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Science

Antarctic glacier shows fastest retreat in modern history - Nov. 3, 2025

As U.S. shutdown drags on, ‘it’s just one blow after another’ - Oct. 10, 2025

Missing wind from Milky Way’s giant black hole finally found - Oct. 7, 2025

A ‘solar bump’ could help data centers recover wasted energy - Sep. 24, 2025

The Ig Nobels are science’s most lighthearted event. This year is ‘not typical’ - Sep. 19, 2025

Don’t blame the algorithm: Polarization may be inherent in social media - Aug. 15, 2025

Watch an earthquake split a hillside in two - Jul. 22, 2025

How hydrogen-leaking ‘fairy circles’ might form - Jul. 10, 2025

UV-C light kills nearly everything—except this unusual organism - Jun. 27, 2025

This mass of amber traps evidence of an ancient tsunami - May. 15, 2025

Astronomers searching for Planet Nine find possible hints of different planet - Apr. 29, 2025

Confusion and worry as DOGE cuts hit NASA - Mar. 27, 2025

A deep Earth layer may have primed the planet for plate tectonics - Mar. 19, 2025

Earth’s inner core might harbor volcanoes and landslides - Feb. 10, 2025

Newly discovered x-ray objects could be a rare type of black hole - Jan. 29, 2025

​Early supernovae may have filled the universe with planet-forming dust - Jan. 21, 2025

NASA lab and historic observatory narrowly escape LA fire damage - Jan. 10, 2025

Advocate for girls in science can now make her pitch in Congress - Dec. 17, 2024

Trump picks billionaire astronaut to lead NASA - Dec. 4, 2024

These spiders capture their prey with deadly accurate slingshot traps - Dec. 4, 2024

Turtles map seagrass better than satellites can - Nov. 26, 2024

Here’s how voters landed on state science issues - Nov. 7, 2024

In some U.S. states, science is on the ballot - Nov. 1, 2024

NASA instrument to study the mysterious origins of the solar wind - Oct. 31, 2024

Are diamonds Earth’s best friend? Gem dust could cool the planet - Oct. 17, 2024

What causes the windless doldrums that strand sailors? Find upends previous thinking - Oct. 9, 2024

Imagining faces in tree trunks and your morning eggs? AI can see them, too - Oct. 4, 2024

Scientists discover new kind of gamma ray emission in thunderstorms - Oct. 2, 2024

A river’s new course may have given Mount Everest a ‘growth spurt’ - Sep. 30, 2024

Some octopuses treat fish like hunting buddies - Sep. 23, 2024

ScienceAdviser: What do you do with a drunken worm? - Sep. 16, 2024

Live from the ‘Iggies’: Eight things you didn’t know about science’s wackiest night - Sep. 13, 2024

Watch a ghostly creature carry seaweed upside down on the bottom of the Atlantic - Sep. 10, 2024

‘Nasty’ microorganisms need saving, too - Sep. 6, 2024

More damaging than tornadoes, hail may finally get the scientific attention it deserves - Sep. 4, 2024

Scientists find 41,000-year-old viruses frozen in ice - Aug. 26, 2024

Builders of massive ancient monument understood the science behind their work - Aug. 23, 2024

Sounds from the soil reveal who’s crawling below - Aug. 16, 2024

Does the moon need its own time zone? - Aug. 14, 2024

Terraforming Mars could be easier than scientists thought - Aug. 7, 2024

Waves rippling under continents could explain mysterious plateaus around the world - Aug. 7, 2024

‘Superpowered’ bats keep their hearing as they age - Jul. 30, 2024

U.S. Senate spending bill sets up congressional clash over research spending - Jul. 26, 2024

​To avoid sea level rise, some researchers want to build barriers around the world’s most vulnerable glaciers - Jul. 12, 2024

Are invasive spotted lanternflies hitching rides across state lines?Jul. 9, 2024

Eos

Garment Factories Are Heating Up. Here’s How Workers Can Stay Cool - Nov. 14, 2025

Sky & Telescope

NASA Faces Government Shutdown, Funding Fears Rise - Oct. 3, 2025

Saturn’s Moon Enceladus Might Have Weird “Space Rainbows” - Aug. 18, 2025

Congress’s NASA and NSF Budgets Counter Trump, Fund Science - Jul. 28, 2025

Proposed NOAA Budget Kills Program That Was Designed to Prevent Satellite Collisions - Jul. 10, 2025

“Shattering” NSF Budget Proposal Threatens Gravitational Wave Science - Jun. 17, 2025

Amid U.S. Science Funding Cuts, Europe Seeks Top American Talent - Jun. 11, 2025

Proposed NASA Budget Would Gut Space Science, Jobs - Jun. 3, 2025

Tariffs Alarm the Amateur Astronomy Industry - Apr. 25, 2025

A Rare Kind of White Dwarf Could Foster Habitable Worlds - Feb. 13, 2025

Mysterious “Little Red Dots” Give Clues to Early Black Holes’ Formation - Jan. 17, 2025

Chasing the Eclipse From the Air - Mar. 25, 2024

Astronomers Discover 562 New Candidate Strong Lenses with Machine Learning - Dec. 4, 2023

Nature Careers

Before studying parasites, this PhD researcher was their host - May 21, 2025

Sierra Magazine

Do Zoos Have a Place in 2025? - May 19, 2025

Science News

Citizen scientists make cosmic discoveries with a global telescope network - Mar 4, 2025

Ars Technica

Did the snowball Earth give complex life a boost? - Feb 28, 2025

East Coast has a giant offshore freshwater aquifer—how did it get there? - May 20, 2024

Smithsonian

Parasites Are Everywhere. Why Do So Few Researchers Study Them? - Jul. 31, 2024

WIRED

Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash - Jul. 25, 2024

GBH News

New Peabody 'peaker' power plant prepares to go online less green than promised - Jul. 5, 2024

 

Knight Science Journalism Program

Deborah Balthazar Talks Battling Imposter Syndrome as a Young Science Writer - Apr. 29, 2024

Astronomy Writer Lisa Grossman Makes Space for the Personal - Nov. 13, 2023

Circle of Blue

Dead Tree Standing: Saltwater Threatens Coastal Forests and Ecosystem Services (The Struggle with Salt, Part 3/3) - Sep. 14, 2022

“Fighting for Inches” in the Southeast’s Struggle With Salt (The Struggle with Salt, Part 2/3) - Aug. 22, 2022

Saltwater Intrusion, a “Slow Poison” to East Coast Drinking Water (The Struggle with Salt, Part 1/3) - Aug. 2, 2022

Living on Earth

Cleaning Up Crypto (Audio) - Nov. 25, 2022

Extinction Threatens 1 In 6 U.S. Trees (Audio) - Sep. 30, 2022

'Forever Chemicals' Are Now Everywhere, Too (Audio) - Sep. 16, 2022

Tigers on the Rebound (Audio) - Sep. 9, 2022

Renters and Climate Change (Audio) - Sep. 9, 2022

Feeding Seaweed to Cows for Lower Emissions (Audio) - Jul. 15, 2022

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