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This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike

Future Impact

This Is Where Asteroid 2024 YR4 Could Strike

Jorge Garay

Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists

Sick Thoughts

Revenge of the Covid Conspiracy Theorists

Justin Ling

California’s Problem Now Isn’t Fire—It’s Rain

Weather

California’s Problem Now Isn’t Fire—It’s Rain

Eric Holthaus

How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out

Lasting Solution

How to Get PFAS Out of Drinking Water—and Keep It Out

Chris Baraniuk

Your Love Life on Ozempic

Love Bytes

Your Love Life on Ozempic

Emily Mullin

It’s Spring on Mars—and That Means Violently Explosive Geysers and Avalanches

Heating Up

It’s Spring on Mars—and That Means Violently Explosive Geysers and Avalanches

Shigeyuki Hando

NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’

deep cut

NIH Funding Cuts Appear to Draw on Heritage Foundation Report That Blasts ‘DEI Staff’

Matt Reynolds and Emily Mullin

Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria

Support Network

Life on Earth Depends on Networks of Ocean Bacteria

Veronique Greenwood

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

Feeling Flighty

Why People Act So Weirdly at Airports

Steve Taylor

The USAID Shutdown Puts Millions of African Lives at Risk

Public Health

The USAID Shutdown Puts Millions of African Lives at Risk

Taiwo Hassan

Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change

Policy

Gutting USAID Will Have a Monumental Effect on Combating Climate Change

Jake Bittle

How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World

Finders Keepers

How Morocco Became the Meteorite Hunting Capital of the World

Helen Gordon

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

science club

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

Emily Mullin and Matt Reynolds

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

Government

NOAA Employees Told to Pause Work With ‘Foreign Nationals’

Dell Cameron

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

Takeover

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

Tim Marchman and Matt Giles

This Weird, Fleshy Novel Is Exactly What You Need Right Now

Buzz Off

This Weird, Fleshy Novel Is Exactly What You Need Right Now

Matt Reynolds

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

California Wildfires

Early Detection Tools Help but They Can’t Stop Every Wildfire

Matt Reynolds

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

Bombs Away

These Robots Are Recovering Dumped Explosives From the Baltic Sea

Bryn Stole

Answer Me

Why Computer Scientists Need Magic 8 Ball-Like Oracles

Ben Brubaker

Moon or Mars? The US Might Face a Tough Choice for Future Missions

Change of Plan

Moon or Mars? The US Might Face a Tough Choice for Future Missions

Ian Whittaker