The wonder and the ethics of deep time. The “wood-wide-web”. The claustrophobia of the Anthropocene. In our 200th episode, UNDERLAND author Robert MacFarlane takes us on a journey deep into the Earth and ourselves.
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Human-challenge trials are not without risk, but they could speed up the process.
Their success is based on us adopting a plant-based diet, too.
French newspapers report that the trial hasn’t lived up to expectations.
A global brainstorming marathon is throwing together brilliant ideas from around the world to rapidly develop solutions to combat the coronavirus pandemic.
It’s last “hard” test is over. Now, we wait for its launch. Despite numerous delays, funding crises, and technical challenges, NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is almost ready. The science instruments […]
What subjects and ideas do you discuss with your friends when you see them?
A biologist-reporter investigates his fungal namesake.
Instead of looking forward, we should be consulting the past.
Andrew Wakefield turned away from science and to the tabloids to spread his fabricated data.
A new study shows that anxiety has been rapidly increasing among young adults in the U.S. from 2008 to 2018.
We have two ways of measuring the expansion rate. Here’s the harder one. If you want to understand where our Universe came from and where it’s going, you need to measure […]
A new study enhanced color vision for individuals with the most common type of red-green color blindness.
Machine learning is a powerful and imperfect tool that should not go unmonitored.
The changes in brain structure aren’t the only bodily changes caused by zero gravity.
Admit it, caring for your pet can make you happy too. Science is working on why.
Gun violence is a public health crisis that is notoriously difficult to study because of politics. Finally, a new research initiative has the green light to collect life-saving data.
Perhaps downhill and cross-country skiers don’t face the fate of potters, typesetters and saddlers, but their situation is certainly unclear.
There are several things both men and women can do to actively boost low libido, according to research.
Medical researchers put a ring on it to learn more about the onset of COVID-19.
The water tower-shaped craft is an early prototype of Starship, which SpaceX hopes will someday send humans to Mars.
An epidemiologist explains.
What we’ve seen isn’t necessarily what we get, but the most common world doesn’t look like ours. There’s a very common myth out there in astronomy: the idea that the Sun […]
Here’s how the closest place to “hell” in our Solar System might actually be home to life. From afar, Venus seems like the most uninhabitable planet of all. NASA’s Magellan mission […]
In our Universe, a left hand reflected in a mirror or pond appears to be a right hand. While most of the laws of nature are symmetric under reflections, obeying […]
A new study found that practicing mindfulness can lower feelings of paranoia.
In such states of creative divergent thinking, the body is aroused and the pupils become dilated.
Ground-penetrating radar allows the non-invasive virtual excavation of Falerii Novi.
Researchers think they know how a group of ancient sloths, who died thousands of years ago in Ecuador, met their untimely end.
A new study from Singapore found that intermittent fasting increases neurogenesis.