Someone Flew a Drone Too Close to a Wildfire, Again
Firefighters in Colorado had to ground their aircraft for an hour.
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Cornelia Li China Is Genetically Engineering Monkeys With Brain Disorders
A visit to a facility in Guangdong province, where researchers are tinkering with monkey brains in order to understand the most severe forms of autism
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Social Media / Reuters It’s Not About the Raccoon
There’s an irony to all the love for Minnesota’s famous furry climber.
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Radio Atlantic: Being Black in America Can Be Hazardous to Your Health
Why do black Americans die earlier than white Americans? Staff writers Olga Khazan and Vann Newkirk join Matt and Alex to discuss how poverty and prejudice shorten African-American lifespans.
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Sophia Dagnello / NRAO / AUI / NSF Black Holes Really Know How to Savor Their Meals
Astronomers have detected the glow of a star being slowly devoured millions of light-years from Earth.
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Jamie Hall Fear of Humans Is Making Animals Around the World Go Nocturnal
Even non-threatening activities like hiking are changing creatures’ sleep cycles.
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Eric Isselee / Dmitrij Skorobogatov / Shutterstock / ... The Neuroscientific Case for Facing Your Fears
A new study shows that mice have to remember their phobias if they are to lose them effectively.
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Is Trump Ready for a Global Outbreak?
Should America experience a pandemic, the president’s tendencies toward nationalism may fuel the fire.
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Jonno Rattman The Next Plague Is Coming. Is America Ready?
The epidemics of the early 21st century revealed a world unprepared, even as the risks continue to multiply. Much worse is coming.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech / TAMU NASA Is Really Worried About Its Mars Rover
Will Opportunity survive a massive dust storm?
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Alexandre Meneghini / Reuters After Decades of Losing Ice, Antarctica Is Now Hemorrhaging It
Global warming has already cost the continent 2.7 trillion tons of mass.
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Carlos Barria / Reuters Why Are People So Unproductive in Short Windows of Time?
Who knows where the last hour went.
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rangizzz / kotoffei / Shutterstock / Arsh Raziuddin ... The Little-Known Nonprofit Behind the CRISPR Boom
A DNA archive has been quietly connecting labs from Massachusetts to China to Iraq.
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Christopher DeLorenzo Gossiping Is Good
The surprising virtues of talking behind people’s backs
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Katja Schulz / Flickr How to Tame a Zombie Fungus
Cicadas have repeatedly turned the infamous cordyceps fungi into indispensable allies.
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Mike Hutchings / Reuters Trees That Have Lived for Millennia Are Suddenly Dying
The oldest baobabs are collapsing, and there's only one likely explanation.
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Kike Calvo / AP A Sneaky Theory of Where Language Came From
It might have hijacked our early ancestors’ brains.
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Photographer: Kiliii Yüyan / Art Director: Olena Shmahalo In the Garden of an Alien Hunter
When Victoria Meadows needs to ponder life on distant planets, she surrounds herself with earthly vegetation.
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Nathan Benn / Getty How Much Pain Should Animals Endure for Science?
Animal suffering is incredibly difficult to measure. So is whether or not it actually benefits research.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech A New Glimpse Into the Martian Past
The Curiosity rover is at it again.
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Susan Walsh / AP / twenty1studio / Shutterstock ... A CRISPR Pioneer on Gene Editing: 'We Shouldn't Screw It Up'
Feng Zhang says many problems still have to be solved before the technology can be used to treat human diseases.
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Daniel Becerril / Reuters The Tipping Point When Minority Views Take Over
A new study says that small groups can overturn established norms if they reach a critical mass of 25 percent.
