The Pigeon Puzzle: How Do They Figure Out Their Impossibly Long Routes Home?
You might consider them flying rats, but their odysseys stump scientists
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Smell You Later: The Weird Science of How Sweat Attracts
Smell is often dismissed as the least important sense. But it’s the funk that draws us together
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Affected Development: Will Kids Ever Recover from Isolation?
For many children, our panicked pandemic lives are the only lives they’ve ever known
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Having More Nightmares Lately? You’re Not Alone
Swarms of bugs, inescapable crowds, and moments of maskless horror are the new normal. Will we ever sleep soundly again?
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Blue Space Is the New Green Space
Why being near water can be a boon for our health and wellness
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Blah Blah Blah: The Lack of Small Talk Is Breaking Our Brains
Chit-chat is often dismissed as mindless and boring. But its absence over the past year is affecting you more than you think
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Space Is Not a Frontier
We’ve barely addressed the legacies of colonialism and racism on Earth. Must we now export these things to the stars?
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The Wild, Wild West of Space Law
The world’s richest men are fielding their own cosmic missions. Who will make sure they behave?
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Space Junk Is a Bigger Extraterrestrial Threat than Little Green Men
And it’s a menace to spacecraft, satellites, and even our modern way of life
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Invasion of the Ticks
Inside the quest to track one of humanity’s tiniest deadly predators
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