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Scientists Want You—Yes, *You*—to Help Them Track Cicada Orgies

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Do Birds Know What They Look Like?

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A Different Theory of COVID-19’s Origin

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Why Physicists Are Losing Their Minds Over a Strange New Discovery

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Why Major Biden Keeps Biting

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This Year’s Cicadas Will Be Loud and Horny

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The World Is Drowning in Plastic Waste. Microwaves Could Help.

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You’re Breathing Wrong. Here’s Why.

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What if We Just Took Carbon Emissions and Buried Them? Forever?

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COVID Skeptics Don’t Just Need More Critical Thinking

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How Gigantic Batteries Could Save the World

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Why That Sheep With the Overgrown Wool Is “a Freak of Our Making”

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Transphobes Love Talking About “the Science.” Don’t Argue With Them About It.

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March 03, 2021 11:00 AM

Could You Get the Vaccine in Your Butt?

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Texans Caught in the Blackout Are Rescuing Thousands of Sea Turtles From the Cold

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What Good Were Dogs in the Ice Age?

Riley Black

Feb 17, 2021 11:11 AM

Southern Living Retracted an Essay After It Drew the Ire of Meteorologists

Tiffany Means

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How the Gas Industry Tricked Americans Into Loving a Dangerous Appliance

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The Scientists Who Became Allergic to Their Own Work

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