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The chickenpox vaccine keeps kids safe from more than just itchy red spots
Diseases

The chickenpox vaccine keeps kids safe from more than just itchy red spots

Shingles is even less fun than it sounds.

Steak made from insect meat? Yum!
Climate Change

Steak made from insect meat? Yum!

One scientist’s quest to turn lab-grow insect protein into burgers and bratwursts.

Techathlon podcast: Classic messenger sounds, Apple’s fanciest Mac, and the week’s biggest tech news
Technology

Techathlon podcast: Classic messenger sounds, Apple’s fanciest Mac, and the week’s biggest tech news

Have fun and learn about tech at the same time.

How to make and print your first 3D model
Projects

How to make and print your first 3D model

Turn your ideas into reality.

Neurons
Health

The Woman Who Could Write, But Couldn’t Read

A recent stroke left one 40-year-old woman with some unusual symptoms.

How duct tape can help you survive almost anything
Life Skills

How duct tape can help you survive almost anything

These 10 sticky tricks could save your skin in a survival situation.

Here’s how much a chocolate bar made without child labor would cost
Agriculture

Here’s how much a chocolate bar made without child labor would cost

A new study lifts the wrapper on the cocoa industry.

A mother and her children outside their home in rural Nigeria
Health

Nigeria’s polio eradication campaign could help the U.S. tackle measles

The Africa nation has deftly handled misinformation and suspicion.

What is the difference between a tree and a shrub?
Environment

What is the difference between a tree and a shrub?

Choose your fighter: tree or shrub.

Watch a digitally-upgraded Black Hawk helicopter fly for the first time
Self Driving

Watch a digitally-upgraded Black Hawk helicopter fly for the first time

It’s a first step on the way to autonomous Army helicopters.

Women soccer players usually peak in their 20s—here’s why some excel into their 40s
Health

Women soccer players usually peak in their 20s—here’s why some excel into their 40s

Female athletes have certain advantages when it comes to endurance in sport.

Key gadget specs and what they really mean
Tech Hacks

Key gadget specs and what they really mean

Do you know what an IP rating is?

rhynchomys labo
Animals

Biologists discovered two new species of shrew rat, no thanks to peanut butter

These two shrew-rats from the Philippines slurp earthworms and hop like tiny kangaroos.

State parks could be 10 times more expensive to operate by 2050
Climate Change

State parks could be 10 times more expensive to operate by 2050

Attendance is rising and so are temperatures.

Robocalls aren’t dead yet, but the FCC is finally taking aim
Technology

Robocalls aren’t dead yet, but the FCC is finally taking aim

Thanks to today's vote, carriers can now opt customers into call blocking by default.

The U.S. could lose its measles elimination status
Health

The U.S. could lose its measles elimination status

At over 1,000 measles cases, 2019 is proving to be a truly terrible year for vaccine preventable diseases.

This island is many frogs’ last hope for surviving the world’s deadliest pathogen
Diseases

This island is many frogs’ last hope for surviving the world’s deadliest pathogen

New Guinea is the last place the deadly chytrid fungus hasn't reached.

Koalas use their noses to find friends and avoid enemies
Animals

Koalas use their noses to find friends and avoid enemies

The marsupials employ their large snouts for everything from sniffing out toxins to saying hello.

How to manipulate your memories to recall vacations more fondly
Life Skills

How to manipulate your memories to recall vacations more fondly

Don't let that terrible flight home outweigh all the fun stuff you did.

moon
Moons

The Moon keeps flashing us and we have no idea why

But some answers might finally be on the way.