A chance discovery by a NASA rover on Mars shows that the red planet has a form of lightning, which researchers had suspected ...

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Many think it's a dangerous ploy by the tobacco industry. But some say, with millions of deaths each year attributed to ...

Emily Kwong and Regina Barber of NPR's Short Wave podcast talk about the evolutionary history of kissing, how moss spores fare in space, and new clues about the collision that created the moon.

Scientists have long wondered when the domestication of dogs first started. Dogs are believed to be the first domesticated ...

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Dreams of flying? Nightmares of teeth falling out? Falling off a cliff? As a sleep scientist at the University of Montreal, ...

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Marion Nestle says we should eat "real food, processed as little as possible." Justin Chang reviews Hamnet. Mary Roach ...

Hakeem Oluseyi, host of NOVA and GBH's podcast Particles of Thought, breaks down how his show tackles some of science's biggest and strangest questions.

Food and Drug Administration officials say they will ratchet up requirements for vaccine studies, citing concerns about COVID ...