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Can Disgusting Images Motivate Good Public Health Behavior?

Gross Out

Can Disgusting Images Motivate Good Public Health Behavior?

Max G. Levy

Rising Food Prices Will Make Obesity Rates Worse, Not Better

Public Health

Rising Food Prices Will Make Obesity Rates Worse, Not Better

Chris Baraniuk

How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Pew Pew Pew

How Ants Inspired a New Way to Measure Snow With Space Lasers

Matt Simon

How to Fix the US Baby Formula Shortage

Policy

How to Fix the US Baby Formula Shortage

Sabrina Weiss

This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

Off Menu

This Startup Wants You to Eat Ground-Up Chicken Bones

Matt Reynolds

A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

Paper Planes

A Father-Son Team Solves a Geometry Problem With Infinite Folds

Rachel Crowell

‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat

Out to Dry

‘Flash Droughts’ Are the Midwest’s Next Big Climate Threat

Diana Kruzman

How to Make a Microphone … From a Face Mask

Dot Physics

How to Make a Microphone … From a Face Mask

Rhett Allain

Why Was the Tonga Eruption So Massive? Scientists Have New Clues

Deep Dive

Why Was the Tonga Eruption So Massive? Scientists Have New Clues

Gregory Barber

The Story of Abortion Pills and How They Work

Reproductive Rights

The Story of Abortion Pills and How They Work

Chris Baraniuk

Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station

Cool Physics

Researchers Made Ultracold Quantum Bubbles on the Space Station

Ramin Skibba

The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread

Public Health

The Mystery of Monkeypox’s Global Spread

David Cox

Undersea Cables Are Carrying Scientific Secrets

Rumblings

Undersea Cables Are Carrying Scientific Secrets

Matt Simon

Patients May Not Receive Miscarriage Care in a Post-Roe America

Public Health

Patients May Not Receive Miscarriage Care in a Post-Roe America

Grace Browne

The Wetlands Are Drowning

Water World

The Wetlands Are Drowning

Gregory Barber

A Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears to Violate a Law of Physics

Superoscillation

A Puzzling Quantum Scenario Appears to Violate a Law of Physics

Katie McCormick

What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests

Humongous Fungus

What the World’s Largest Organism Reveals About Fires and Forests

Colin Hogan

How to Solve the Problem of Plastic Packaging

Clean Up

How to Solve the Problem of Plastic Packaging

Alex Whiting

Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis

Lights Out

Nuclear Fusion Is Already Facing a Fuel Crisis

Amit Katwala

The Online Spider Market Is Massive—and Crawling With Issues

World Wide Web

The Online Spider Market Is Massive—and Crawling With Issues

Eric Niiler