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Man in white Halloween mask with red light (Getty Images)

Why people love to scare themselves

Sarah Kollat - The Conversation
Kamala Harris and Donald Trump (Photo illustration by Salon/Getty Images)

The climate stakes of the 2024 election

Grist Staff - Grist
A hand holding a smartphone emanating flames. (rob dobi / Getty Images)

Are we misinformed about misinformation?

Sara Talpos - Undark
Students in a robotics class (Getty Images/skynesher)

How to ensure girls stay in STEM

Lesley Martinez-Aviles
A protester is walking towards a wildfire started by a launched tear gas canister during a march as part of a rally against the construction of a giant water reservoir (mega-bassine) in Migne-Auxances, western France, on July 19, 2024. (Jerome Gilles/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Climate despair has never been higher

Matthew Rozsa
Power of the mind. (Kateryna Kovarzh / Getty Images)

Is depression contagious?

Joshua Cohen - Undark
Herring Gull Larus argentatus with three chicks (Getty Images/aseppa)

Why gulls don't deserve the hate

Brianna Grant
Elderly woman pauses by window to smell orange flowers. (Getty Images/Iuliia Burmistrova)

Humans smell faster than we thought

Matthew Rozsa
Spider Crab (Getty Images/George Karbus Photography)

Why the internet is obsessed with crabs

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Long covid activists attend the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Labor, Health and Human Services, Education, and Related Agencies hearing on the "Fiscal Year 2025 Budget Request for the National Institutes of Health," in Dirksen building on Thursday, May 23, 2024. (Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Will XEC be this winter’s COVID variant?

Carlyn Zwarenstein
Artist's illustration of the exoplanet WASP-107 b based on transit observations from NASA's James Webb Space Telescope as well as other space- and ground-based telescopes, led by Matthew Murphy of the University of Arizona and a team of researchers around the world. (Rachel Amaro, University of Arizona)

Planet with uneven atmosphere analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
A person looks at Vincent van Gogh's "The Starry Night" during a press preview for Van Gogh's Cypresses at The Met Fifth Avenue in New York on May 15, 2023. (TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images)

Van Gogh's brilliant fluid dynamics

Matthew Rozsa
A species of semi-aquatic lizard produces a special bubble over its nostrils to breathe underwater. (Lindsey Swierk)

How this lizard learned to "scuba dive"

Matthew Rozsa
Neanderthal Man in front of his cave (Getty Images/Bettmann)

Thorin the Neanderthal's genes analyzed

Matthew Rozsa
Dolphin in aquarium (Getty Images/vdorse)

Gaze and the evolution of empathy

Carlyn Zwarenstein
An Arnold Air Force Base team member swabs the muzzle of a tricolored bat in a cave near Arnold AFB, Tennessee, Dec. 5, 2022, to contribute to a study by Virginia Tech concerning the species and white-nose syndrome. WNS is named for a fungus that often looks like white fuzz on the muzzles of infected bats. Currently, there is not a cure for the disease. ((U.S. Air Force photo by Jill Pickett))

Bat deaths linked to infant mortality

Troy Farah
Rossano study Dog and Soundboard (Courtesy of Comparative Cognition Lab at UC San Diego/Photo by Patrick Wood)

Yes, dogs understand soundboard words

Nicole Karlis
Water Bear, Phylum Tardigrade, showing all eight 8 legs, microscopic (Getty Images/Robert Pickett)

Secrets of tardigrade evolution revealed

Matthew Rozsa
Sperm whale and sound-waves, illustration. (Getty Images/VICTOR HABBICK VISIONS/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Maybe don't use AI to talk with whales

Levi Stallings
Medium Mylodon Cave or Cueva del Milodon Natural Monument a leading attraction in the Natales region, Patagonia, southern (Sergi Reboredo/VW Pics/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

The demise of Darwin’s giant sloth

Nikolas Kozloff
DNA molecule (Getty Images/KATERYNA KON/SCIENCE PHOTO LIBRARY)

Editing fetal genomes is on the horizon

Julia Brown - The Conversation
Friends running together in a park (Getty Images/Thomas Barwick)

Why exercising to lose weight backfires

Matthew Rozsa
Long-billed Vulture (Gyps indicus) at Bandhavgarh National park, Madhya Pradesh, India (Getty Images/ePhotocorp)

Vulture deaths linked to human deaths

Matthew Rozsa
A .22 pistol firing at a target. (Getty Images/Jesse Bacon)

Second thoughts about gunshot detectors

Rod McCullom - Undark
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