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11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

New Icy Body Hints at Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto

A Powerful, 100x Smaller Particle Collider Could Be On The Horizon

A Quantum Computer Has Been Hooked Up to the Cloud For the First Time

Entangled Light Microscope Could Sharpen Focus for Biology Researchers

A Step Closer to Artificial Intelligence with CAPTCHA-Solving Tech

A String of Supernovae May Have Caused Earth’s Recent Ice Ages

Ancient Microcontinent Discovered in Indian Ocean

For More Accurate Forecasts, Follow the Fish

Another Approach to Efficient Solar Power

What Does Music Look Like?

Meet Fermilab's New Director

Why Can't We Prevent An Asteroid Strike?

Australia Wasn't Found By Accident, Study Suggests

Basic Computer Logic Built By Splitting Viral Gene

Beams of Light Could Steer Future Spaceships

"BigBrain" a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind

The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics

BRAIN Initiative Launches

Building a New Society in Space

Using Butterfly Wings as a Template for Nanotech

Cars Driving Change in Cliff Swallows

Cassini Captures Earth From Afar

CERN Details Precursor to Anti-Gravity Experiments

Climate Change Is Making Apples Soft

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

7 Ways the Government Shutdown is Hurting Science

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

New Icy Body Hints at Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto

Entangled Light Microscope Could Sharpen Focus for Biology Researchers

A Venus "Glory," a Diamond Messenger, and a Tiger Scat Sample: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Virus Could Restore Natural Hearing in Deaf People

A Watery, Extraterrestrial Ocean Is Submerged Beneath Enceladus's Blankets of Ice

The Simple Medical Diagnostics That Are Changing Healthcare

250-dB Blasts Used for Oil Prospecting Could Affect Endangered Whale

Planting Prairies at Airports Could Make Flying Safer

The Alzheimer’s Breakthrough That’s Been Missing Until Now—The Third Dimension

Alzheimer's, Icelanders, and Ebola: NOVA Next Week in Review

Glimmers of Hope Before an Alzheimer’s Epidemic

This “Energy Ribbon” is Helping Astronomers Map the Solar System’s Frontier

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

An Icy Neutrino Observatory

Ancient Martian Freshwater Lake May Have Supported Life

Anxiety May Be Passed Down to Later Generations

Are Wormholes Everywhere?

An Intergalactic GPS System

Ancient DNA Recovered From Deep Sea Floor

For More Accurate Forecasts, Follow the Fish

Another Approach to Efficient Solar Power

What Does Music Look Like?

Meet Fermilab's New Director

How Engineers Use Ground Freezing to Build Bigger, Safer, and Deeper

Why Can't We Prevent An Asteroid Strike?

Australia Wasn't Found By Accident, Study Suggests

Babies Are Born to Count

Beams of Light Could Steer Future Spaceships

"BigBrain" a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind

Bat-Inspired Tech Could Help Blind People See with Sound

The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics

BRAIN Initiative Launches

Building a New Society in Space

Using Butterfly Wings as a Template for Nanotech

Ancient Microcontinent Discovered in Indian Ocean

Basic Computer Logic Built By Splitting Viral Gene

Computers making inroads in field of mathematics

Concerns Over Plan to Save Dead Sea

Curiosity Rover to Hibernate During Solar Storm

Deep Underground, Worms and 'Zombie Microbes' Rule

Designer Creates Line of Drone-Proof Garments

Mapping the Microbiome

Fact Sheet on Methane Hydrates

Flammable Ice An Energy Coup for Japan

Going Blind: The Coming Satellite Crisis

The Higgs Boson…or a Higgs Boson?

Shrinking Snow Means Steep Slide for Ski Industry

Hubble Sees Galaxy Shaped Like Video Game Character

Inside North Korea's Environmental Collapse

Japan's Tohoku Earthquake Heard From Space

Long Live Neurons

Millionaire's Mission to Mars

New York Times Chases the Higgs Boson

How Dumb Are Drones?

Physicists Discover Why MP3s Sound Worse

Plants Dose Bees with Caffeine to Keep Them Coming Back

Proposed Brain Map Faces Hurdles

Rats Scratch and Sniff To Detect Landmines

Return of the Neanderthals

The Friendly Wolf that Confused Darwin

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

A Fuming Glacier National Park Faces Long-Term Consequences

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

A Fuming Glacier National Park Faces Long-Term Consequences

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

New Icy Body Hints at Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto

A Powerful, 100x Smaller Particle Collider Could Be On The Horizon

A Quantum Computer Has Been Hooked Up to the Cloud For the First Time

Anxiety May Be Passed Down to Later Generations

What Does Music Look Like?

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

7 Ways the Government Shutdown is Hurting Science

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

New Icy Body Hints at Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto

Entangled Light Microscope Could Sharpen Focus for Biology Researchers

A Trash Bin Marks the True Location of the Greenwich Meridian, 334 Feet to the East

A Unique Perfume-Cloud of Bacteria Follows You Wherever You Go

A Venus "Glory," a Diamond Messenger, and a Tiger Scat Sample: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Virus Could Restore Natural Hearing in Deaf People

A Watery, Extraterrestrial Ocean Is Submerged Beneath Enceladus's Blankets of Ice

Ancient Microcontinent Discovered in Indian Ocean

For More Accurate Forecasts, Follow the Fish

Another Approach to Efficient Solar Power

Anxiety May Be Passed Down to Later Generations

What Does Music Look Like?

Meet Fermilab's New Director

Are Wormholes Everywhere?

How Engineers Use Ground Freezing to Build Bigger, Safer, and Deeper

Why Can't We Prevent An Asteroid Strike?

Australia Wasn't Found By Accident, Study Suggests

Babies Are Born to Count

Basic Computer Logic Built By Splitting Viral Gene

Beams of Light Could Steer Future Spaceships

"BigBrain" a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

A Human-Like Menstrual Cycle Has Been Discovered in the Spiny Mouse

New Icy Body Hints at Planet Lurking Beyond Pluto

A Powerful, 100x Smaller Particle Collider Could Be On The Horizon

A Quantum Computer Has Been Hooked Up to the Cloud For the First Time

Entangled Light Microscope Could Sharpen Focus for Biology Researchers

A String of Supernovae May Have Caused Earth’s Recent Ice Ages

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

Flower's False Pollen Lures Unwitting Bees To Do Its Bidding

A Get-Smart Pill, With Side Effects

A Giant Peat Bog, A Horned Oryx, and A Deep Brain Stimulation Accident: NOVA Next Week in Review

Prosthetic Legs, Deadly Black Holes, and 250-dB Blasts: NOVA Next Week in Review

Ancient Microcontinent Discovered in Indian Ocean

For More Accurate Forecasts, Follow the Fish

Another Approach to Efficient Solar Power

What Does Music Look Like?

Meet Fermilab's New Director

How Engineers Use Ground Freezing to Build Bigger, Safer, and Deeper

Why Can't We Prevent An Asteroid Strike?

Australia Wasn't Found By Accident, Study Suggests

Babies Are Born to Count

Basic Computer Logic Built By Splitting Viral Gene

Beams of Light Could Steer Future Spaceships

"BigBrain" a Small Step Toward Mapping Human Mind

Bat-Inspired Tech Could Help Blind People See with Sound

The Boring and Exciting World of Biometrics

BRAIN Initiative Launches

Building a New Society in Space

Using Butterfly Wings as a Template for Nanotech

Did Facebook HQ Start the #10YearChallenge?

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

A Quantum Computer Has Been Hooked Up to the Cloud For the First Time

A String of Supernovae May Have Caused Earth’s Recent Ice Ages

A Trash Bin Marks the True Location of the Greenwich Meridian, 334 Feet to the East

A Unique Perfume-Cloud of Bacteria Follows You Wherever You Go

11,676 Tree Species Found in the Amazon

12 New Types Added to Cloud Atlas, First in 30 Years

Should We Study Human Embryos Beyond 14 Days?

1980s Pop Song Reveals Fractal Rhythms of the Human Mind

1980s Soviet Mind Game Might Help Treat PTSD

$20 Million Xprize Wants to Eliminate Waste Carbon Dioxide

2016: Earth's Warmest Year on Record Since 1880

We Lost a Florida's Worth of Tropical Forests in 2017

Why Was 2017’s Hurricane Season So Intense?

Watching the 2017 Solar Eclipse

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough

Custom Organs, Printed to Order

3D Printed Pills Could Bring Bespoke Drugs to a Hospital Near You

3D Printing Pizza in Space

3D Woven Synthetic Cartilage Could Help Your Knees Replace Themselves

4.4 Billion-Year-Old Crystal Is Oldest Piece of the Earth's Crust

40 Million Years Before the Asteroid Hit, Dinosaurs Were Already On the Decline

47 Genes That Might Help Us Help Vulnerable Trees Survive Climate Change

7 Species of Whale Have Been Found Mourning Their Dead

7 Ways the Government Shutdown is Hurting Science

76% of All Plastic Ever Made Has Already Been Discarded

800 Trillion Plastic Microbeads Go Down Drains Every Day

Still Digging for Opportunity, Ten Years Later

Diamond Traps Rare Mineral, Brings to the Surface Tantalizing Clues from the Deep

A Drug-Delivering DNA Nanobot Computer, Built Inside a Cockroach

A Fuming Glacier National Park Faces Long-Term Consequences

In 2020, the Latest Mars Rover Will Land on Jezero Crater

3,000-Year-Old Dung Adds Fresh Fuel to King Solomon Debate

This 33-Million-Year-Old Whale Sucked Up Food Like A Giant Vacuum

360° Dive into a Black Hole

3D Chemistry Leads to Potential Malaria Breakthrough