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  1. career
    How NASA’s Chief Scientist Manages Climate Anxiety“We understand our planet better than we have before and continue to learn about it every day. So I focus on the hope that science brings.”
    By Sarah Sloat
  2. career
    Susan Butts Is Living Your Childhood Dream JobThe paleontologist at the Yale Peabody Museum manages millions of fossils, some of which are a billion years old.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  3. health
    Could Magic Mushrooms Be the Drug to Finally Cure Eating Disorders?For young patients, lasting treatment can feel elusive. Psychedelics could change that.
    By Megan Zhang
  4. food drama
    Not Even Dark Chocolate Is SafeDark chocolate can contain potentially unsafe levels of lead and cadmium, according to a new report.
    By Olivia Truffaut-Wong
  5. extremely online
    I Can’t Shut Up About How Rats Can DanceA new study found that rodents have rhythm.
    By Mia Mercado
  6. much to think about
    Big Sean Vexed by Big QuestionsScience has confirmed what the rapper has long sensed is true: Earth’s rotation is speeding up.
    By Claire Lampen
  7. obsessions
    NASA Wants to Send Nudes to SpaceHouston, are you flirting with me?
    By Mia Mercado
  8. science
    Sorry About the Deadly Pandemic, Here’s a WormScientists have named a new flatworm after COVID which is … cool, I guess.
    By Mia Mercado
  9. science
    Give Me the Goth Space DiamondSotheby’s is expected to sell the 555.55-carat black diamond for at least $6.8 million.
    By Mia Mercado
  10. smooth brain
    Celebrity Obsession Linked to Lower Intelligence, Nerds SayA recent study is calling me stupid?
    By Mia Mercado
  11. studies show
    Don’t Call Skateboarding at 50 a Midlife CrisisA new study claims skateboarding can help middle-aged people through depression, stress, and loneliness.
    By Danielle Cohen
  12. disappointment
    Scientist Makes Phone for Her Dog, Dog Never AnswersAnd most of his calls were butt-dials.
    By Mia Mercado
  13. bloody hell
    Maybe It’s Moderna, Maybe It’s MenopauseHow medicine’s failure to take periods seriously fuels vaccine hesitancy and misinformation.
    By Annaliese Griffin
  14. space!
    Come at Me, BroBennu the asteroid will reportedly whiz by in 2135, which is … not soon enough.
    By Claire Lampen
  15. killers among us
    Actually, This Flower Prefers to Eat FleshA killer has been hiding in plain sight.
    By Claire Lampen
  16. how i get it done
    How Cosmologist Janna Levin Makes Space for Big IdeasWhen she’s not teaching, writing, running the Science Studios at the Pioneer Works cultural center and captaining her digital magazine, The Broadcast.
    By Jane Starr Drinkard
  17. good riddance
    Naomi Wolf’s Anti-Vaxx Tweets Just Got Her Account SuspendedAmong other wild falsehoods, the author called vaccines a “software platform that can receive uploads.”
    By Mia Mercado
  18. i believe
    Sounds to Me Like There Are Definitely AliensA new government report says it can’t prove UFO sightings aren’t aliens, so …
    By Mia Mercado
  19. hmm
    Grimes Is Giving Us a Lot to Think AboutCan you decipher these comments on communism and AI?
    By Mia Mercado
  20. nooo
    Bad News: Cicadas Pee a LotAs if we haven’t suffered enough.
    By Mia Mercado
  21. okay!
    And Now, a Fungus That Causes Cicadas’ Butts to Fall OffIt’s called Massospora and it is insidious.
    By Claire Lampen
  22. bugs
    The Cicadas Are HereTrillions of small insects, recognizable by their buzzing mating call, are starting to emerge for the first time in nearly two decades.
    By Amanda Arnold
  23. don’t panic
    Hopefully You Won’t Be Crushed by Space Debris This WeekendExperts don’t know exactly where a 23-ton Chinese rocket part will land.
    By Mia Mercado
  24. science
    LEAVE HER ALONE!!Scientists have proposed sending a bunch of the sperm to the moon. Has she not been through enough?
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  25. space!
    Enterprising Little Robot Lands on MarsNASA’s Perseverance rover has arrived on the Red Planet. Please clap.
    By Claire Lampen
  26. climate crisis
    Yet Another Terrifying, Deadly, Once-in-a-Lifetime StormExtreme weather in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. has left at least 20 dead and millions without power. This is our new normal under climate change.
    By Bridget Read
  27. public health
    How Worried Should We Be About the Coronavirus Variants?The Cut spoke with Michael Worobey, a professor of evolutionary biology at the University of Arizona who studies the evolution of flu viruses.
    By Amanda Arnold
  28. animals
    Finally, Science Has Allowed Us to Gaze Upon a Dinosaur’s OrificeA paleontologist says the newly discovered dinosaur butthole specimen is “perfect” and “unique.”
    By Amanda Arnold
  29. fashion
    A Dress Made Out of Beautiful Green AlgaeThe One X One incubator program marries science and fashion.
    By Andrew Nguyen
  30. science
    The ‘Ugliest Orchid in the World’ Doesn’t Need Your ApprovalThe new flower, discovered in the forests of Madagascar, might not be described as a looker, but she brings so much more to the ecosystem.
    By Amanda Arnold
  31. coronavirus
    ‘I Feel Like Healing Is Coming’The surprisingly emotional experience of watching someone receive one of the first COVID-19 vaccines in the U.S.
    By Bridget Read
  32. health
    The First COVID-19 Vaccines Are Going Out TodayPfizer is sending out 2.9 million doses this week.
    By Amanda Arnold
  33. how i get it done
    How A Vaccine Whisperer Gets It DoneAs the founder of the Vaccine Confidence Project, a nonprofit monitoring and addressing public trust in vaccines, Heidi Larson has never been busier.
    By Katie Heaney
  34. nature
    Tall Queen Revealed to Be Even TallerCongrats to her!
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  35. germs
    Well, at Least We’re Less Disgusting NowThe coronavirus has certainly changed our hygiene habits for the better.
    By Amanda Arnold
  36. science
    Scientists Are Just Sticking Platypuses Under Black LightWhy, you might ask? I’m still not sure.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  37. coronavirus news
    Pfizer Says Its COVID Vaccine May Be 90 Percent EffectiveThe news is exciting, but experts warn that the findings haven’t been peer-reviewed yet.
    By Amanda Arnold
  38. space
    Astronomers Discover … Earth??A horrifying hell planet whipping through space? Sounds very familiar.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  39. climate crisis
    But Wait, There’s Also Terrible Climate NewsThe warming sea may now be releasing huge deposits of methane — which heats the atmosphere at a rate 80 times stronger than carbon dioxide.
    By Bridget Read
  40. how i get it done
    How a MacArthur ‘Genius’ Scientist Gets It DonePolina V. Lishko’s work could change the future of birth control.
    By Katie Heaney
  41. coronavirus news
    The FDA Has Officially Approved the First Coronavirus TreatmentThe anti-viral drug remdesivir has passed the agency’s regulatory standards.
    By Amanda Arnold
  42. let them live
    Let the Paleontologists Cyber If They WantAn overzealous filter prevented paleontologists from using words like bone, pubic, and stream at an online conference.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  43. health
    Remdesivir Has ‘Little or No Effect’ in Reducing COVID DeathsThe WHO found that the drug — which Trump was treated with — does not reduce mortality rates or time spent in the hospital.
    By Madeleine Aggeler
  44. science
    Two Women Have Won the Nobel Prize in ChemistryEmmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer Doudna have been recognized for “rewriting the code of life.”
    By Hannah Gold
  45. animals
    In New Mexico, the Birds Are Dying at Alarming RatesAnd wildlife experts don’t know exactly why.
    By Claire Lampen
  46. climate crisis
    We’re Getting Far Too Used to Living in HellThe dull horror of watch the world burn over social media.
    By Bridget Read
  47. asteroid
    An Asteroid Is Headed for Earth Just Before Election DayIncredible timing.
    By Claire Lampen
  48. sigh
    Is the Moon Fed Up With Us?She’s retreating from the Earth at a rate of an inch and a half per year.
    By Bridget Read
  49. extremely online
    This Scientist Twitter Drama Is WildMeTooStem founder BethAnn McLaughlin admitted to inventing a colleague and saying she’d died of COVID-19.
    By Hannah Gold
  50. demands
    Just Show Us the Aliens AlreadyPlease, no more vague hints from the government that UFOs are real.
    By Bridget Read
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