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The Hale Telescope dome at the Palomar Observatory

How do astronomers work without telescopes?

 Space, Physics, and Math
• February 3, 2021

Astronomers are finding ways to keep investigating the universe despite missing data due to COVID-19 telescope shutdowns

Novel Science animation, by Niko McCarty.

Novel Science: Steampunk and the history of prosthetics

 Novel Science
• February 1, 2021

Reimagining the past, now with 40% more gears

Eight pills of Truvada are depicted. Each are engraved to say 701. The pills are blue.

A little blue pill that protects you from HIV — if you use it

 Health
• January 29, 2021

PrEP is close to 99% effective in preventing HIV. So, why aren’t more people using it?

A sourdough starter. Photo: Jill Wellington/CC 0

Death of a sourdough

 Audio
• January 28, 2021

How a neglected sourdough starter can go from a bubbling yeast factory to a smelly, moldy mess

A panoramic image of the surface of Mars taken by the Spirit rover.

Terra-farming: A possible step toward growing food on Mars

 Space, Physics, and Math
• January 27, 2021

Scientists recently developed a substance that could help plants grow on Mars without the need for an artificial oxygen atmosphere

Honeybee perches on purple and yellow flower gathering nectar

Roundup may harm honeybee gut health

 Environment
• January 25, 2021

The popular weed killer could impair honeybees’ immune systems, leaving them vulnerable to infections

image of a grasshopper on a stick

How biohacked insects would actually work

 Life Science
• January 22, 2021

Backpack-wearing locusts may one day be bomb-sniffing heroes

A drawing from the United Nations, showing musicians on balconies.

What does the coronavirus sound like?

 Audio
• January 21, 2021

A scientist in Sydney turned the coronavirus genome into a musical masterpiece

Whooping crane, Grus americana, endangered species native to North America [Credit: Ryan Hagerty | CC 0]

How the Biden administration can take action for biodiversity conservation

 Environment
• January 20, 2021

Biodiversity loss represents a growing environmental threat, conservationists say

Davon Goodwin on his farm in Laurinburg, North Carolina

For Black farmers, climate change magnifies existing inequality

 Environment
• January 19, 2021

Global warming does not discriminate, but the system that prepares farmers for it does

Novel Science animation, by Niko McCarty.

Novel Science: Thinking Aloud

 Novel Science
• January 18, 2021

Does the language you speak influence your thoughts? Are you sure?

A tree infested with the tell-tale white, fluffy egg sacs of the hemlock woolly adelgid, an invasive species spreading through the Northeast U.S that can kill ecologically important hemlock trees. Credit: Nicholas A. Tonelli | CC BY 2.0

Spurred by climate change, invasive species threat looms over northeast U.S.

 Environment
• January 15, 2021

Global warming tips the scales in favor of invaders in the region

A heather blueberry plant takes up the whole frame. Small, dark blue berries dot a shrub with rounded leaves. Most leaves are bright green, some are orange and red.

The evolution of ethnobotany

 Environment
• January 13, 2021

To save the plants, one scientific field highlights the importance of protecting Indigenous knowledge

Billie Holiday with her dog, Mister in New York, 1946

AI can’t color old photos accurately. Here’s why

 Tech
• January 13, 2021

For historians, recoloring an old photograph is meticulous, time-consuming work that computer programs can’t match

Meat processed in a meat-processing facility

Go big or go home mentality leaves out small butchers and farmers

 Environment
• January 11, 2021

The pandemic has exposed and worsened deep-seated problems in a meat industry dominated by huge producers

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