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A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient

You’re Kidneying Me

A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient

Emily Mullin

Scientists Have Found the Most Convincing Evidence Yet of a Dark Matter Particle

In The Dark

Scientists Have Found the Most Convincing Evidence Yet of a Dark Matter Particle

Jorge Garay

Is It Even Possible to Understand Quantum Mechanics?

Dot Physics

Is It Even Possible to Understand Quantum Mechanics?

Rhett Allain

Smart Toilets Are Already Using AI to Analyze Your Poop

Shit Show

Smart Toilets Are Already Using AI to Analyze Your Poop

Gabriela Galvin

We’ve Got a ‘Supersized’ El Niño on Our Hands

El Oh No

We’ve Got a ‘Supersized’ El Niño on Our Hands

Molly Taft

Why Your Products Come With a Cancer Warning

Warning Signs

Why Your Products Come With a Cancer Warning

Boutayna Chokrane

The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026

Bling Bling

The Diamond Moon and Other Astronomical Events to See in September 2026

Jorge Garay

Great Replacement

Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex

Kate Knibbs

From Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American Summer

Meal Deal

From Salmonella Eggs to Diarrhea Lettuce, Why This Has Been a Sick Hot American Summer

Kate Taylor and Emily Mullin

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

Itsy Bitsy Boom

Scientists Create the Littlest Big Bang to Study the Universe's Origins

Jorge Garay

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Has a Hidden Technological Leap

Spectacular Views

NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope Has a Hidden Technological Leap

Meghan Bartels

Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment

Far Out

Psilocybin Might Make Your Brain Live in the Moment

Jorge Garay

There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccines

Vaccine Vaccine Vaccine

There Are So Many Conspiracy Theories About Dolly Parton and Vaccines

David Gilbert

Livestream Replay: The Great Data Center Backlash

Livestream AMA

Livestream Replay: The Great Data Center Backlash

Tim Marchman, Maxwell Zeff, Molly Taft, and Hugo Lowell

How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

Eyes on the Sky

How to See the Partial Lunar Eclipse and Blood Moon on August 27

Jorge Garay

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Disasters

How Rising Temperatures Likely Contributed to Nepal’s Deadly Flood

Molly Taft

A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread

Superbugs

A Mutation Is Making It Easier for Drug-Resistant Malaria to Spread

Ritsuko Kawai

The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Year

Public Health

The US Just Recorded Its First 2 Measles Deaths This Year

Emily Mullin

Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

Unmaking History

Border Wall Construction Threatens 6,000 Years of History on Private Lands

Gabrielle Saulsbery

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

Fired Up

Data Centers Are Driving an Alarming Gas Power Expansion in the US

Molly Taft