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States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back

Pollution

States Are Banning Forever Chemicals. Industry Is Fighting Back

Molly Taft

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

Math

Scientists Are Mapping the Boundaries of What Is Knowable and Unknowable

Charlie Wood

Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Pollen Bomb

Welcome to the Worst Allergy Season Ever

Umair Irfan

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

flight-proven

SpaceX Took a Big Step Toward Reusing Starship’s Super Heavy Booster

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot

Dot Physics

Torpedo Bats and the Physics of the Sweet Spot

Rhett Allain

This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics

Cleaning Up

This Startup Says It Can Clean Your Blood of Microplastics

Matt Reynolds

In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls

Conservation

In Search of the Last Wild Axolotls

Anna Lagos

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Public Health

Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson’s Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH

Dell Cameron and Emily Mullin

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Singularity

Yuval Noah Harari: ‘How Do We Share the Planet With This New Superintelligence?’

Michiaki Matsushima

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

Powerful Memory

Why Adding a Full Hard Drive Can Make a Computer More Powerful

Ben Brubaker

US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court

Ignition

US Cities Seeking to Ban Natural Gas in New Buildings Just Got a Big Win in Court

Akielly Hu

Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility

Health

Sperm Stem Cells Were Used for the First Time in an Attempt to Restore Fertility

Emily Mullin

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

Pop Stars

Hikaru Utada Would Rather Play CERN Than Coachella

Tomonari Cotani

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

Math

How a Cup of Tea Laid the Foundations for Modern Statistical Analysis

Adam Kucharski

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Rare Earth

Beneath Greenland’s Ice Lies a Climate Solution—and a New Geopolitical Battleground

Matt Simon

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

To the Moon

It’s Looking More Likely NASA Will Fly the Artemis II Mission

Stephen Clark, Ars Technica

Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time

Space

Scientists Observe Carbon Dioxide on Planets Outside the Solar System for the First Time

Javier Carbajal

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe

Chapter11andMe

How to Delete Your Data From 23andMe

Emily Mullin and Lily Hay Newman

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

Education

The Chaos of NIH Cuts Has Left Early-Career Scientists Scrambling

Maggie Chen

Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space

Space

Scientists Scan Mysterious Planet as It Drifts Through Space

Shigeyuki Hando