Why the Perfect Red Is Impossible to Make

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Why Don’t We Use Mothballs Anymore?

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4 Things We Can Learn From Explosions

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What’s Ruining Our Ruins?

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These Rocks Are Older Than the Sun

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Why You Should Get Your DNA Sequenced After You Die

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Those Ancient Giant Fungi Weren’t Fungi After All

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What's Really Living in the Subway

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6 Ways Animals Pee Weird

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Do Penguins Control the Weather?

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LSD May Lead to a New Kind of Medicine

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Is the Secret to Treating Schizophrenia in... Engineering?

Most of the medicines we have for treating mental illness adjust the level of brain chemicals like serotonin and dopamine. But that doesn't work for everyone. So Duke researcher Kafui Dzirasa, who tra

The Fungus You Should Actually Be Worried About

As the planet warms, a dangerous fungus called cryptococcus has been adapting to higher temperatures. That isn't great for humans because our body heat is one of our primary defenses against the patho

Field Trips Season 2 Trailer

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Cameroon’s Deadly Lake Bomb Has Been Defused

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That Time We Put Spiders in VR

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The World’s Best Diet Doesn’t Make You Lose Weight

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Can Baldness Be Reversed?

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Why It's So Hard to Make Artificial Cork

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Where Is Love Stored in the Body?

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Why People Thought "Aliens" Made These Rocks

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Why We Can’t Find a Legal Limit for Weed

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The Weirdest New Battery is... Rust

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Axolotls Are In Danger. Here's Why That's Bad For YOU.

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Shingles Vaccines Prevent Dementia

For decades, scientists have known that there was a weird link between shingles and dementia. But recent studies have made the connection clearer than ever—and established that the shingles vaccine ma

You Actually Can Get Rid of Forever Chemicals

If you’ve used non-stick cookware recently or bought water-resistant clothes, you might have heard about PFAS, or “forever chemicals.” And while it is very hard to break down the PFAS polluting our en

5 Weird Windows of the Future.

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