The high Andes of Peru are a hummingbird’s paradise. There are few predators. And wildflowers cover the mountain slopes. Their...
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Can an Algorithm Help Solve Political Paralysis? Dave Johnson refuses to eat fish farmed near Minneapolis. The retired construction...
Earthquake Sounds Could Reveal How Quickly the Ocean Is Warming There may be a new way to take the...
Population Density Does Not Doom Cities to Pandemic Dangers In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, some U.S....
Global Biodiversity Is in Free Fall Global efforts to address the steep, ongoing loss of biodiversity through a series...
How New Mexico Controlled the Spread of COVID-19 There is a joke in New Mexico that the rest of...
Venus Might Host Life, New Discovery Suggests There is something funky going on in the clouds of Venus. Telescopes...
Photos Show Massive Wildfires Devastating Oregon and California From the Mexican border to the forests of Washington State, the...
Mail-Sorting Machines Are Crucial for the U.S. Postal Service This summer the American Postal Workers Union filed a grievance...
Why Trump-Favoring Voters Ignored a Deadly Hurricane Warning People who live in the southern U.S. are used to evacuating...
SpaceX's Dark Satellites Are Still Too Bright for Astronomers Starlink, a “megaconstellation” of hundreds of Internet satellites launched by...
Emotional Labor Is a Store Clerk Confronting a Maskless Customer Two men walked into a Trader Joe’s supermarket in...
Blood and Silicon: New Electronics-Cooling System Mimics Human Capillaries As electronics get steadily smaller and denser, they also get...
First U.S. Small Nuclear Reactor Design Is Approved The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has approved the design of...
Smoking or Vaping May Increase the Risk of a Severe Coronavirus Infection Editor’s Note (9/8/20): This article has been...
Mountain Peaks Seem to Shape Personality Traits in the American West The designation “mountain man” conjures an image of...
Jupiter's Ocean Moons Raise One Another's Tides Jupiter’s four largest moons may be conspiring to maintain their subsurface oceans....
Google's Quantum Computer Achieves Chemistry Milestone When researchers at Google announced last fall that they had achieved “quantum superiority”—a...
How to Decide Who Should Get a COVID-19 Vaccine First If and when a safe and effective COVID-19 vaccine...
Physicists Create City-Sized Ultrasecure Quantum Network Quantum cryptography promises a future in which computers communicate with one another over...
Elon Musk's Pig-Brain Implant Is Still a Long Way from 'Solving Paralysis' Last week Elon Musk’s brain tech start-up...
LIGO and Virgo Capture Their Most Massive Black Holes Yet The alert caught Zsuzsanna Márka’s attention immediately. Whenever the...
