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This weather pattern could complicate your Thanksgiving travel
Environment

This weather pattern could complicate your Thanksgiving travel

By Kate Baggaley

heirloom tomatoes
Health

Here’s how scientists are tricking you into eating your veggies

By Kate Baggaley

How do you breed a 2,624-pound pumpkin?
Science

How do you breed a 2,624-pound pumpkin?

By Kate Baggaley

Vampire bats could soon swarm to the United States
Animals

Vampire bats could soon swarm to the United States

By Kate Baggaley

Your memories are less accurate than you think
Science

Your memories are less accurate than you think

By Kate Baggaley

Pythons are invading Florida. Meet the scientists fighting back.
Animals

Pythons are invading Florida. Meet the scientists fighting back.

By Kate Baggaley

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble
Animals

The world’s fastest shark is in trouble

By Kate Baggaley

The Black Death helped reveal how long humans have polluted the planet
Climate Change

The Black Death helped reveal how long humans have polluted the planet

By Kate Baggaley

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Environment

All the ways hurricanes can harm—and help—the ecosystems they hit

By Kate Baggaley

The world’s bananas are under attack
Environment

The world’s bananas are under attack

By Kate Baggaley

Three animals inspiring the armor of the future
Animals

Three animals inspiring the armor of the future

By Kate Baggaley

This spacecraft is thinner than a human hair and can capture space debris
Science

This spacecraft is thinner than a human hair and can capture space debris

By Kate Baggaley

Weather forecasts aren’t perfect, but they’re getting there
Environment

Weather forecasts aren’t perfect, but they’re getting there

By Kate Baggaley

Now climate change is coming for our sea turtles
Animals

Now climate change is coming for our sea turtles

By Kate Baggaley

Growing skin in a lab has benefits for humans and turtles alike
Animals

Growing skin in a lab has benefits for humans and turtles alike

By Kate Baggaley

Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms
Animals

Scientists are trying to treat autoimmune disease with intestinal worms

By Kate Baggaley

injured hiker
DIY

What to do if you break your leg in the middle of nowhere

By Kate Baggaley

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain
Health

Why doctors are still studying JFK’s chronic back pain

By Kate Baggaley

To save endangered whales, look to the poop
Animals

To save endangered whales, look to the poop

By Kate Baggaley

Scientists are scrutinizing city sewage to study our health
Environment

Scientists are scrutinizing city sewage to study our health

By Kate Baggaley

Commercial agriculture is preventing wildfires—and that’s not good news
Agriculture

Commercial agriculture is preventing wildfires—and that’s not good news

By Kate Baggaley

Fungal spores staining painting
Archaeology

The world’s art is under attack—by microbes

By Kate Baggaley

Where in the United States is nature most likely to kill you?
Environment

Where in the United States is nature most likely to kill you?

By Kate Baggaley

Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses
Health

Vaccines of the future could be as contagious as viruses

By Kate Baggaley

Where airplanes go to die—and be reborn
Aviation

Where airplanes go to die—and be reborn

By Kate Baggaley

Scientists are spelunking for cave gunk to fight superbugs
Health

Scientists are spelunking for cave gunk to fight superbugs

By Kate Baggaley

What to do if you get caught in an avalanche
Environment

What to do if you get caught in an avalanche

By Kate Baggaley

amtrak train
Aviation

All the ways we could make trains safer and smarter

By Kate Baggaley

These hot robots will help us find life on icy moons
Moons

These hot robots will help us find life on icy moons

By Kate Baggaley

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo
Animals

Your guide to the practical uses of hagfish slime, glowworm glue, and other animal goo

By Kate Baggaley

We need more ‘body farms’ to figure out how corpses rot
Science

We need more ‘body farms’ to figure out how corpses rot

By Kate Baggaley

What are the “natural flavors” in your food? Biotech is making the answer more complicated.
Science

What are the “natural flavors” in your food? Biotech is making the answer more complicated.

By Kate Baggaley

The embattled campaign for Canada’s national bird
Animals

The embattled campaign for Canada’s national bird

By Kate Baggaley

scanned drugs
Health

Counterfeit drugs are putting the whole world at risk

By Kate Baggaley

Drones are setting their sights on wildlife
Animals

Drones are setting their sights on wildlife

By Kate Baggaley

caterpiller
Animals

What animal has the craziest camouflage?

By Kate Baggaley

Exactly how bad is antibiotic resistance right now?
Health

Exactly how bad is antibiotic resistance right now?

By Kate Baggaley

Device reads brain activity to help locked-in people communicate
Health

Device reads brain activity to help locked-in people communicate

By Kate Baggaley

3 weird ways we can remotely control animals and bacteria
Animals

3 weird ways we can remotely control animals and bacteria

By Kate Baggaley

Why are scientists so obsessed with studying zombies?
Diseases

Why are scientists so obsessed with studying zombies?

By Kate Baggaley

Certain kinds of vaginal bacteria can actually boost HIV risk
Health

Certain kinds of vaginal bacteria can actually boost HIV risk

By Kate Baggaley

6 body parts that hid from science in plain sight
Health

6 body parts that hid from science in plain sight

By Kate Baggaley

What do we know about dinosaur eggs?
Dinosaurs

What do we know about dinosaur eggs?

By Kate Baggaley

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.
Animals

Don’t hate on deep-sea critters. They’ve got to be weird to survive.

By Kate Baggaley

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.
Science

How did music get its groove? Scientists made rhythm evolve in a lab to find out.

By Kate Baggaley

This six-story monster wave sets a new world record
Environment

This six-story monster wave sets a new world record

By Kate Baggaley

Glowworms trap dinner in fishing line made of water and urine
Animals

Glowworms trap dinner in fishing line made of water and urine

By Kate Baggaley

Mobile money helped 2 percent of households in Kenya rise out of poverty
Technology

Mobile money helped 2 percent of households in Kenya rise out of poverty

By Kate Baggaley

Bacteria resistant to a last-resort drug showed up on a US pig farm
Agriculture

Bacteria resistant to a last-resort drug showed up on a US pig farm

By Kate Baggaley

Looking for silicon-based alien life? Don’t hold your breath.
Biology

Looking for silicon-based alien life? Don’t hold your breath.

By Kate Baggaley

To find drugs and explosives, scientists take cues from dog noses
Animals

To find drugs and explosives, scientists take cues from dog noses

By Kate Baggaley

What the heck are white rainbows, and where do they come from?
Environment

What the heck are white rainbows, and where do they come from?

By Kate Baggaley

How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics
Health

How scientists are preparing for a world without antibiotics

By Kate Baggaley

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Technology

If aliens invaded, how would we talk to them?

By Kate Baggaley

What the heck are sinkholes, anyway?
Environment

What the heck are sinkholes, anyway?

By Kate Baggaley

Four things you can do to stop Donald Trump from making climate change worse
Climate Change

Four things you can do to stop Donald Trump from making climate change worse

By Kate Baggaley

This May Be The First Dinosaur Brain Ever Studied. What Can It Teach Us?
Dinosaurs

This May Be The First Dinosaur Brain Ever Studied. What Can It Teach Us?

By Kate Baggaley

How To Milk A Devil
Animals

How To Milk A Devil

By Kate Baggaley

Deep Space Travel Could Damage Astronauts’ Brains
Deep Space

Deep Space Travel Could Damage Astronauts’ Brains

By Kate Baggaley

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Mars

Can We Predict Global Dust Storms On Mars?

By Kate Baggaley

Hurricane Matthew
Science

Space Station Watches As Hurricane Matthew Closes In On Florida

By Kate Baggaley

How This Flower Dupes Flies Into Pollinating It
Animals

How This Flower Dupes Flies Into Pollinating It

By Kate Baggaley

Teens Have An Edge When Learning From Rewards
Science

Teens Have An Edge When Learning From Rewards

By Kate Baggaley

Watch A Bumblebee Tug A String To Get Lunch
Animals

Watch A Bumblebee Tug A String To Get Lunch

By Kate Baggaley