Epidemiology
Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World
These pathogens already kill 1.6 million people every year, and we have few defenses against them
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Psychology
Fixing the Hated Open-Design Office
Open-office designs create productivity and health problems. New insights from Deaf and autistic communities could fix them
Quantum Physics
The Little-Known Origin Story behind the 2022 Nobel Prize in Physics
In 1949 physicist Chien-Shiung Wu devised an experiment that documented evidence of entanglement. Her findings have been hidden in plain sight for more than 70 years
Animals
No One Knows How the Biggest Animals on Earth—Baleen Whales—Find Their Food
How do giant filter-feeding whales find their tiny prey? The answer could be key to saving endangered species
Weather
Better Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Giving Emergency Planners More Time to Prepare for Flooding
Knowing when torrents of rain will strike can save property and lives
Cognition
Babies Are Born with an Innate Number Sense
Plato was right: newborns do math
Animals
What Scientists Are Learning about Women’s Health from Other Female Animals
Evolved adaptations of female animals could help solve women’s health challenges
Behavior
The Forgotten History of the World's First Trans Clinic
The Institute for Sexual Research in Berlin would be a century old if it hadn’t fallen victim to Nazi ideology
Quantum Physics
Tiny Bubbles of Primordial Soup Re-create Early Universe
New experiments can re-create the young cosmos, when it was a mash of fundamental particles, more precisely than ever before
Neuroscience
Long COVID Now Looks like a Neurological Disease, Helping Doctors to Focus Treatments
The causes of long COVID, which disables millions, may come together in the brain and nervous system
Neuroscience
Monogamous Prairie Voles Reveal the Neurobiology of Love
Studies of prairie voles are providing surprising new insights into how social bonds form
Climate Change
Solving Cement’s Massive Carbon Problem
New techniques and novel ingredients can greatly reduce the immense carbon emissions from cement and concrete production
Astronomy
Satellite Constellations Are an Existential Threat for Astronomy
Growing swarms of spacecraft in orbit are outshining the stars, and scientists fear no one will do anything to stop it
Climate Change
The Right Words Are Crucial to Solving Climate Change
Speaking to people’s priorities can build the will needed to implement climate solutions
Neuroscience
Acting Out Dreams Predicts Parkinson’s and Other Brain Diseases
Enacted dreams could be an early sign of Parkinson’s disease
Extraterrestrial Life
The Search for Extraterrestrial Life as We Don’t Know It
Scientists are abandoning conventional thinking to search for extraterrestrial creatures that bear little resemblance to Earthlings
Artificial Intelligence
What an Endless Conversation with Werner Herzog Can Teach Us about AI
An AI-generated conversation between Werner Herzog and Slavoj Žižek is definitely entertaining, but it also illustrates the crisis of misinformation beginning to befall us
Cosmology
How Star Collisions Forge the Universe’s Heaviest Elements
Scientists have new evidence about how cosmic cataclysms forge gold, platinum and other heavy members of the periodic table
Culture
This Spiritual Tradition Could Be the Most Poetic Bereavement Therapy Ever Documented
A mourning ritual of dialogues with the dead speaks to the fragility of theological diversity
Inequality
The Opioid Epidemic Is Surging among Black People because of Unequal Access to Treatment
Clinics and the most effective types of therapy are harder to find in communities where people of color live
