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Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As part of a...

How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World

At the world’s most renowned meteorite show, in Ensisheim in France, I noticed there were many dealers...

Cuttlefish ink may overwhelm sharks’ sense of smell

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

Donald Trump’s NIH Pick Just Launched a Controversial Scientific Journal

President Donald Trump’s nominees to lead the National Institutes of Health and the Food and Drug Administration,...

A second version of bird flu is infecting cows. What does that mean?

McKenzie Prillaman is a science and health journalist based in Washington, DC. She holds a bachelor’s...

How mantis shrimp deliver punishing blows without hurting themselves

Mantis shrimp are famous for their ultrafast, powerful punches used to dispatch prey. They can land volley...

Sleeping pills may have unexpected effects on the snoozing brain

So many of us struggle to fall asleep and stay there through the night. About a third...

The best way to cook an egg, according to science

When egg prices are hard-boiling your temper, it’s important to make sure that each egg you make...

Extinct moa ate purple trufflelike fungi, fossil bird droppings reveal

For the first time, ancient DNA from droppings left by New Zealand’s flightless moa identifies actual species...

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

A number of federal employees at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the US federal agency...

This DOGE Engineer Has Access to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

An engineer named Nikhil Rajpal is representing Elon Musk’s so-called Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) task force...

‘Dengue Boy’ Is the Weird, Fleshy Novel You Need Right Now

Evolution, ethnography, epidemics—this is the soup from which Dengue Boy, a brilliantly strange new novel by the...
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