Science, Spoken
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Wait, How Much Microplastic Is Swirling in the Atlantic?
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The Iconic Arecibo Telescope Goes Quiet After Major Damage
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Why Do Solar Farms Kill Birds? Call in the AI Bird Watcher
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Should We Conserve Parasites? Apparently, Yes
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What If the Big Bang Was Actually a Big Bounce?
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Should Governments Slap a Tax on Plastic?
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Why Are Plants Green? The Answer Might Work on Any Planet
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Frog Eats Beetle. Beetle Crawls Through Guts to Escape
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Archaeologists Have Found the Source of Stonehenge's Boulders
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What Poetry Means for Doctors and Patients During a Pandemic
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What the Science of Animal Networks Reveals About Protests
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NASA’s Mars Rover Will Be Powered by US-Made Plutonium
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Mad Scientists Revive 100-Million-Year-Old Microbes
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These 4 Covid-19 Vaccines Are Closest to Becoming Reality
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The Sly Psychology Behind Magicians' Card Tricks
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How Quickly Can Atoms Slip, Ghostlike, Through Barriers?
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During Lockdowns, the Earth (Sort of) Stood Still
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A Billion More Tons of Plastic Could Blanket Earth by 2040
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How NASA Built a Self-Driving Car for Its Next Mars Mission
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Everything You Need to Know About the Oxford Covid-19 Vaccine
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What Happens After a ‘Million-Mile Battery’ Outlasts the Car?
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Llamas—Yes, Llamas—Could Help Us Fight Covid-19
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Your Car Is Spewing Microplastics That Blow Around the World
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Don't Talk About Covid-19's 'Waves'—This Isn't the Spanish Flu
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You Don't Need Single-Use Plastic Bags. You Need a Mask
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How to Trick Your Brain to Remember Almost Anything
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How a ‘Heat Dome’ Forms—and Why This One Is So Perilous
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Covid-19 Immunity May Rely on a Microscopic Helper: T Cells
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Covid Kills More Men Than Women. Experts Still Can’t Explain Why
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Will We Recognize Life on Mars When We See It?
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Astronomers Are Uncovering the Magnetic Soul of the Universe
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The Epic Siberian Journey to Solve a Mass Extinction Mystery
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Hummingbirds Can See Colors We Can’t Even Imagine
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Nuclear ‘Power Balls’ May Make Meltdowns a Thing of the Past
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'Carbon Farming' Could Make US Agriculture Truly Green
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NASA’s New Moon-Bound Space Suits Will Get a Boost From AI
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Stuck at Home, Scientists Discover 9 New Insect Species
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Who's to Blame for Plastic Microfiber Pollution?
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Why Massive Saharan Dust Plumes Are Blowing Into the US
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Why NASA Designed a New $23 Million Space Toilet
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The Trouble With Counting Aliens
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The Design and Science of Patio Dining During a Pandemic
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Covid-19 Is Bad. But It May Not Be the ‘Big One’
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The FDA Revokes Its Emergency Use Authorization for Hydroxychloroquine
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You Can Now Buy Spot the Robot Dog—If You’ve Got $74,500
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In Alaska, Summer's Getting Too Hot for the Salmon Run
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Astronomers Track a Fast Radio Burst to Its Source—a Magnetar
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The Covid-19 Economic Slump Is Closing Down Coal Plants
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These Bacteria Ate Their Way Through a Really Tricky Maze
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What's Confusing About Calling Covid-19 Cases ‘Asymptomatic’
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