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Studying people who live well beyond the age of 100 could reveal the secret to living longer, healthier lives. But the statistics tell another story. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Coastal lands are subsiding and losing elevation—a “hidden vulnerability” that’s making rising seas all the worse. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Japanese company Ispace could be the first to safely touch down on the moon’s surface, with more spacecraft following later this year. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Renewable generation projects are set to make this future fuel widely available. And it’s much more versatile than you think. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The algae Melosira arctica is the foundation of the food chain, and its contamination could have major consequences for ecosystems and the climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The court has given itself a deadline extension until late Friday night to decide whether mifepristone should remain legal. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists believe lasting symptoms following a coronavirus infection are not a single disorder. So new clinical trials are hunting for a range of solutions. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The most comprehensive survey of how we share our microbiomes suggests a new way of thinking about diseases that aren’t usually considered contagious. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The single-dose antibiotic regimen dramatically reduces transmission of chlamydia, gonorrhea, and syphilis. But it doesn’t have the CDC’s blessing yet. Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new book explores the far-reaching impact of germs and viruses on human society. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Fifth Circuit ruling that keeps mifepristone available, but curtails access to it, is the newest front in a battle over the FDA’s power to approve medications.   Read the story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Aquifer thermal energy storage can use groundwater to heat and cool buildings—decarbonizing homes and businesses in the process. Read the article here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neoplants says its pothos has superior purification properties—but you’ll still need a lot of them to get the job done. Read the article here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research shows that the cells’ garbage-clearing function deteriorates with age—and opens the door to reversing the process. Read the article here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With new satellites and programs, the agency is tackling air quality from all angles—for the health of people and the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the first time, researchers transferred them to the wombs of female monkeys, where the embryo-like structures produced a response similar to pregnancy. Read the article here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By recreating an early state of matter called the quark-gluon plasma, scientists hope to understand the conditions that made the universe what it is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alice Pelton, founder of The Lowdown, the world’s first contraception review platform, discusses the power of equipping women with information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meat brewed in bioreactors is on the way, but it’s still too expensive. The solution? Add a whole lot of plants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An innovative research project delivers new evidence about the challenging life of astronauts on the International Space Station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Grail’s Galleri aims to screen for many more types of tumor than was previously possible. Large-scale clinical trials are underway.Read the article here Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Ice can trap pollutants and accelerate their breakdown, with troubling environmental consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research shows that seabirds’ ingestion of the pollutant scars their insides—a new disease called “plasticosis”—and may disturb their microbiomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As climate change makes storms warmer and wetter, the state’s flood control system is struggling to keep up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Governments are ignoring calls to stop fossil fuel expansion—despite there being little time left to avoid the worst effects of global warming. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An energy-saving coating needs no pigments, and it keeps the surface beneath it 30 degrees cooler. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hard electrodes inserted into the brain to treat Parkinson’s and paralysis damage the organ’s soft tissue. A new invention could change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The IPCC’s synopsis of the state of climate science warns that we’re running out of time to avoid ever-worsening disaster. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US is proposing bold action to clean thousands of “forever chemicals” out of drinking water. It’s long overdue. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers seek to develop advanced propulsion systems that can transform long-distance space exploration. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We asked experts how to craft a more intentional, peace-filled ritual to support a better night’s sleep. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Want to take control inside your dreams? Turns out it’s a skill you can practice. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new experiment pulled off the most precise measurement of an electron’s self-generated magnetic field—and the universe’s subatomic model is at stake. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Relativity Space’s attempt to reach orbit heralds the increasing use of 3D printing in the space sector. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s cellular immunity, not antibodies, that probably protects against the coronavirus’s worst effects—and scientists haven’t worked out how long it lasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avian influenza has killed millions of birds. Shots to prevent it already exist. Why isn’t the entire poultry industry using them? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists investigated a weird feature in Parker Solar Probe data—and may have discovered what drives the plasma that pervades the solar system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New modeling estimates that food production could add a degree Celsius to global warming. But it also points to powerful ways to make diets more sustainable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Faced with extreme drought, Kenya’s president approved a controversial new crop for farmers. Then the legal backlash began. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

About a dozen such consumer tests are now on the market, but the science of reading DNA for insights about longevity is still young. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Startups rush to gain a foothold in a burgeoning industry as New York and California move to legalize human composting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One million species are at risk of extinction, but a handful of charismatic creatures get all the hype. A new conservation strategy has a different focus. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research shows that if done right, urban farms and gardens can support all kinds of species—for the good of people and the environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Atomic weapons are complex, sensitive, and often pretty old. With testing banned, countries have to rely on good simulations to trust their weapons work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a factory on the outskirts of Glasgow, aerospace manufacturer Skyrora is building rockets for a space-bound taxi service for satellites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Electrical stimulation applied to the spinal cord temporarily restored arm and hand movement in two patients. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The student winners of a NASA competition designed a serpentine bot that could sidewind across lunar regolith or roll down hills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audacious plans to resurrect the long-extinct bird could be lucrative. But the moonshot raises thorny philosophical questions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The European Space Agency is exploring a unique way to dramatically cut carbon emissions by tapping sunlight closer to the source. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many are celebrating Australia’s decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement—which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Biological amino acids could have celestial or terrestrial roots. An experiment simulated their formation in deep space—but the mystery isn’t solved yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding is to bank more water underground. Send in the choppers (and a few ATVs). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When a warm band of water develops in the Pacific, drought grips the rainforest. The Amazon, devastated by deforestation and fires, is especially vulnerable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These tiny organoids with working immune systems mimic the function of the GI tract and could be used to study intestinal diseases and drugs to treat them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fakery spans “beautified” data, photoshopped images, and “paper mills.” Experts and institutions are employing tools to spot deceptive research and mitigate its reach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Digitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

One year later, researchers are still marveling at the power of the Hunga Tonga explosion—and wondering how to monitor hundreds of other undersea volcanoes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change is straining the world’s two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew’s existential crisis? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models or "organs on chips" instead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

ClientEarth helps shape new laws and enforce old ones to protect the planet and its most vulnerable inhabitants. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study shows that as temperatures drop, nasal cells release fewer of the tiny protectors that bind and neutralize invading germs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flu meds and prescription drugs have been in short supply all winter—but the problem goes back over a decade. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last year was one of the warmest measured, say NASA and NOAA. It would have been even more sweltering if not for La Niña, which will soon fade away. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Space agencies and companies aim to send people to the Red Planet. But settling there would be hell on—well, you know what we mean. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some environmentalists warn the planet can’t handle so many people, but we may need to rethink our approach to rising populations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

2022 was a breakthrough year for xenotransplantation, a procedure that could be a lifeline for patients in desperate need of a donor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Holiday feasts tend to be salt-heavy—but early animal experiments are finding that overindulging in the condiment could take an emotional toll. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instead of cutting out chunks of the genome to disable malfunctioning genes, base editing makes a smaller, more precise swap. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The epidemic has largely subsided, but largely because queer men seem to have learned more from AIDS and Covid-19 than the authorities did. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Europe’s energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry’s future hangs in the balance. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Vast swathes of the country have been vindictively laced with explosives, threatening the civilian population both physically and mentally. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Whale-sized shonisaurs dominated the ocean 230 million years ago. A fossil cluster offers a fascinating glimpse at how they lived—based on where they died. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Growing crops to make plastic could theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels and even pull carbon out of the atmosphere, but at an enormous environmental cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The answer explains why electric cars are everywhere, but electric aircraft are still a novelty. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big Data, drones, diagnostics—the United Nations and other groups hope to innovate the world out of a maternal and reproductive health crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

During the coronavirus lockdowns, emissions of the potent greenhouse gas somehow soared. The culprit wasn't humans—but the Earth itself. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Internet-connected thermometers can quickly show how influenza is spreading—so measures to control the disease can be targeted more effectively. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

US nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition—but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A briefcase-sized satellite will ping lasers at the lunar South Pole to locate ice and map it for future human explorers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Physicists study starlight to find whether the fine structure constant, whose value makes our universe possible, really is the same everywhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fentanyl-related substances have a bad reputation, but they could also save lives. In the US, a legislative battle to expedite research is heating up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How did a lunch last underwater for 10 months? The answer relates to how carbon moves in the deep sea, and has implications for fighting climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Audiology screening can be inaccessible for kids in low-resource areas. By utilizing off-the-shelf products, these scientists are trying to change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Flexible e-skins could be used to measure wearers’ blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen levels in real time, assisting with diagnoses and health care. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers agree to pony up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Medtech firm Earli is working on a way to make tumors announce themselves as they appear—and even provide directions to where they are in the body. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospitable conditions on Earth and allow explorers to settle on the Red Planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fuel can be produced by adding bacteria to spent drill holes—meaning there are thousands of potential hydrogen sources worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By firing pulses quintillionths of a second long, physicists study the fleeting motion of an electron leaving two bonded atoms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fossil fuels are rapidly heating the planet, but their aerosols also help cool it. Just how much, though, is a major uncertainty in climate science. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The moniker, which honors a former agency administrator accused of enforcing anti-LGBTQ policies, has long been controversial. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any smartphone in any car can pick up a span’s unique vibrations. Tracking how that changes over time reveals hidden structural problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The sprawling mass of suburbia has been a disaster for the environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in city living. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Despite efforts to reduce emissions, the 2022 FIFA tournament is highly carbon-intensive. And its road to net-zero relies on questionable carbon credits. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 30 years of talk about forcing wealthy polluters to compensate those bearing the brunt of climate damage, the COP27 conference seems poised to act. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people haven’t been exposed to common respiratory viruses following the pandemic, meaning they might be more vulnerable to getting ill this year. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a small study, researchers modified patients’ immune cells to target their particular cancer—but it only worked for a third of volunteers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It doesn’t take stampeding or unruly behavior to result in massive tragedies like the one in Itaewon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have already begun to observe the ecological effects of acidifying oceans on sea life. The changes ahead may be more drastic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Lubomila Jordanova explains how her carbon-reporting firm—Plan A—uses relentless data analysis to guarantee businesses aren’t greenwashing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change is disrupting delicate arctic habitats, which could unearth frozen viruses and transport them elsewhere. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

How shade is cast reveals details of the rugged lunar landscape, allowing NASA to create 3D models for astronauts and rovers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A comprehensive mathematical framework treats these crinkles as elegant solutions to geometric problems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keeping rodents off Santa Cruz Island is an exhausting task. But now, conservationists are getting an assist from an AI-powered surveillance system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the future, remote-controlled quadcopters might mean that researchers won’t have to crawl inside volcanoes to collect carbon dioxide anymore. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The bacteria, which contaminate poultry meat, sicken 1.35 million Americans every year. But there’s very little the federal government can do to stop it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

East European governments are starting to distribute the tablets as a precaution, but there are limits to the protection they offer, and who might need them. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study finds no correlation between research and development spending and outlandish drug prices. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists integrated tiny cell clusters called organoids with the animals’ own tissue, a step toward developing sophisticated mini-models of the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are investigating why large animals like the mule deer of Wyoming go where they go—and how humans can get out of their way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sure, my telepresence robot had some issues—but for students like me who can’t make it to campus because of disability or illness, these tools open new doors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These pollinators can help urban gardens grow. That will be critical for cooling cities as the planet warms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Pathogens in soil are a danger to firefighters, but smoke may transport spores that cause valley fever and other infections into cities too. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study shows that cancer patients in precarious living situations are twice as likely to die from their illness, underscoring the harms of unstable housing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new and contentious five-year limit for getting rid of dead satellites could slow the growing orbital litter problem—if people actually abide by it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An experiment tests whether the gene-editing technology can stop the virus from replicating, which would ultimately wipe out the infection. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The ‘Er’ grouping could help doctors identify and treat some rare cases of blood incompatibility, including between pregnant mothers and fetuses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Allen Institute’s release includes recordings from a whopping 300,000 mouse neurons. Now the challenge is figuring out what to do with all that data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With human therapists in short supply, AI chatbots are trying to plug the gap—but it’s not clear how well they work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astronomers mourn the end of an infrared observatory that flew aboard a jumbo jet. It was expensive, but it saw what Earth-based telescopes can’t. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Illumina just announced a machine that can crack genomes twice as fast as its current version—and drive the cost down to $200 a pop. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Desertification can wear down ancient ruins or hide them under dunes—leaving researchers scrambling to keep track of where they’re buried. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the Supreme Court considers the fate of American wetlands, Annie Proulx’s Fen, Bog, and Swamp offers an elegiac love letter to overlooked ecosystems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Worries about polio, monkeypox, and Covid-19 are rising. Here’s how to gather your health information, even if you’ve lost the paper records. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The technique had largely been limited to editing patients’ cells in the lab. New research shows promise for treating diseases more directly. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meticulous turf is environmentally terrible. Yet grass does have one charm: It “sweats,” helping cool the local area. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A global fungal pandemic wiped out amphibians, destroyed biodiversity, and ultimately increased human illness. Now a second similar pathogen is on the way. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Recent studies have revealed flaws in the heat index. With rising temperatures and humidity, maybe it’s time for a more holistic approach. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Neurons get a lot of attention—but researchers think this star-shaped brain cell type could hold the key to treating some disorders. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The line to see Queen Elizabeth II lying in state is snaking across central London. Could it have been done better? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A software update can help turbines become less disruptive to their neighbors and distribute the wind more efficiently. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Storing more water to deal with climate change seems like a no-brainer, but such reservoirs are complex undertakings with environmental issues of their own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The influential astronomer led the hunt for extraterrestrial signals and helped make the field of astrobiology what it is today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The jacket can raise and lower its own hood—without chips or batteries—and might one day help disabled wearers move. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many people report that their aches and pains intensify when they’re trying to sleep, but new research into the circadian clock helps explain this mystery. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Daniel Holz studies the universe’s ultimate catastrophes. And he knows a thing or two about existential threats on Earth, since he helps set the Doomsday Clock. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers are working on an injectable that could get dormant follicles growing again. Trials on mice show promise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Meltwater from the island’s ice sheet is loaded with the right kind of sand for concrete production—which further warms the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The country is exploring cloud seeding, GM crops, and a multibillion-dollar water-transfer system to address its worst water shortages on record. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Movable metal type is often traced back to Gutenberg’s workshop, but its history is far older in Asia. Researchers are using atomic-scale tools to rewrite the narrative. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new paper argues that excitement has veered into misinformation—and scientists should be the ones to set things straight. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Farmers have to apply heaps of emissions-heavy fertilizer to provide crops with enough nitrogen. Scientists are looking to legumes for help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In some of the world’s most inaccessible places, tiny satellites are watching—and listening—for signs of destruction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Standardized time is broadcast by satellite networks around the world, but their signals are vulnerable to interference—so the UK is building a more resilient system. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two Spanish towns have built a network of towers that douse surrounding trees with recycled water—stopping fire in its tracks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In much of the US, donors aren’t obliged to disclose potentially inheritable health conditions. A proposed law could change that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As students return to school, many will find restricted campus access to abortion services and information—and perhaps reproductive care in general. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Parched ground is less likely to absorb water and increases the risk of dangerous flash floods. But there are ways to mitigate these conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Gases trapped in lunar meteorites hint that the moon was formed out of material displaced from Earth after a planetary collision. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Treatment options for lasting Covid symptoms are limited, but initial studies suggest hyperbaric oxygen could help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change is making fire season worse. Now astronomers are feeling the heat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hi-res imaging can help determine cause of death in very young babies—giving parents answers without the distress of an invasive autopsy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers have found a new way to keep records of when a cell’s genes turn on and off—by harnessing systems that bacteria already use for self-defense. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are driving around in a specialized observatory to better understand how urban heat varies not only block to block, but door to door. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Individual choices and habits help the climate. Understanding how people think can make it happen. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The underground excavation industry is exploring mini robots, plasma torches, and superheated gas to replace the massive boring machines now in use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The zoonotic disease is now spreading from person to person. But if it finds a home in new wildlife species, it could settle in to become a permanent risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new system for keeping body tissues functional after death could help make more organs available for transplant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In a new experiment, researchers looked for tiny flickers in the fundamental constants of nature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Space fans around the world can help analyze data collected by the Mars Climate Sounder. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This summer’s heat wave knocked roads, railways, and runways out of action. But existing solutions could help shore up critical infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Getting a scan usually means a visit to a doctor and some giant equipment. What if that gear was wearable? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Heavenly bodies are always in motion: Pushing back the asteroid probe’s blastoff date could require a new trajectory, longer travel time, and much more power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The state plans to roll out “biosimilars” that mimic brand-name versions at a dramatically reduced price. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The strategy prioritizes inoculating an infected person’s closest contacts, but it can’t succeed without good contact tracing and enough vaccines. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change is reducing output and raising safety concerns at nuclear facilities from France to the US. But experts say adapting is possible—and necessary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change has primed the landscape to burn. But human migration has made Europe’s wildfires increasingly catastrophic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After 11 people were killed and eight hospitalized by a glacier in early July, Italian scientists are asking how future tragedies can be avoided. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scores of bills in US states aim to block medical treatments for trans youth. But research shows that these bans could have dire consequences. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

7/26 New data shows that several types of the shelled reptiles can slow—and even stop—aging if the environmental conditions are right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The loss of sea ice is exposing darker waters, which absorb more of the sun’s energy. It’s a devastating feedback loop with major consequences for the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Higher nighttime temperatures don’t just make it harder to drift off, they can disrupt your sleep cycles and leave you with low-quality rest. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As the world converts to electric vehicles and renewable energy, molecular tweaks to aluminum could improve its conductivity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Air conditioning saves lives. But as the planet warms, more AC use stresses the grid and drives up emissions, accelerating climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Sea cucumbers are squishy and soft. They also employ lethal strategies to protect themselves. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The deposits discovered reportedly contain enough resources to meet global demand for 1,000 years—surpassing even China’s reserves. But experts are skeptical. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A recent study suggests that gains during the summer breeding season are making up for losses during migration. But the insects’ fate is far from assured. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Under the Constitution, federal laws overrule state ones. But challenges to medication abortion will test the agency’s ability to make nationwide regulations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Powering plant growth with solar panels instead of photosynthesis could be a more efficient way of using the sun’s energy for food. But it’s not all good news. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are getting closer to understanding the neurology behind the memory problems and cognitive fuzziness that an infection can trigger. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists show how microbes living in a salty spring near the North Pole might resemble those that could have survived on the Red Planet—or in ocean worlds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Genomic analysis of ancient remains has shed light on the origins of the black death and offers insights into the coevolution of humans and diseases. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mars is littered with craters made by binary asteroids. These collisions are as intriguing as they are powerful. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From acoustic tweezers to holograms, engineers are taking inspiration from the field of optics—and riding the sound wave. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hesitancy, bureaucracy, inequity, and the need to explain new formulas could slow down vaccine delivery to the last unprotected group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Over 100 million women are estimated to use oral contraceptives, but studies on the pill’s mental health effects raise more questions than answers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change and natural variability are making 2022 a year of big weather events—so get ready for more heat waves, droughts, and hurricanes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mucus keeps the microbiome healthy. Now scientists have clues about how it stops good microbes from going bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers say that the rising number of space launches around the world will warm parts of the atmosphere and thin the ozone layer. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In physics, experiments to answer the big questions can take decades to run—and might not produce any findings at all. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The economics are clear: Renewables are cheap enough for the country to rapidly decarbonize. Less evident is the political will to pull it off. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The newly elected government has promised stricter emission limits and more renewables in the wake of fires, droughts, and floods. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

SpaceX must address dozens of environmental issues before it can upgrade Starbase in Boca Chica. The launch license needed for the Starship program remains pending. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Testing, vaccinating, and contact tracing can control the virus in Europe and North America—unless complacency allows it to take hold. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists are using genomics to create high-protein soybeans and peas. Their aim? To make meat and milk substitutes that can rival the real thing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Instead of deleting genes, epigenetic editing modulates their activity. A new paper tests if it’s able to undo a genetic effect of early alcohol exposure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers at the B612 Foundation’s Asteroid Institute developed a new tool for tracking space-rock trajectories—even with limited data. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A repeat encounter with Covid used to be a rarity. But now that Omicron has changed the game, expect reinfections to be the new normal. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people opt for cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It doesn’t even work yet, but nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium, the key fuel source for the most prominent experimental reactors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Early theories suggested an underwater landslide caused a catastrophic mix of magma and seawater. Recent evidence reveals an explosion unlike anything studied before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Mifepristone and misoprostol are a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy, but many people around the world still don’t know these drugs exist. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A long-term study of a marsh was meant to ask whether rising levels of CO2 could help wetlands thrive despite rising seas. The plants aren’t keeping up. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The electric vehicle revolution is gathering speed—but what happens to all those polluting cars already on the road? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have discovered “proto-peat” forming in the Arctic as the Earth naturally sequesters carbon, but it could take centuries to mature. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a negative prognosis because of its dwindling solar power. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Two new studies found genetic mutations that cause severe immune deficiencies are common in some remote populations, leaving them highly vulnerable to viruses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA’s EMIT mission will better analyze the grime from dust-spewing regions, a critically understudied factor in climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The seedlings sprouted in the regolith scooped up in the 1960s and ’70s, but astronauts won’t be harvesting lunar spuds anytime soon. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiny wobbles in Earth’s gravitational field could help detect big tremors faster, but they’re hard to tease out from the planet’s seismic noise. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers have created autonomous particles covered with patches of protein “motors.” They hope these bots will tote lifesaving drugs through bodily fluids. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The vast majority of tick-borne disease goes unrecorded, meaning life-threatening pathogens are traveling under the radar to new locations. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

International experts are using earthly policies as models to hash out regulations for orbiting spacecraft, from preventing conflict to limiting trash. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The technique uses plants as fuel and sequesters the emitted CO2, removing it from the atmosphere. But scaling up would use gobs of water and land. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change and human activity are destroying the layers of fungi, lichen, and bacteria that protect deserts from erosion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have finally found Antarctica’s missing groundwater, which will help them predict ice flows on the continent. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If everyone ate just 20 percent less beef, deforestation rates by 2050 could be half as bad. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The nation follows the UK in permitting mitochondrial donation, which aims to prevent the transmission of rare but often fatal conditions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Proposals for wind, solar, and battery storage projects are running into a logjam of paperwork and grid connection issues. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

You can tell a lot about a tree by its sway, so scientists are outfitting them with accelerometers. That could help the West better manage its water. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Young children across the world are inexplicably coming down with the liver illness, putting parents and doctors on alert. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A startup just showed that its OncoK9 test accurately sounds the alarm for aggressive and advanced cancers. The catch? These often have no cure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Graphite is made in blazing-hot furnaces powered by dirty energy. Until recently, there has been no good tally of the carbon emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

With clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The autonomous aircraft have shuttled blood to rural, mountainous areas for years. A new analysis proves they’re faster than driving. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Rooftop solar panels are gaining popularity as the UK faces higher energy prices. But lower-income people are being left behind once again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

After three attempts to run through a test of the Space Launch System, engineers spotted a leak and a faulty valve. The fixes may delay the first Artemis moon mission. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Volunteers are rushing to provide online counseling, art therapy, and stress relief for the more than 2 million Ukrainian children who have become refugees. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The area around the defunct power plant has been an unexpected rewilding success story. Now attempts to monitor progress are hampered by the war. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Brigades of volunteers are coming to the rescue of thousands of Pacific newts that perish each year as they migrate to their breeding grounds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Barriers are going up rapidly as border projects and livestock farming increase, but they impede wildlife migrations and genetically isolate threatened species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The FDA has approved daily disposables that release anti-allergy medication. Experts hope lenses could one day help treat cataracts and glaucoma. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A microsporidian pathogen is annihilating tawny crazy ants, an invasive menace of the highest order. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Big businesses set splashy climate targets but don’t always reveal their data. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to change that—to protect investors. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Changing the genetic makeup of trees could supercharge their ability to suck up carbon dioxide. But are forests of frankentrees really a good idea? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New research shows the snakes activate different sections of their rib cage, using their lungs as bellows to pull in air. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A cosmic fluke helped Hubble spy Earendel, a giant star at the edge of the known universe that could tell us more about what happened after the Big Bang. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Finding therapy and support can be confusing. Here are some tips on how to get help, from understanding insurance websites to keeping track of the bills. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

For the first time, scientists get a look at what's going on under the park's geysers. It may even help them better understand the origin of life on Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers got the machine to run nearly 13 feet per second. It ain't graceful, but this powerful technique is preparing robots for the chaos of the world. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Observatories require electricity and computing power to process data from deep space. Is there a way to make them run greener? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keep throwing noodles against the wall if you want, but this tactic ensures the pasta's texture is just right every single time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, is increasingly hammering ports, highways, and factories. It’s expected to get worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hundreds of trials have been disrupted in the medical research hub. Some patients are at risk of losing their last chance at survival. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang. They saw nothing. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Later this year, the agency will decide whether to allow four chemicals, which have been banned in Europe, to continue being used on US farms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Millions of tons of grain may not make it out of the country this year. The shortfall could spread hunger and civil unrest worldwide. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Growing organoids in dishes and xenografts in mice lets scientists re-create a living person’s tumor—and test dozens of drugs against them at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers observed chimps in Gabon applying insects to wounds—and it’s raising big questions about animal altruism and self-medication. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Satellites spot troubling signals that may portend a transformation from rainforest to savanna, with profound implications for the planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The island nation's government joins several other European countries in dropping Covid restrictions—but not everyone is sure the timing’s right. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study finds that turbines can muddle ships' navigational systems, obscuring the location of smaller boats or creating misleading images on radar screens. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Routine shots are down for everything from measles to tetanus to polio, leaving kids unprotected and raising the risk of outbreaks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Most genetic research is done on people of European descent. That’s led to misdiagnoses, inaccurate tests, and missed opportunities for new treatments. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The UN's latest IPCC report paints a dire picture for the species of Earth. But it also suggests how urban areas can help humanity face down the threat. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The electrical chatter of our working memories reflects our lack of confidence about their contents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Once nonexistent in the northwest part of the state, beavers are both benefiting from and changing a warming landscape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientist and writer Camilla Pang explains what the rationality of science showed her about making better decisions, processing feedback, and feeling like an outlier. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers ran an outdoor experiment to see if diesel exhaust and ozone would interfere with pollinators’ search for floral scents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA plans to deorbit the International Space Station in 2031 by crashing it into the ocean. But is there another way? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Keeping wounds covered can help them stay clean. But if bacteria grow beneath the bandages, things can get dangerous. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Harvard researchers used lab-grown clumps of neurons called organoids to reveal how three genes linked to autism affect the timing of brain development. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In computer simulations, researchers have discovered that a neural network can infer the amount of matter in a whole universe by studying just one galaxy. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Google-backed firm taught a reinforcement learning algorithm to control the fiery plasma inside a tokamak nuclear fusion reactor. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Alarming new research suggests warm seawater is rushing under the ice, perhaps doubling the rate of melting. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thousands of years ago, hydrothermal vents fed worms deep below the ice. Scientists have found 300-year-old sponges feeding on the worms’ fossilized remains. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some remote Pacific island nations haven't had a single case of Covid-19 for the past two years. Now they're reopening to the world, but can they handle an outbreak? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The International Astronomical Union launched a new organization tasked with limiting reflected light and radio interference from big satellite networks. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When species have babies with conspicuous fur, it can attract good attention—or bad. A new theory could explain why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The same phenomenon by which an opera singer can shatter a wineglass also underlies the very existence of subatomic particles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Some animals and plants are rapidly adapting to our warming, polluted world. How alarming that is depends on your perspective. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

More than half of the sea now logs temperatures once considered extreme, threatening countless species, livelihoods, and the air we breathe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers are exploring whether tech giants can precompute certain data when the grid is humming with solar or wind power, then stash it away for later use. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As an errant SpaceX rocket booster careens toward the moon, here are some of the ways space agencies and companies are trying to deal with huge pieces of debris. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A study found that filtration membranes formed from SCOBYs are more effective at preventing bacterial growth than commercial equivalents. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists and schoolchildren worked together to bring the tequila fish back from extinction in the wild. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These three families gave up flying to reduce their emissions. Here's how it's shaping their relationship to people and places. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As countries declare endemicity and drop restrictions, how does a battered and bruised society embrace a sudden return to normality? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

While the space agency didn't actually develop Tang, its R&D includes everything from robot gloves to vertical farming—with commercial benefits back home. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The fast-moving pathogen, which has already invaded Europe, was found in East Coast ducks. The last outbreak that tore through the US killed 50 million birds. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The marbled crayfish is a threat to the native species, but the “Berlin lobster” may also offer a sustainable food source and help stop the spread of parasites. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

These structures are a sci-fi solution to the problem of getting objects into orbit without a rocket—but you don’t want to be under one if the cable snaps. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Germany has almost finished phasing out nuclear plants, and aging infrastructure is leading neighbors down the same path. But will green energy goals suffer? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the 1960s, drillers noticed that certain fluids would firm up if they flowed too fast. Researchers have finally explained why. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The effects of the climate crisis are happening right now. From natural disasters to supply chain shortages, here's how to cope. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New, high-resolution observations of a faint, fluffy galaxy suggest that dark matter’s not as ubiquitous as scientists thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Misinformation and muddled public health messaging have failed expectant parents. Now Omicron's surge is putting both carriers and babies at risk. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Thwaites Glacier is crumbling, and fast—if it melts entirely, it could add 10 feet to sea levels. Now Antarctic scientists are racing to survey the damage. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new trend in patient-centered design focuses on making environments more comfortable and less scary. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers are exploring the health benefits of literally chilling out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Swiss forensic geneticists analyzed DNA recovered from postage stamps dating back to World War I and solved a century-old paternity puzzle. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Like every other aspect of our society, how we handle death and dying needs to change in the face of climate change. This method may be a path forward. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A mathematical model shows how a thermodynamic mechanism could have made protocells split in two. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Conservationists are teaming up with fossil experts to help the bivalves—and the state’s oyster economy—survive. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

If you're looking to the future and wondering exactly how to prepare your children for a changing world, these resources can help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The famous cartoon schemer has an ingenious plan to lure Bugs Bunny out of his hole—and it involves a giant magnet and an iron carrot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The task of 2022 will be figuring out how much action we’re willing to take and how much disease and death we’ll tolerate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists at the UK’s National Physical Laboratory are using monitoring equipment to track our impact on the planet more accurately than ever before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Soaring temperatures are rapidly thawing permafrost, leading to huge sinkholes called thermokarst. Northern fires are making the situation even worse. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Governments and companies around the world are finally acting to create a green economy and avoid climate catastrophe. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pandemic should have been a wake-up call—instead, emissions have climbed once more. Here's how the US could have seized the opportunity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Through his encyclopedic study of the electron, an obscure figure named Stefano Laporta found a handle on the subatomic world’s fearsome complexity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Even ordinary actions, like tossing a tennis ball, can be extraordinarily complex to calculate. The trick is knowing what to leave out. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The chili peppers thrived in a controlled microgravity environment. But to develop agriculture away from Earth, NASA will have to think outside the box. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Studying how and why rhythm evolved in these primates could help unravel the mysteries of human musicality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Creating bespoke cells could transform testing and help develop new treatments for diseases such as Alzheimer’s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers have created jellyfish whose nerve cells light up when they fire, offering a tantalizing view of neurology before the rise of the brain. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate migration is already underway. Here's how cities can prepare. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers have long wanted to capture how protein structures contort in response to light. But getting a clear image was impossible—until now. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Clean transport needs clean vehicles. New power developments are crucial for a mass transit revolution, and each has pros and cons. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Physicists have linked the “gravitational memory effect” to fundamental cosmic symmetries and a potential solution to the black hole information paradox. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Taupe and cream nurseries are in vogue right now. They’re beautifully beige, but some worry they might be bad for babies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA is investing in Blue Origin, Nanoracks, and Northrop Grumman as they develop competing designs for a next-generation space station. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In an economically developing country reliant on tourism, the rapidly eroding “smiling coast” shows the urgent need for action on climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

We use video analysis to compare an animated liftoff to an actual one, proving that truth is more boring than fiction. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Nations around the world made a vital climate crisis declaration to save forests within the next decade. Can they actually do it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Employer support for staff who wish to freeze their eggs has great potential—but broader support for parents still lags behind. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Acoustic waves can detect all kinds of explosions and volcanic activity, but it’s hard to place sensors at sea—unless you’ve got a bird with a backpack. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

When ice goes, lichens and mosses move in and an entirely new ecosystem starts to take shape. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A 5-minute assessment on an iPad could transform how we screen for dementia—or overwhelm the health care system with worried test-takers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At COP26 in Glasgow, negotiators can easily lose track of what day it is as they scramble to save us from climate chaos. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This is the science of why you can recline on an array of very sharp things without getting the pointy end of the stick. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An aerial survey in southern Mexico discovered a host of ceremonial sites that could date as far back as 1100 BC. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our addiction to chemical pesticides comes with a bunch of downsides. New sprays made from RNA might offer a smarter, cleaner way to wage war on pests. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Saving California's adorable (and very hungry) sea otters helps control other species, leading to the growth of more carbon-sequestering vegetation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

It’s a 32,000-gallon concrete tank with a wind tunnel grafted on top. With it, researchers can study the seas—and climate change—like never before. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A first commercial test flight shows how fuel made from plants, not petroleum, could make flying cleaner. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Astronomers with the Breakthrough Listen project scan the sky for signs of extraterrestrial life, but a promising lead turned out to be a false alarm. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study shows that two captive birds had only maternal DNA and survived early development—a first for the critically endangered species. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A series of puzzling infections has been traced to the presence of a dangerous bacterium in an aromatherapy spray. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fears of ecological disaster are real, but it's especially hard on people raising children. Here's what parents should know, and where to turn for help. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Climate change has given a tiny parasite a new advantage over the mighty beasts. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fuel contamination forced the residents of Iqaluit to rely on bottled water—and now they're having a hard time getting rid of the plastic. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A study of trees, some over 300 years old, indicate that precipitation levels are up as much as 5 inches compared to the early 1700s. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Young people already know more than you might think. Here are some ways to approach the conversation, tailored for every age group. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new model of learning centers on blasts of neural activity that act as teaching signals—approximating an algorithm called backpropagation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Many young people feel like their future is in peril. To make progress on climate change, we must move past doomsday scenarios. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The pharmaceutical giant is making its oral antiviral drug widely available for all the world. But could Covid outsmart it? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists used NASA’s Juno spacecraft to probe the massive storm, finding that it’s not as shallow as previously thought. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The toaster-sized device could help make human travel to Mars—and beyond—a reality. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A blood test of “NfL” proteins answers questions about damage severity that doctors—and families—desperately need. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tiny bits of plastic are swirling in the sky, and a new model suggests they could be subtly affecting the climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The Federal Aviation Administration is conducting a review and public hearings involving the space company's expanded site in Boca Chica, Texas. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Shooting a web from your hands requires Spidey powers. But does keeping your grip on one of them require Spidey strength? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

RTS,S proves that shots can work against parasites. But to eradicate this disease, scientists say we need more than just one tool. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the new scientific (and literal) field of agrivoltaics, researchers are showing how panels can increase yields and reduce water use on a warming planet. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The agency knows it needs to adapt to climate-driven events that will increasingly threaten coastal launch sites and other key space infrastructure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

African swine fever killed half the pigs in China. There is no vaccine and no treatment. Now it’s in the Caribbean and on the doorstep of the US. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Urban areas can be 20 degrees hotter than the surrounding country. But green spaces and reflective pavement can make city life more bearable. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deep in the mantle, a branching plume of intensely hot material appears to be the engine powering vast volcanic activity. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Jupiter’s most enigmatic moon, one of a few ocean worlds in the solar system, will be the target of upcoming missions by NASA and the European Space Agency. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The massive deployment of wind and solar will turn you, the humble homeowner, into a critical actor in the operation of the US power grid. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Their incessant belching loads the atmosphere with planet-warming methane. But it’s not so simple as just feeding them gas-busting seaweed. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Researchers developed a probe that could help farmers better understand their land by measuring the electric current from the tiny creatures in the dirt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Avid amateurs are generating a wealth of information on avian activity. But does that data reflect new trends in bird behavior, or in people’s? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A set of papers show that llama-derived antibodies protect the rodent against the virus—which bodes well for making a version for people. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A massive South Island stargazing reserve is a respite from light pollution for many species, including our own. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Just because something has the FDA’S green light doesn’t mean it’s simple to obtain—or that everyone wants it. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new study of the American West shows that climate change is driving more days that are hot, dry, and windy—the perfect conditions for deadly wildfires. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A spate of studies claim that the disease was circulating in Italy long before the pandemic—but they struggle to support the theory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A decade of work helped limit the spread of dangerous pathogens in medical settings. Overcrowding from Covid care is allowing infections to rise again. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Overfishing, habitat loss, and climate change are driving species collectively known as chondrichthyan fishes toward a global crisis. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Voice analysis of a 34-year-old recording proves that Ripper the musk duck “independently evolved” to mimic his human caretakers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Dozens of microchips scattered over the cortical surface might allow researchers to listen in on thousands of neurons at the same time. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Human behavior has changed along with the virus and public health measures to contain it. For modelers, it’s a curveball. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Using cameras aboard the Hayabusa2 spacecraft, Japanese scientists get a rare, close-up glimpse of a space rock’s structure. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Studies have been small and often not great. The best info so far says don’t use it, get vaccinated, and hang in there for the more promising meds being tested. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Cutting-edge devices used for quantum experiments have been bulky, finicky, and confined to academic labs—so far. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

From glasswing butterflies to vanishing octopuses, evolution sometimes paints with colors that aren’t there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The first all-civilian, all-private spaceflight splashed down off the coast of Florida. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The new finding underscores the complexity of marine mammals’ social life and cognition. It may also help save the snoopy cetaceans. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Deadly flooding in and around New York City dramatizes the risks to infrastructure that was wasn’t built to handle warmer, wetter climate. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Hundreds of people are displaying similar behaviors to that of YouTube star Jan Zimmermann. Do they have a disorder or something more mysterious? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The species' relentless invasion of the continent has taken a turn toward cannibalism. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Now you can blame the primate brain. And neuroscientists are eager for a deeper look. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists have attached dosimeters to the reptiles so they can serve as living “bioindicators” to gauge contamination levels near the shuttered nuclear power plant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Children and teens have been spared the worst of the pandemic, but without vaccines they’re sitting ducks as the virus rages. What risks are they facing? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In the movie’s video game world, a whole-body airbag protects Ryan Reynolds as he falls off of a building and onto a car. Would that … work? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This cephalopod is the only known animal that doesn’t exhibit age-related deterioration when recalling specific events. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The paste sticks onto wet tissue firmly by repelling blood. Surgeons hope it can save time—and lives. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Last week, Texas health care policymakers discussed taking vaccination status into account for Covid triage. It’s a larger conversation ethicists are bracing for. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The federal agency will allow people living with organ transplants, undergoing cancer treatments and taking some medications to get a third shot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A system that scans animal rehabilitation center data could provide early alerts when a disease is spreading. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

NASA is trying out sonic waves, electrostatic devices, and extra-slick coatings as ways to repel pesky space dirt. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Monoclonal antibodies have been touted for their potential to fight off infections like Covid-19. Could they be used as contraceptives, too? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Fires are supposed to reset ecosystems, paving the way for new growth. But human meddling and climate change have turned them into monsters. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

A new paper argues that the rise of artificial intelligence in agriculture could be the best—or worst—innovation for our environment. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The worst 5 percent of energy producers account for almost 75 percent of the sector’s emissions. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

An invasive insect called the woolly adelgid is eating the Northeast’s forests alive. So some researchers are calling in hungry silver flies. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Scientists used something called isotopic mapping to get a first look at how the creatures lived more than 17,000 years ago. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The landmark assessment was dire. But it shows that by slashing methane emissions, humanity can make rapid progress in fighting climate change. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

The spin seems simple if you’re just watching it on TV. But it’s a complex move that requires understanding your center of mass. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Muscle cells, 3D-printed lunar regolith, and le Blob will soon orbit 250 miles above Earth. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices