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A year of pandemic life has made this question more important than ever.

Lampreys were thought of as models of early vertebrate evolution, but new evidence suggests otherwise.

Experts can’t agree on how to measure caloric effects on metabolism.

Unsupervised children can get in a whole lot of trouble.

The unique form factor offers a bigger bed on a smaller overall foot print.

The ultraviolet “imager” is a life-hunting machine more than two decades in the making.

Countries are still figuring out how to implement safety with aging infrastructure.

Creating an urban forest can be trickier than it seems.

Those bedtime videos are straining your joints.

We visualized some of the key trends in Google searches in the past 12 months.

A team of scientists helped eradicate the island of the animals in 2008 and the isle has slowly rebounded.

Having people on a ship is both an asset and a drawback.

In the US, private residents end up footing the bill to prevent further eyesores and pollution.

Here’s everything you need to know this week.

Get rid of that stink once and for all.

The CDC recently updated its guidance on what fully-vaccinated folks can do, but there’s still a lot we don’t know.

Though it’s not all good news.

You may not nail it exactly, but you can get close.

A mushrooming list of reasons to embrace fungi.

Physicist Chanda Prescod-Weinstein spans the whitewashed history of astronomy in her new book, ‘The Disordered Cosmos.’