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More Conversations, Complex Questions, and Bold Ideas in Season Five of ‘The Joy of Why’

A study of 8,300 older adults revealed a surprising salt habit

Hidden in plain sight: The race to discover new species before they're gone

Milky Way black hole's missing wind finally found after a half-century-long search

Even quiet black holes create winds, new Milky Way observations reveal

An unfinished reckoning with police violence: Community data show ongoing systemic racism

Laser 'origami' could help astronauts build structures on the moon

ExoMars rover targets vast bed of clay in search for life

Coastal communities at risk of effects of repeating cycles of inequality in marine energy transition

Endangered basking sharks rely on the ocean twilight zone during long-distance migrations

Charred Bronze Age teeth unlock age at death despite cremation

Scientists finally crack an “undruggable” pancreatic cancer target and nearly double survival

Majestic manta rays dive deep to survive storm events, data reveal

Short videos may hinder learning by fragmenting attention and memory, study finds

Goethe never knew this 40-million-year-old ant was hidden in his collection

Too much hype? Research explores the best language to use for successful crowdfunding

How Rachel Carson's Silent Spring changed the world in 1962

SpaceX seeks a record $75 bn in stock market debut

From introvert to hero: The 'Hacker' revealed

Photoexcitation flips 2D moiré devices from metals to insulators in ultrafast test

Detection at the nanoscale: A phosphate-detecting electrochemical sensor

Humans conquered the planet 300 times faster than genetic evolution can explain

Search for alien technology on interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS comes up empty

Scientists discover the master clock that controls biological growth and development

Tools to fight hantavirus show promise despite limited funding. Now researchers hope to continue

SpaceX's IPO is set to be the biggest ever and could make Elon Musk a trillionaire

New gold-palladium catalysis mechanism could advance bio-based chemical manufacturing

Stonehenge's altar stone probably wasn't transported by a glacier

Screwworm fly detected in Texas decades after cattle threat was largely eradicated in US

Canadian government endorses a plan to move whales from shuttered Marineland park to US and Spain

Stonehenge Altar Stone's epic transportation across ancient Britain detailed in new study

Beluga whales keep switching mates and it may be saving their species

Scientists discover a quantum effect that could eliminate batteries

Cancer’s favorite escape trick may actually make it easier to kill

NASA's Webb detects methane and strange chemistry on interstellar comet 3I/ATLAS

Moms' learned fear of snakes gets inherited by offspring in a critically endangered mouse, biologists discover

Reconnecting the last wild landscapes of the Javan leopard

Q&A: How approval processes drive up housing costs in major cities

The next-generation Very Large Array prototype gathers its first light

Great apes: What we know about their cognition, cooperation and curiosity after two decades of research

White House reclassifies federal epidemiologists and other scientists from civil servants to ‘at-will’ hires

Asteroid dirt is 'fluffier' than we thought

Species of Brazilian moths described in honor of Orixás, foundational deities of Afro-Brazilian religions

Hybrid work is not always the golden compromise employees expect—even as more companies implement it

Monitoring reveals elevated antidepressant levels in some waterways

Dynamic nanogates let longer molecules pass faster through flexible pores

Q&A: Why scientists are studying a microbe they found in a sink

Nitric oxide overload jams plant immune signals, researchers find

A new capability to detect chemical weapons involves two existing methods

Tanzania's iconic heritage sites face damage from state-backed tourism