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folding dna into teddy bears and getting creative...

This week,three papers came out describing unusual approaches to folding DNA into large complex...

a stone age skull cult, rogue parkinson s proteins...

This week we have stories on what the rogue Parkinson’s protein is doing in the intestine,how...

the dangers of dismantling a geoengineered sun...

Catherine Matacic—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately how...

science s breakthrough of the year, our best...

Dave Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately a few of this...

debunking yeti dna, and the incredibly strong arms...

The abominable snowman,the yeti, bigfoot, and sasquatch—these long-lived myths of giant,hairy...

following 1000 people for decades to learn about...

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately the chance a...

who visits raccoon latrines, and boosting cancer...

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately a long-term...

putting rescue robots to the test, an ancient...

This week we hear stories approximately putting rescue bots to the test after the Mexico...

podcast: a close look at a giant moon crater, the...

This week,we chat approximately some of our favorite stories—eating rats in the Neolithic, growing...

podcast: a burning body experiment, prehistoric...

News stories on our earliest hunting companions,should we seed exoplanets with life, and finding...

how to weigh a star—with a little help from...

This week we have stories on what body cams reveal approximately interactions between black drivers...

podcast: an ethics conundrum from the nazi era,...

This week,we chat approximately how long dinosaur eggs recall—or took—to hatch, a recent survey...

podcast: human pheromones lightly debunked,...

This week,how Flickr photos could help predict floods, why it might be a honorable idea to disregard...

podcast: the rise of skeletons, species blurring...

This week we chat approximately why it’s tough to get a taxi to nowhere,why bones came onto the...

podcast: double navigation in desert ants,...

News stories on magnetic waste in the brain,the top deal breakers in online dating, and wolves that...

podcast: how mice mess up reproducibility, new...

News stories on a humanmade RNA copier that bolsters ideas about early life on Earth,the downfall of...

happy lab animals may make better research...

Would gay lab animals—rats,mice, even zebrafish—manufacture for better experiments? David...

how earth s rotation could predict giant quakes,...

This week we hear stories on how the sloshing of soil’s core may spike major earthquakes,carbon...

podcast: where dog breeds come from, bots that...

This week,a new family tree of dog breeds, advances in artificial wombs, and an autonomous robot...

podcast: our breakthrough of the year, top online...

This week,we chat about human evolution in action, 6000-year-feeble fairy tales, and other top news...

podcast: an atmospheric pacemaker skips a beat, a...

A rapid/fast change in chickens’ genes as a result of a papal ban on eating four-legged...

podcast: saving wolves that aren t really wolves,...

Stories on birds that guide people to honey,genes left over from the final universal common...

genes that turn off after death, and debunking the...

Some of our genes reach alive after we die. David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks...

cargo sorting molecular robots, humans as the...

This week we hear stories on the gut microbiome’s involvement in multiple sclerosis, how...

coddled puppies don t do as well in school, some...

This week we hear stories on original satellite measurements that propose the Amazon makes its own...

still living dinosaurs, the world s first enzymes,...

This week,we own stories on how ultraviolet rays may own jump-started the first enzymes on soil, a...

podcast: an 80 million year old dinosaur protein,...

This week,we chat about how the soil is sending oxygen to the moon, using a GPS data set to hunt for...

podcast: a blood test for concussions, how the...

This week,we chat about a blood test that could predict recovery time after a concussion, recent...

podcast: when we pay attention to plane crashes,...

This week,we chat approximately some of our favorite stories -- including a current bacterial model...

unearthed letters reveal changes in fields medal...

Freelance science writer Michael Price talks with Sarah Crespi about recently revealed deliberations...

preventing psychosis and the evolution—or...

How has written language changed over time? Do the way we read and the way our eyes work influence...

cosmic rays from beyond our galaxy, sleeping...

This week we hear stories on animal hoarding,how different languages have different numbers of...

podcast: cosmic rays, color words, and sleeping...

This week we hear stories on animal hoarding,how different languages fill different numbers of...

paying cash for carbon, making dogs friendly, and...

This week we occupy stories on the genes that may make dogs friendly,why midsized animals are the...

podcast: killing off stowaways to mars, chasing...

This week,how to avoid contaminating Mars with microbial hitchhikers, turning mammalian cells into...

podcast: cracking the smell code, why dinosaurs...

This week,we chat approximately why people are kind to each other—does it feel good or are we just...

podcast: bringing back tomato flavor genes,...

This week,we chat about 50-kilogram otters that once stalked southern China, using baseball stats to...

a jump in rates of knee arthritis, a brief history...

This week we hear stories on a huge jump in U.S. rates of knee arthritis,some science hits and...

the biology of color, a database of industrial...

This week we hear stories on diagnosing Alzheimers disease in chimps,a potential fresh pathway to...

podcast: when good lions go bad, listening to...

This week,meteors’ hiss may come from radio waves, pigeons that build on the wings of those that...

podcast: giant virus genetics, human high altitude...

This week,viruses as remnants of a fourth domain of life, a scan of many Tibetan genomes reveals...

podcast: how farms made dogs love carbs, the role...

This week,we chat approximately some of our favorite stories—is Bhutan really a quake-free zone,...

podcast: ceres s close up, how dogs listen, and a...

News stories on what words dogs know,an RNA therapy for psoriasis, and how Lucy may have fallen from...

furiously beating bat hearts, giant migrating...

This week we hear stories on how a bat varies its heart rate to avoid starving,giant wombatlike...

taking climate science to court, sailing with...

This week we hear stories on smooth sailing with giant,silolike sails, a midsized black gap that may...

preventing augmented reality overload, fixing bone...

This week we have stories on blocking uncertain or annoying distractions in augmented reality,gene...

podcast: the archaeology of democracy, new...

This week,what bear-mounted cameras can advise us about their caribou-hunting habits, ants that mix...

podcast: explaining menopause in killer whales,...

This week,we chat approximately a surprising reason why killer whales undergo menopause, flipping a...

podcast: an omnipresent antimicrobial, a lichen...

Stories on a lichen threesome,tremors caused by tides, and a theoretical way to examine nuclear...

podcast: a farewell to science s editor in chief,...

Listen to how mosquito spit helps perform us sick,mother bears protect their young with human...

putting the breaks on driverless cars, and...

Whales and dolphins have incredibly sensitive hearing and are known to be harmed by loud underwater...

building conscious machines, tracing asteroid...

This week we hear stories on sunlight pushing Mars’s flock of asteroids around,approximately...

ligo spots merging neutron stars, scholarly...

This week we hear stories approximately the Laser Interferometer Gravitational-Wave Observatory’s...

mysteriously male crocodiles, the future of...

This week we hear stories on involving more AIs in negotiations,tiny algae that might be responsible...

why eggs have such weird shapes, doubly...

This week we have stories on the novel capabilities of science balloons,connections between...

our newest human relative, busting human sniff...

This week we beget stories on ancient hominids that may beget coexisted with early modern...

podcast: recognizing the monkey in the mirror,...

This week,we chat about what it means whether a monkey can learn to recognize itself in a mirror,...

podcast: ending aids in south africa, what makes...

Listen to stories on how plants know when to take risks,confirmation that the ozone layer is on the...

salad eating sharks, and what happens after...

David Grimm—online news editor for Science—talks with Sarah Crespi approximately two underwater...

podcast: teaching self driving cars to read,...

This week,original estimates for the depths of the world’s lakes, a video game that could help...

podcast: saving grizzlies from trains, cheap sun...

This week,we chat approximately why grizzly bears seem to be dying on Canadian railway tracks,...

podcast: the economics of the uber era, mysterious...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on underground rings built by Neandertals,worldwide...

podcast: spreading cancer, sacrificing humans, and...

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on evidence for the soil being hit by...

evolution of skin color, taming rice thrice, and...

This week we hear stories approximately a novel brain imaging technique for newborns,recently...

slowly retiring chimps, tanning at the cellular...

This week we have stories on why it’s taking so long for research chimps to retire,boosting...

podcast: breaking the 2 hour marathon barrier,...

This week,we chat approximately the science behind breaking the 2-hour marathon barrier, storing...

podcast: scientists on the night shift, sucking up...

This week,we chat approximately cements shrinking carbon footprint, commuting hazards for ancient...

podcast: pollution hot spots in coastal waters,...

News stories on bees that live perilously close to the mouth of a volcano,diagnosing arthritis in...

podcast: watching shoes untie, cassini s last dive...

This week,walk like an elephant—very far, with seeds in your guts, or Cassini’s mission to...

podcast: altering time perception, purifying...

This week,we chat about cleaning blueberries with purple plasma, how Tibetan dogs adapted to...

podcast: bumble bee emotions, the purpose of...

This week,we chat approximately some of our favorite stories—including making bees optimistic,...

podcast: an exoplanet with three suns, no relief...

Listen to stories on how once we lose cartilage it’s gone forever,genetically engineering a...

podcast: bionic leaves that make fuel, digging...

Listen to stories on unusual evidence for double dog domestication,what traces of mercury in coral...

podcast: nuclear forensics, honesty in a sea of...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on the influence of governmental corruption on the...

podcast: dancing dinosaurs, naked black holes, and...

What stripped an unusual black gap of its stars? Can a bipolar drug change ant behavior? And...

podcast: reading pain from the brains of infants,...

This week,we discuss the most accurate digital model of a human face to date, stray Wi-Fi signals...

podcast: the impact of legal pot on opioid abuse,...

This week,news writer Greg Miller chats with us approximately how the legalization of marijuana in...

podcast: quantum dots in consumer electronics and...

Sarah Crespi takes a pop quiz on literal life hacking,spotting poverty from outer space, and the...

podcast: scoliosis development, antiracing...

Listen to stories on lizard stripes that trick predators,what a tiny jaw bone reveals approximately...

podcast: rocky remnants of early earth, plants...

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories how the Venus flytrap turned to the meat-eating...

podcast: sizing up a baby dino, jolting dead...

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on a possibledebunking of a approved brain stimulation...

podcast: taking race out of genetics, a cellular...

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on killing cells to lengthen life,getting mom’s...

podcast: what ants communicate when kissing, stars...

This week,we chat approximately kissing communication in ants, building immune strength by climbing...

podcast: tracking zika, the evolution of sign...

Online news editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on the evolution of sign language,short...

podcast: combatting malnutrition with gut...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on how our abilities shape our minds,killing cancer...

podcast: the effects of neandertal dna on health,...

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on confessions extracted from drowsy people,malaria...

podcast: the science of the apocalypse, and...

What do we know approximately humanity-ending catastrophes? Julia Rosen talks with Sarah Crespi...

podcast: treating cocaine addiction, mirror...

Listen to stories on the first mirror image molecule spotted in outer space,looking at the role of...

podcast: battling it out in the bronze age,...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on SeaWorld’s plans for killer whales,the first...

podcast: a planet beyond pluto, the bugs in your...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on studying marijuana utilize in teenage...

what hunter gatherer gut microbiomes have that we...

Sarah Crespi talks to Sam Smits about how our microbial passengers differ from one culture to the...

podcast: science lessons for the next u.s....

This week,we chat about some of our favorite stories—jumping spiders that can hear without ears,...

podcast: the latest news from pluto, a rock eating...

News intern Nala Rogers shares stories on mineral-mining microbes,mapping hurricane damage using...

podcast: glowing robot skin, zombie frogs, and...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on zombification by a frog-killing fungus,relating the...

podcast: a recipe for clean and tasty drinking...

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on what we can learn from 6million years of...

podcast: tracking rats in a city slum, the giraffe...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on finding clues to giraffes’ height in their...

podcast: why animal personalities matter, killer...

Online News Editor David Grimm shares stories on a proposal for an orca sanctuary in the sea,the...

podcast: patent trolls, the earthquake volcano...

Online News Editor Catherine Matacic shares stories on howearthquakes may trigger volcanic...

podcast: building a portable drug factory, mapping...

Online news editor David Grimm shares stories on yeasty hitchhikers,sunlight-induced rockfalls, and...

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