Science Magazine Podcast
Weekly podcasts from Science Magazine, the world's leading journal of original scientific research, global news, and commentary.
Why peanut allergy is so common and hot forests as test beds for climate change
Farming maize in ice age Michigan, predicting the future climate of cities, and our host takes a quiz on the sounds of science
Tickling in review, spores in the stratosphere, and longevity research
Strange metals and our own personal ‘oxidation fields’
A horse science roundup and using dubious brain scans as evidence of crimes
Analyzing music from ancient Greece and Rome, and the 100 days that shook science
Tales from an Italian crypt, and the science behind ‘dad bods’
A caterpillar that haunts spiderwebs, solving the last riddles of a famed friar, and a new book series
Linking cat domestication to ancient cult sacrifices, and watching aurorae wander
The metabolic consequences of skipping sleep, and cuts and layoffs slam NIH
Talking about engineering the climate, and treating severe nausea and vomiting during pregnancy
Studying urban wildfires, and the challenges of creating tiny AI robots
Why seals don’t drown, and tracking bird poop as it enters the sea
Why sign language could be crucial for kids with cochlear implants, studying the illusion of pain, and recent political developments at NIH
Intrusive thoughts during pregnancy, paternity detectives, and updates from the Trump Tracker
Keeping transgenic corn sustainable, and sending shrunken heads home
Shrinking AI for use in farms and clinics, ethical dilemmas for USAID researchers, and how to evolve evolvability
Training AI to read animal facial expressions, NIH funding takes a big hit, and why we shouldn’t put cameras in robot pants
How the mantis shrimp builds its powerful club, and mysteries of middle Earth
Why it pays to scratch that itch, and science at the start of the second Trump administration
Unlocking green hydrogen, and oxygen deprivation as medicine
Rising infections from a dusty devil, and nailing down when our ancestors became meat eaters
Bats surf storm fronts, and public perception of preprints
On the trail with a truffle-hunting dog, and why we should save elderly plants and animals
Top online stories of the year, and revisiting digging donkeys and baby minds
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and psychedelic drugs, climate, and fusion technology updates
Making Latin American science visible, and advances in cooling tech
Leaf-based computer chips, and evidence that two early human ancestors coexisted
Testing whales’ hearing, and mapping clusters of extreme longevity
Resurrecting a ‘flipping ship,’ and solving the ‘bone paradox’ in ancient remains
Watching continents slowly break apart, and turbo charging robotic sniffers
The challenges of studying misinformation, and what Wikipedia can tell us about human curiosity
Paleorobotics, revisiting the landscape of fear, and a book on the future of imagination
How to deal with backsliding democracies, and balancing life as a scientist and athlete
Graphene’s journey from hype to prime time, and harvesting lithium from briny water
Scientific evidence that cats are liquids, and when ants started their fungus farms
Burying trees to lock up carbon, notorious ‘Alzheimer’s gene’ fuels hope, and a book on virtual twins
Looking for life on an icy moon, and feeling like a rat
Hail finally gets its scientific due, and busting up tumors with ultrasound
Linking long lives with smart brains, and India’s science education is leaning into its history and traditions—but at what cost?
A fungus-driven robot, counting snow crabs, and a book on climate capitalism
Saving wildlife with AI, and randomized trials go remote
The origins of the dino-killing asteroid, and remapping the scientific enterprise
The humidity vs. heat debate, and studying the lifetime impacts of famine
Iron-toothed dragons, and improving electron microscopy
Targeting dirty air, pollution from dead satellites, and a book on embracing robots
New treatments for deadly snake bites, and a fusion company that wants to get in the medical isotopes game
How rat poison endangers wildlife, and using sound to track animal populations
What’s new in the world of synthetic blood, and how a bacterium evolves into a killer
Targeting crop pests with RNA, the legacy of temporary streams, and the future of money
The hunt for habitable exoplanets, and how a warming world could intensify urban air pollution
How dogs’ health reflects our own, and what ancient DNA can reveal about human sacrifice
Putting mysterious cellular structures to use, and when brown fat started to warm us up
Restoring sight to blind kids, making babies without a womb, and challenging the benefits of clinical trials
Stepping on snakes for science, and crows that count out loud
How the immune system can cause psychosis, and tool use in otters
A very volcanic moon, and better protections for human study subjects
Improving earthquake risk maps, and the world’s oldest ice
The science of loneliness, making one of organic chemistry’s oldest reactions safer, and a new book series
Ritual murders in the neolithic, why 2023 was so hot, and virus and bacteria battle in the gut
Trialing treatments for Long Covid, and a new organelle appears on the scene
When did rats come to the Americas, and was Lucy really our direct ancestor?
Teaching robots to smile, and the effects of a rare mandolin on a scientist’s career
Hope in the fight against deadly prion diseases, and side effects of organic agriculture
Why babies forget, and how fear lingers in the brain
A dive into the genetic history of India, and the role of vitamin A in skin repair
The sci-fi future of medical robots is here, and dehydrating the stratosphere to stave off climate change
What makes snakes so special, and how space science can serve all
What makes blueberries blue, and myth buster Adam Savage on science communication
A new kind of magnetism, and how smelly pollution harms pollinators
A new way for the heart and brain to ‘talk’ to each other, and Earth’s future weather written in ancient coral reefs
A hangover-fighting enzyme, the failure of a promising snakebite treatment, and how ants change lion behavior
Paper mills bribe editors to pass peer review, and detecting tumors with a blood draw
The environmental toll of war in Ukraine, and communications between mom and fetus during childbirth
The top online news from 2023, and using cough sounds to diagnose disease
The hunt for a quantum phantom, and making bitcoin legal tender
Science’s Breakthrough of the Year, and tracing poached pangolins
Farm animals show their smarts, and how honeyguide birds lead humans to hives
Basic geoengineering, and autonomous construction robots
Exascale supercomputers amp up science, finally growing dolomite in the lab, and origins of patriarchy
AI improves weather prediction, and cutting emissions from landfills
The state of Russian science, and improving implantable bioelectronics
Turning anemones into coral, and the future of psychiatric drugs
Making corn shorter, and a book on finding India’s women in science
The consequences of the world's largest dam removal, and building a quantum computer using sound waves
Mysterious objects beyond Neptune, and how wildfire pollution behaves indoors
How long can ancient DNA survive, and how much stuff do we need to escape poverty?
Visiting utopias, fighting heat death, and making mysterious ‘dark earth’
Reducing cartel violence in Mexico, and what to read and see this fall
Why cats love tuna, and powering robots with tiny explosions
Extreme ocean currents from a volcano, and why it’s taking so long to wire green energy into the U.S. grid
Reducing calculus trauma, and teaching AI to smell
The source of solar wind, hackers and salt halt research, and a book on how institutions decide gender
What killed off North American megafauna, and making languages less complicated
Why some trees find one another repulsive, and why we don’t know how much our hands weigh
Tracing the genetic history of African Americans using ancient DNA, and ethical questions at a famously weird medical museum
Researchers collaborate with a social media giant, ancient livestock, and sex and gender in South Africa
Adding thousands of languages to the AI lexicon, and the genes behind our bones
The AI special issue, adding empathy to robots, and scientists leaving Arecibo
Putting the man-hunter and woman-gatherer myth to the sword, and the electron's dipole moment gets closer to zero
Putting organs into the deep freeze, a scavenger hunt for robots, and a book on race and reproduction
A space-based telescope to hunt dark energy, and what we can learn from scaleless snakes
Why it’s tough to measure light pollution, and a mental health first aid course
Contraception for cats, and taking solvents out of chemistry
How we measure the world with our bodies, and hunting critical minerals
Talking tongues, detecting beer, and shifting perspectives on females
The earliest evidence for kissing, and engineering crops to clone themselves
Debating when death begins, and the fate of abandoned lands
Building big dream machines, and self-organizing landscapes
The value of new voices in science and journalism, and what makes something memorable
Mapping uncharted undersea volcanoes, and elephant seals dive deep to sleep
More precise radiocarbon dating, secrets of hibernating bear blood, and a new book series
Why not vaccinate chickens against avian flu, and new form of reproduction found in yellow crazy ants
How the Maya thought about the ancient ruins in their midst, and the science of Braille
New worries about Earth’s asteroid risk, and harnessing plants’ chemical factories
An active volcano on Venus, and a concerning rise in early onset colon cancer
Compassion fatigue in those who care for lab animals, and straightening out ocean conveyor belts
Battling bias in medicine, and how dolphins use vocal fry
Shrinking MRI machines, and the smell of tsetse fly love
Earth’s hidden hydrogen, and a trip to Uranus
Using sharks to study ocean oxygen, and what ancient minerals teach us about early Earth
Visiting a mummy factory, and improving the IQ of … toilets
Wolves hunting otters, and chemical weathering in a warming world
Bad stats overturn ‘medical murders,’ and linking allergies with climate change
Peering beyond the haze of alien worlds, and how failures help us make new discoveries
A controversial dam in the Amazon unites Indigenous people and scientists, and transplanting mitochondria to treat rare diseases
Year in review 2022: Best of online news, and podcast highlights
Breakthrough of the Year, and the best in science books
The state of science in Ukraine, and a conversation with Anthony Fauci
A genetic history of Europe’s Jews, and measuring magma under a supervolcano
Artificial intelligence takes on Diplomacy, and how much water do we really need?
Mammoth ivory trade may be bad for elephants, and making green electronics with fungus
Kurt Vonnegut’s contribution to science, and tunas and sharks as ecosystem indicators
Cities as biodiversity havens, and gene therapy for epilepsy
Space-based solar power gets serious, AI helps optimize chemistry, and a book on food extinction
Snakes living the high-altitude life, and sending computing power to the edges of the internet
Climate change threatens supercomputing, and collecting spider silks
Linking violence in Myanmar to fossil amber research, and waking up bacterial spores
Giving a lagoon personhood, measuring methane flaring, and a book about eating high on the hog
Can wolves form close bonds with humans, and termites degrade wood faster as the world warms
Testing planetary defenses against asteroids, and building a giant ‘water machine’
Why the fight against malaria has stalled in southern Africa, and how to look for signs of life on Mars
Using free-floating DNA to find soldiers’ remains, and how people contribute to indoor air chemistry
Chasing Arctic cyclones, brain coordination in REM sleep, and a book on seafood in the information age
Monitoring a nearby star’s midlife crisis, and the energetic cost of chewing
Cougars caught killing donkeys in Death Valley, and decoding the nose
Invasive grasses get help from fire, and a global map of ant diversity
Probing beyond our Solar System, sea pollinators, and a book on the future of nutrition
Possible fabrications in Alzheimer’s research, and bad news for life on Enceladus
The Webb Space Telescope’s first images, and why scratching sometimes makes you itchy
Running out of fuel for fusion, and addressing gender-based violence in India
Former pirates help study the seas, and waves in the atmosphere can drive global tsunamis
Using waste to fuel airplanes, nature-based climate solutions, and a book on Indigenous conservation
A look at Long Covid, and why researchers and police shouldn’t use the same DNA kits
Saving the Spix’s macaw, and protecting the energy grid
The historic Maya’s sophisticated stargazing knowledge, and whether there is a cost to natural cloning
Saying farewell to Insight, connecting the microbiome and the brain, and a book on agriculture in Africa
Seeing the Milky Way’s central black hole, and calling dolphins by their names
Fixing fat bubbles for vaccines, and preventing pain from turning chronic
Staking out the start of the Anthropocene, and why sunscreen is bad for coral
Using quantum tools to track dark matter, why rabies remains, and a book series on science and food
Protecting birds from brightly lit buildings, and controlling robots from orbit
Desert ‘skins’ drying up, and one of the oldest Maya calendars
A surprisingly weighty fundamental particle, and surveying the seas for RNA viruses
Probing Earth’s mysterious inner core, and the most complete human genome to date
Scientists become targets on social media, and battling space weather
The challenges of testing medicines during pregnancy, and when not paying attention makes sense
Monitoring wastewater for SARS-CoV-2, and looking back at the biggest questions about the pandemic
A global treaty on plastic pollution, and a dearth of Black physicists
Securing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, and the link between math literacy and life satisfaction
COVID-19’s long-term impact on the heart, and calculating the survival rate of human artifacts
Merging supermassive black holes, and communicating science in the age of social media
Building a green city in a biodiversity hot spot, and live monitoring vehicle emissions
Fecal transplants in pill form, and gut bacteria that nourish hibernating squirrels
A window into live brains, and what saliva tells babies about human relationships
Cloning for conservation, and divining dynamos on super-Earths
Setting up a permafrost observatory, and regulating transmissible vaccines
Top online stories, the state of marijuana research, and Afrofuturism
The Breakthrough of the year show, and the best of science books
Tapping fiber optic cables for science, and what really happens when oil meets water
The ethics of small COVID-19 trials, and visiting an erupting volcano
Why trees are making extra nuts this year, human genetics and viral infections, and a seminal book on racism and identity
Wildfires could threaten ozone layer, and vaccinating against tick bites
The long road to launching the James Webb Space Telescope, and genes for a longer life span
The folate debate, and rewriting the radiocarbon curve
Sleeping without a brain, tracking alien invasions, and algorithms of oppression
Soil science goes deep, and making moldable wood
The ripple effects of mass incarceration, and how much is a dog’s nose really worth?
Swarms of satellites could crowd out the stars, and the evolution of hepatitis B over 10 millennia
Whole-genome screening for newborns, and the importance of active learning for STEM
Earliest human footprints in North America, dating violins with tree rings, and the social life of DNA
Potty training cows, and sardines swimming into an ecological trap
Legions of lunar landers, and why we make robots that look like people
Pinpointing the origins of SARS-CoV-2, and making vortex beams of atoms
New insights into endometriosis, predicting RNA folding, and the surprising career of the spirometer
Building a martian analog on Earth, and moral outrage on social media
A risky clinical trial design, and attacks on machine learning
A freeze on prion research, and watching cement dry
Debating healthy obesity, delaying type 1 diabetes, and visiting bone rooms
Blood tests for Alzheimer’s disease, and what earthquakes on Mars reveal about the Red Planet’s core
Science after COVID-19, and a landslide that became a flood
Scientists’ role in the opioid crisis, 3D-printed candy proteins, and summer books
Preserving plastic art, and a gold standard for measuring extreme pressure
Does Botox combat depression, the fruit fly sex drive, and a series on race and science
Keeping ads out of dreams, and calculating the cost of climate displacement
Finding consciousness outside the brain, and using DNA to reunite families
Cicada citizen science, and expanding the genetic code
Cracking consciousness, and taking the temperature of urban heat islands
Ecstasy plus therapy for PTSD, and the effects of early childhood development programs on mothers
Cutting shipping air pollution may cause water pollution, and keeping air clean with lightning
Chernobyl’s ruins grow restless, and entangling macroscopic objects
Storing wind as gravity, and well-digging donkeys
Rebuilding Louisiana’s coast, and recycling plastic into fuel
Why muon magnetism matters, and a count of all the Tyrannosaurus rex that ever lived
Magnetar mysteries, and when humans got big brains
Fighting outbreaks with museum collections, and making mice hallucinate
Social insects as models for aging, and crew conflict on long space missions
COVID-19 treatment at 1 year, and smarter materials for smarter cities
Next-generation gravitational wave detectors, and sponges that soak up frigid oil spills
The world’s oldest pet cemetery, and how eyeless worms can see color
Measuring Earth’s surface like never before, and the world’s fastest random number generator
All your COVID-19 vaccine questions answered, and a new theory on forming rocky planets
Building Africa’s Great Green Wall, and using whale songs as seismic probess
Looking back at 20 years of human genome sequencing
Calculating the social cost of carbon, and listening to mole-rat chirps
Counting research rodents, a possible cause for irritable bowel syndrome, and spitting cobras
An elegy for Arecibo, and how our environments may change our behavior
The uncertain future of North America’s ash trees, and organizing robot swarms
Areas to watch in 2021, and the living microbes in wildfire smoke
Breakthrough of the Year, top online news, and science book highlights
Making ecology studies replicable, and a turnaround for the Tasmanian devil
How the new COVID-19 vaccines work, and restoring vision with brain implants
Keeping coronavirus from spreading in schools, why leaves fall when they do, and a book on how nature deals with crisis
Fish farming’s future, and how microbes compete for space on our face
How the human body handles extreme heat, and improvements in cooling clothes
What we can learn from a mass of black hole mergers, and ecological insights from 30 years of Arctic animal movements
Taking the politicians out of tough policy decisions; the late, great works of Charles Turner; and the science of cooking
Early approval of a COVID-19 vaccine could cause ethical problems for other vax candidates, and ‘upcycling’ plastic bags
Making sure American Indian COVID-19 cases are counted, and feeding a hungry heart
Visiting a once-watery asteroid, and how buzzing the tongue can treat tinnitus
FDA clinical trial protection failures, and an AI that can beat curling’s top players
How Neanderthals got human Y chromosomes, and the earliest human footprints in Arabia
Performing magic for animals, and why the pandemic is pushing people out of prisons
Alien hunters get a funding boost, and checking on the link between chromosome ‘caps’ and aging
Fighting Europe’s second wave of COVID-19, and making democracy work for poor people
Arctic sea ice under attack, and ancient records that can predict the future effects of climate change
Wildlife behavior during a global lockdown, and electric mud microbes
A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports
Why COVID-19 poses a special risk during pregnancy, and how hair can split steel
Fighting COVID-19 vaccine fears, tracking the pandemic’s origin, and a new technique for peering under paint
How Hiroshima survivors helped form radiation safety rules, and a path to stop plastic pollution
Reopening schools during the COVID-19 pandemic, and taking the heat out of crude oil separation
A fast moving megatrial for coronavirus treatments, and transferring the benefits of exercise by transferring blood
An oasis of biodiversity a Mexican desert, and making sound from heat
Stopping the spread of COVID-19, and arctic adaptations in sled dogs
Coronavirus spreads financial turmoil to universities, and a drone that fights mosquito-borne illnesses
The facts on COVID-19 contact tracing apps, and benefits of returning sea otters to the wild
Why men may have more severe COVID-19 symptoms, and using bacteria to track contaminated food
A rare condition associated with coronavirus in children, and tracing glaciers by looking at the ocean floor
How scientists are thinking about reopening labs, and the global threat of arsenic in drinking water
How past pandemics reinforced inequality, and millions of mysterious quakes beneath a volcano
Making antibodies to treat coronavirus, and why planting trees won’t save the planet
Blood test for multiple cancers studied in 10,000 women, and is our Sun boring?
From nose to toes—how coronavirus affects the body, and a quantum microscope that unlocks the magnetic secrets of very old rocks
How countries could recover from coronavirus, lessons from an ancient drought, and feeling tactile waves in the hand
Does coronavirus spread through the air, and the biology of anorexia
How COVID-19 disease models shape shutdowns, and detecting emotions in mice
Why some diseases come and go with the seasons, and how to develop smarter, safer chemicals
Ancient artifacts on the beaches of Northern Europe, and how we remember music
Science’s leading role in the restoration of Notre Dame and the surprising biology behind how our body develops its tough skin
Dog noses detect heat, the world faces coronavirus, and scientists search for extraterrestrial life
An ancient empire hiding in plain sight, and the billion-dollar cost of illegal fishing
Brickmaking bacteria and solar cells that turn ‘waste’ heat into electricity
NIH’s new diversity hiring program, and the role of memory suppression in resilience to trauma
Fighting cancer with CRISPR, and dating ancient rock art with wasp nests
A cryo–electron microscope accessible to the masses, and tracing the genetics of schizophrenia
Getting BPA out of food containers, and tracing minute chemical mixtures in the environment
Researchers flouting clinical reporting rules, and linking gut microbes to heart disease and diabetes
Squeezing two people into an MRI machine, and deciding between what’s reasonable and what’s rational
Areas to watch in 2020, and how carnivorous plants evolved impressive traps
Breakthrough of the Year, our favorite online news stories, and the year in books
Hunting for new epilepsy drugs, and capturing lightning from space
Debating lab monkey retirement, and visiting a near-Earth asteroid
Double dipping in an NIH loan repayment program, and using undersea cables as seismic sensors
Building a landslide observatory, and the universality of music
How to make an Arctic ship ‘vanish,’ and how fast-moving spikes are heating the Sun’s atmosphere
Unearthing slavery in the Caribbean, and the Catholic Church’s influence on modern psychology
How measles wipes out immune memory, and detecting small black holes
A worldwide worm survey, and racial bias in a health care algorithm
Trying to find the mind in the brain, and why adults are always criticizing ‘kids these days’
Fossilized dinosaur proteins, and making a fridge from rubber bands
An app for eye disease, and planting memories in songbirds
Privacy concerns slow Facebook studies, and how human fertility depends on chromosome counts
Cooling Earth with asteroid dust, and 3 billion missing birds
Studying human health at 5100 meters, and playing hide and seek with rats
Searching for a lost Maya city, and measuring the information density of language
Where our microbiome came from, and how our farming and hunting ancestors transformed the world
Promising approaches in suicide prevention, and how to retreat from climate change
One million ways to sex a chicken egg, and how plastic finds its way to Arctic ice
Next-generation cellphone signals could interfere with weather forecasts, and monitoring smoke from wildfires to model nuclear winter
Earthquakes caused by too much water extraction, and a dog cancer that has lived for millennia
Breeding better bees, and training artificial intelligence on emotional imagery
Can we inherit trauma from our ancestors, and the secret to dark liquid dances
The point of pointing, and using seabirds to track ocean health
Converting carbon dioxide into gasoline, and ‘autofocal’ glasses with lenses that change shape on the fly
Creating chimeras for organ transplants and how bats switch between their eyes and ears on the wing
The why of puppy dog eyes, and measuring honesty on a global scale
Better hurricane forecasts and spotting salts on Jupiter’s moon Europa
The limits on human endurance, and a new type of LED
Grad schools dropping the GRE requirement and AIs play capture the flag
New targets for the world’s biggest atom smasher and wood designed to cool buildings
Nonstick chemicals that stick around and detecting ear infections with smartphones
Probing the secrets of the feline mind and how Uber and Lyft may be making traffic worse
The age-old quest for the color blue and why pollution is not killing the killifish
Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales
How dental plaque reveals the history of dairy farming, and how our neighbors view food waste
A new species of ancient human and real-time evolutionary changes in flowering plants
A radioactive waste standoff and science’s debt to the slave trade
Mysterious racehorse injuries, and reforming the U.S. bail system
Vacuuming potato-size nodules of valuable metals in the deep sea, and an expedition to an asteroid 290 million kilometers away
Mysterious fast radio bursts and long-lasting effects of childhood cancer treatments
Clues that the medieval plague swept into sub-Saharan Africa and evidence humans hunted and butchered giant ground sloths 12,000 years ago
Measuring earthquake damage with cellphone sensors and determining the height of the ancient Tibetan Plateau
Spotting slavery from space, and using iPads for communication disorders
How far out we can predict the weather, and an ocean robot that monitors food webs
Possible potato improvements, and a pill that gives you a jab in the gut
Treating the microbiome, and a gene that induces sleep
Pollution from pot plants, and how our bodies perceive processed foods
Peering inside giant planets, and fighting Ebola in the face of fake news
A mysterious blue pigment in the teeth of a medieval woman, and the evolution of online master’s degrees
Will a radical open-access proposal catch on, and quantifying the most deadly period of the Holocaust
End of the year podcast: 2018’s breakthroughs, breakdowns, and top online stories
‘The Tragedy of the Commons’ turns 50, and how Neanderthal DNA could change your skull
Where private research funders stow their cash and studying gun deaths in children
The universe’s star formation history and a powerful new helper for evolution
Exploding the Cambrian and building a DNA database for forensics
The worst year ever and the effects of fasting
A big increase in monkey research and an overhaul for the metric system
How the appendix could hold the keys to Parkinson’s disease, and materials scientists mimic nature
Children sue the U.S. government over climate change, and how mice inherit their gut microbes
Mutant cells in the esophagus, and protecting farmers from dangerous pesticide exposure
What we can learn from a cluster of people with an inherited intellectual disability, and questioning how sustainable green lawns are in dry places
Odd new particles may be tunneling through the planet, and how the flu operates differently in big and small towns
The future of PCB-laden orca whales, and doing genomics work with Indigenous people
Metaresearchers take on meta-analyses, and hoary old myths about science
The youngest sex chromosomes on the block, and how to test a Zika vaccine without Zika cases
Should we prioritize which endangered species to save, and why were chemists baffled by soot for so long?
<i>Science</i> and <i>Nature</i> get their social science studies replicated—or not, the mechanisms behind human-induced earthquakes, and the taboo of claiming causality in science
Sending flocks of tiny satellites out past Earth orbit and solving the irrigation efficiency paradox
Ancient volcanic eruptions, and peer pressure—from robots
Doubts about the drought that kicked off our latest geological age, and a faceoff between stink bugs with samurai wasps
How our brains may have evolved for language, and clues to what makes us leaders—or followers
Liquid water on Mars, athletic performance in transgender women, and the lost colony of Roanoke
Why the platypus gave up suckling, and how gravity waves clear clouds
The South Pole’s IceCube detector catches a ghostly particle from deep space, and how rice knows to grow when submerged
A polio outbreak threatens global eradication plans, and what happened to America’s first dogs
Increasing transparency in animal research to sway public opinion, and a reaching a plateau in human mortality
New evidence in Cuba’s ‘sonic attacks,’ and finding an extinct gibbon—in a royal Chinese tomb
The places where HIV shows no sign of ending, and the parts of the human brain that are bigger—in bigger brains
Science books for summer, and a blood test for predicting preterm birth
The first midsize black holes, and the environmental impact of global food production
Sketching suspects with DNA, and using light to find Zika-infected mosquitoes
Tracking ancient Rome’s rise using Greenland’s ice, and fighting fungicide resistance
Ancient DNA is helping find the first horse tamers, and a single gene is spawning a fierce debate in salmon conservation
The twins climbing Mount Everest for science, and the fractal nature of human bone
Deciphering talking drums, and squeezing more juice out of solar panels
Drug use in the ancient world, and what will happen to plants as carbon dioxide levels increase
How DNA is revealing Latin America’s lost histories, and how to make a molecule from just two atoms
Legendary Viking crystals, and how to put an octopus to sleep
Chimpanzee retirement gains momentum, and x-ray ‘ghost images’ could cut radiation doses
A possible cause for severe morning sickness, and linking mouse moms’ caretaking to brain changes in baby mice
How humans survived an ancient volcanic winter and how disgust shapes ecosystems
Animals that don’t need people to be domesticated; the astonishing spread of false news; and links between gender, sexual orientation, and speech
A new dark matter signal from the early universe, massive family trees, and how we might respond to alien contact
Neandertals that made art, live news from the AAAS Annual Meeting, and the emotional experience of being a scientist
Genes that turn off after death, and debunking the sugar conspiracy
Happy lab animals may make better research subjects, and understanding the chemistry of the indoor environment
Following 1000 people for decades to learn about the interplay of health, environment, and temperament, and investigating why naked mole rats don’t seem to age
The dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun shield and the importance of genes we don’t inherit
Unearthed letters reveal changes in Fields Medal awards, and predicting crime with computers is no easy feat
Salad-eating sharks, and what happens after quantum computing achieves quantum supremacy
Who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer therapy with gut microbes
<i>Science</i>’s Breakthrough of the Year, our best online news, and science books for your shopping list
Putting the breaks on driverless cars, and dolphins that can muffle their ears
Folding DNA into teddy bears and getting creative about gun violence research
Debunking yeti DNA, and the incredibly strong arms of prehistoric female farmers
The world’s first dog pictures, and looking at the planet from a quantum perspective
Preventing psychosis and the evolution—or not—of written language
Randomizing the news for science, transplanting genetically engineered skin, and the ethics of experimental brain implants
How Earth’s rotation could predict giant quakes, gene therapy’s new hope, and how carbon monoxide helps deep-diving seals
Building conscious machines, tracing asteroid origins, and how the world’s oldest forests grew
LIGO spots merging neutron stars, scholarly questions about a new Bible museum, and why wolves are better team players than dogs
Evolution of skin color, taming rice thrice, and peering into baby brains
Putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient Scottish village buried in sand, and why costly drugs may have more side effects
Furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating wombats, and puzzling out preprint publishing
Cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping jellyfish, and counting a language’s words for colors
Cargo-sorting molecular robots, humans as the ultimate fire starters, and molecular modeling with quantum computers
Taking climate science to court, sailing with cylinders, and solar cooling
Mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of negotiating AIs, and atomic bonding between the United States and China
What hunter-gatherer gut microbiomes have that we don’t, and breaking the emoji code
A jump in rates of knee arthritis, a brief history of eclipse science, and bands and beats in the atmosphere of brown dwarfs
Coddled puppies don’t do as well in school, some trees make their own rain, and the Americas were probably first populated by ancient mariners
The biology of color, a database of industrial espionage, and a link between prions and diabetes
DNA and proteins from ancient books, music made from data, and the keys to poverty traps
Paying cash for carbon, making dogs friendly, and destroying all life on Earth
Still-living dinosaurs, the world’s first enzymes, and thwarting early adopters in tech
Odorless calories for weight loss, building artificial intelligence researchers can trust, and can oily birds fly?
A Stone Age skull cult, rogue Parkinson’s proteins in the gut, and controversial pesticides linked to bee deaths
Why eggs have such weird shapes, doubly domesticated cats, and science balloons on the rise
Slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular level, and plumbing magma’s secrets
How to weigh a star—with a little help from Einstein, toxic ‘selfish genes,’ and the world’s oldest Homo sapiens fossils
A new taste for the tongue, ancient DNA from Egyptian mummies, and early evidence for dog breeding
How whales got so big, sperm in space, and a first look at Jupiter’s poles
Preventing augmented-reality overload, fixing bone with tiny bubbles, and studying human migrations
Our newest human relative, busting human sniff myths, and the greenhouse gas that could slow global warming
Podcast: Reading pain from the brains of infants, modeling digital faces, and wifi holograms
Podcast: Where dog breeds come from, bots that build buildings, and gathering ancient human DNA from cave sediments
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