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Health

Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked to Virginia Restaurant Chain Sickens 50 People, Kills One

Hepatitis A Outbreak Linked to Virginia Restaurant Chain Sickens 50 People, Kills One

6 'Unhealthy' Foods That Are Actually Fine

6 'Unhealthy' Foods That Are Actually Fine

All the Fast Food You Love Contains Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals, Study Finds

All the Fast Food You Love Contains Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals, Study Finds

Archaeology

Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life

Amazingly Preserved Mummies in China Yield New Clues to Bronze Age Life

Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns

Archaeologists Map Nearly 500 Mesoamerican Sites and See Distinct Design Patterns

Confirmed: Vikings Reached the Americas Long Before Columbus

Confirmed: Vikings Reached the Americas Long Before Columbus

Animals

Here's One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing

Here's One of the Creepiest Things You Could Catch While Fishing

Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows

Climate Change Wiped Out the Mammoth, New DNA Study Shows

Stunning Trove of Jurassic Fossils Is Earliest Evidence of Herd Behavior in Dinosaurs

Stunning Trove of Jurassic Fossils Is Earliest Evidence of Herd Behavior in Dinosaurs

Space

SpaceX Claims to Have Fixed Its Leaky Toilet Ahead of Upcoming Launch

SpaceX Claims to Have Fixed Its Leaky Toilet Ahead of Upcoming Launch

8 Epic Photos of Asteroids Seen Up Close

The Most Promising Signal of Alien Intelligence Just Went Bust

The Most Promising Signal of Alien Intelligence Just Went Bust

Genetics

The Genetics Behind Bees' Black and Yellow Butts

The Genetics Behind Bees' Black and Yellow Butts

Adorable, Highly Inbred Land Parrots Are Somehow Genetically Thriving

Adorable, Highly Inbred Land Parrots Are Somehow Genetically Thriving

Evolution Deniers Are Finally a Minority in the U.S.

Evolution Deniers Are Finally a Minority in the U.S.

Physics

Physicists Trap Ultracold Neutrons in a Bottle to See How Long They Live

Physicists Trap Ultracold Neutrons in a Bottle to See How Long They Live

The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint

The Marathon Race Toward Fusion Power Could Be Reaching a Sprint

Scientists Found a Way to Print Full-Color Images Using Completely Transparent Ink

Scientists Found a Way to Print Full-Color Images Using Completely Transparent Ink

Conservation

After <i>Dune</i>, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again

After Dune, You’ll Never Think About Water the Same Way Again

A 'Lost' 125,000-Year-Old Mangrove Forest Is Thriving in Mexico

A 'Lost' 125,000-Year-Old Mangrove Forest Is Thriving in Mexico

The UK’s New Animal Welfare Plan Is Both Very Good and Not Nearly Enough

The UK’s New Animal Welfare Plan Is Both Very Good and Not Nearly Enough

Earth Science

We're Worried About the Wrong Volcanoes

We're Worried About the Wrong Volcanoes

Massive Tsunami From Dino-Killing Asteroid Carved ‘Megaripples’ Into the Ocean Floor

Massive Tsunami From Dino-Killing Asteroid Carved ‘Megaripples’ Into the Ocean Floor

Life Under Antarctica Is Surviving on Pulverized Rock

Life Under Antarctica Is Surviving on Pulverized Rock

Artificial Intelligence

How an Artificial Superintelligence Might Actually Destroy Humanity

How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies

How AI Could Upgrade Brain Stimulation Therapies

Artificial Human Genomes Could Help Overcome Research Privacy Concerns

Artificial Human Genomes Could Help Overcome Research Privacy Concerns

Extreme Field Work

Lava Tube 'Astronauts' Are Preparing for Mars on a Hawaiian Volcano

Lava Tube 'Astronauts' Are Preparing for Mars on a Hawaiian Volcano

Scientists Cook Hot Dogs in Lava From Iceland's Erupting Volcano

Social Hygiene

How to Survive Social Media After You've Been Dumped

How to Survive Social Media After You've Been Dumped

A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits

A Proposal for Healthier News Consumption Habits

VTubing Is More Than Just Livestreaming With Cute Anime Avatars

VTubing Is More Than Just Livestreaming With Cute Anime Avatars

Bad Ideas Week

Stop Using Dark Mode

Stop Using Dark Mode

How Transforming My Apartment Into an Indoor Farm Turned Into a Very Bad Idea

How Transforming My Apartment Into an Indoor Farm Turned Into a Very Bad Idea

The Space Shuttle Was a Beautiful—but Terrible—Idea

The Space Shuttle Was a Beautiful—but Terrible—Idea

Forever Week

How Humanity Could Last Forever

How Humanity Could Last Forever

Cryonics, Dakota the Dog, and the Hope of Forever

Cryonics, Dakota the Dog, and the Hope of Forever

The Ouroboros, From Antiquity to AI

The Ouroboros, From Antiquity to AI

Pretty Scientific

Scientists Find Over 300 'Huge' Viruses With Strange Abilities

Scientists Find Over 300 'Huge' Viruses With Strange Abilities

'Puzzling' Virus Found in Brazil Has Genetic Material Not Seen in Anything Else

'Puzzling' Virus Found in Brazil Has Genetic Material Not Seen in Anything Else

How Juno's Breathtaking Jupiter Images Are Made

How Juno's Breathtaking Jupiter Images Are Made

Architecture

MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel

MIT Confirms a Bridge Leonardo da Vinci Designed 500 Years Ago Was an Ancient Engineering Marvel

Moon Week

This Moon Machete Didn't Turn Me Into an Astronaut, But It Did Murder My Boss's Weeds

This Moon Machete Didn't Turn Me Into an Astronaut, But It Did Murder My Boss's Weeds

The Weird Ways NASA Thought Moon Dust Might Kill Apollo Astronauts

The Weird Ways NASA Thought Moon Dust Might Kill Apollo Astronauts

Breathtaking Simulation Recreates Neil Armstrong’s View of the Apollo 11 Landing

Dream Experiment

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience<em></em>

How a Periodic Table of Brains Could Revolutionize Neuroscience

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality<em></em><em></em>

A Lifelong Biodome Experiment Could Reveal How the Immune System Shapes Personality

Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

Why a Mission to a Visiting Interstellar Object Could Be Our Best Bet for Finding Aliens

Death Week

How Mold Kills

How Mold Kills

The Psychology of Faking Your Own Death

The Psychology of Faking Your Own Death

The Many Ways Lightning Can Kill You

The Many Ways Lightning Can Kill You

Memory Week

How Quantum Memory Could Change Computing<em></em>

How Quantum Memory Could Change Computing

Let's Make the World Wide Web a National Monument

Let's Make the World Wide Web a National Monument

My Grudge Against Iomega and the Click of Death<em></em>

My Grudge Against Iomega and the Click of Death

From the Lab

What Scientists Can Learn From New York City's Freakiest Residents

What Scientists Can Learn From New York City's Freakiest Residents

How a Superheroic Breed of Coral Could Help Save the Reefs

How a Superheroic Breed of Coral Could Help Save the Reefs

How Water Tanks on a Mexican Volcano Will Solve the Universe’s Mysteries<em></em><em></em>

How Water Tanks on a Mexican Volcano Will Solve the Universe’s Mysteries

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