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Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise

White Christmas

Eating Too Much Salt Could Cause Stress Levels to Rise

Sabrina Weiss

How to Use Physics to Tell If That Steph Curry Video Is Real

Dot Physics

How to Use Physics to Tell If That Steph Curry Video Is Real

Rhett Allain

Wine Is Getting Pricier Thanks to a Logistical Nightmare

Grapes of Wrath

Wine Is Getting Pricier Thanks to a Logistical Nightmare

Matt Simon

A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing

Spell Check

A More Elegant Form of Gene Editing Progresses to Human Testing

Emily Mullin

The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox

Year in Review

The Bittersweet Defeat of Mpox

Gideon Lichfield and Maryn McKenna

Here Comes a Bomb Cyclone to Ruin Christmas

It's Cold Outside

Here Comes a Bomb Cyclone to Ruin Christmas

Amanda Hoover

Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw

Lights Off

Vertical Farming Has Found Its Fatal Flaw

Matt Reynolds

The Secret Life of Plant Killers

Hacker News

The Secret Life of Plant Killers

Sonya Bennett-Brandt

Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield

Psychological Warfare

Russia Has Turned Eastern Ukraine Into a Giant Minefield

Rich Wordsworth

The Crispr Baby Scientist Is Back. Here’s What He’s Doing Next

Bioethics

The Crispr Baby Scientist Is Back. Here’s What He’s Doing Next

Emily Mullin

Spaceflight Companies Promised to Do Science—So How’s It Going?

Up in the Air

Spaceflight Companies Promised to Do Science—So How’s It Going?

Ramin Skibba

The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb

David and Goliath

The Quest to Defuse Guyana’s Carbon Bomb

Antonia Juhasz

The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard

Sea-Rex

The Mystery of Nevada’s Ancient Reptilian Boneyard

Max G. Levy

The UK Is Enduring an Onslaught of Scarlet Fever. Is the US Next?

Public Health

The UK Is Enduring an Onslaught of Scarlet Fever. Is the US Next?

Maryn McKenna

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

Unitarity

Physicists Rewrite a Quantum Rule That Clashes With Our Universe

Charlie Wood

How to Use Google Health Connect

Quantified Self

How to Use Google Health Connect

David Nield

The ‘30x30’ Conservation Goal Divides and Inspires at COP15

Biodiversity

The ‘30x30’ Conservation Goal Divides and Inspires at COP15

Phoebe Weston and Patrick Greenfield

How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet?

Dot Physics

How Far Can You Fly a Battery-Powered Jumbo Jet?

Rhett Allain

A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas

Under Water

A New NASA Satellite Will Map Earth’s Rising Seas

Ramin Skibba

Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?

Material World

Bio-Based Plastics Aim to Capture Carbon. But at What Cost?

Matt Simon