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A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it. (January 5, 2021: 3,206 words)
Dyanmic Duo (Winter 2020: 1,843 words)
Could an ancient megashark still lurk in the deep seas? (Fall 2020: 1,430 words)
Why do we see ghosts? (Fall 2020: 2,494 words) (error inserted post-fact-check review)
The dolls that changed the world (Summer 2020: 844 words)
Our checkered past (Summer 2020: 1,900 words)
Archaeologists and construction workers are teaming up to unearth historic relics (Spring 2020: 2,907 words)
What we learn from noisy signals from deep space (Winter 2019: 2,754 words)
What unearthing ancient cities teaches us about exploring outer space (Fall 2019: 2,626 words)
How to send messages 10,000 years into the future (Fall 2019: 1,560 words)
Rise of the Plastic Eaters (Summer 2019: 2,721 words)
Science News
How 5 universities tried to handle COVID-19 on campus (February 23, 2021: 2,716 words & six graphs)
These 6 graphs show Black scientists are underrepresented at every level (December 16, 2020: 1,565 words & six graphs)
Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics (November 12, 2020: 3,294 words)
How to make a fake supernova (November 12, 2020: six and a half minute video script & graphics)
How next-gen computer generated maps detect partisan gerrymandering (September 7, 2020: 2,220 words)
Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic? (August 15, 2020: 3,276 words)
Building playgrounds that get kids moving (April 11, 2020: 2,907 words)
To fight discrimination, the U.S. census needs a different race question (March 14, 2020: 3,327 words)
Repurposed drugs may help scientists fight the new coronavirus (March 10, 2020: 3,067 words)
For people with HIV, undetectable virus means untransmittable disease (November 23, 2019: 3,604 words)
Maryam Shanechi designs machines to read minds (October 2, 2019: 1,005 words)
Robots are becoming classroom tutors. But will they make the grade? (February 12, 2019: 3,316 words)
Young people’s memories improved when they stopped using marijuana (October 30, 2018: 511 words (post-publication))
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How aripiprazole’s promise for treating autism fell short (February 19, 2020: first pass fact-check)
The problems with prenatal testing for autism (August 14, 2019: 2,282 words)
How ‘social touch’ shapes autism traits (May 29, 2019: 3,242 words)
In search of truce in the autism wars (April 24, 2019: 3,407 words)
How to help low-income children with autism (January 16, 2019: 3,546 words)
How pregnancy may shape a child’s autism (December 5, 2018: 3,181 words)
How history forgot the woman who defined autism (November 7, 2018: 2,431 words)
Discover
What is Dark Matter Made Of? These Are the Top Candidates (December 2019: 2,905 words)
The World Has a Fertilizer Problem. Bioengineered Corn Could Save Us (November 2019: 2,794 words)
Is Planet Nine still out there? (September/October 2019: 519 words)
The Science of Science (September/October 2019: 764 words)
Peering Inside Realistic Black Holes (September/October 2019: 1,460 words)
Plate Tectonics: The Slow Dance of Our Planet's Crust (July/August 2019: 2,009 words)
Chronostratigraphy: How Scientists Unlock Deep Time (July/August 2019: 1,880 words)
Mars Doesn't Need Our Microbes: How to Keep the Red Planet Pristine (June 2019: 1,342 words)
The Real Story Behind Game of Thrones' Dragonglass (June 2019: 1,524 words)
Legacy of Lunar Data: How Apollo Revealed our Moon (June 2019: 500 words)
George Church Wants to Make Genetic Matchmaking a Reality (May 2019: 1,958 words)
Meet the T-Rex Family (April 2019 cover story: 2,100 words)
Raising the Steaks (April 2019: 2,915 words)
These Researchers Think We Can Retrain Our Brains to Tame Chronic Pain (March 2019: 3,098 words)
An Atlas of Our Cells (March 2019: 1,574 words)
Why is a Young Man Suddenly Convinced He's a Doctor? (March 2019: 1,162 words)
Making Sense of Mommy Brain (January/February 2019: 1,588 words)
State of Science: Can We Grow New Brain Cells? (January/February 2019: 224 words)
State of Science: Earth's Flora and Fauna (PRINT ONLY January/February 2019: 1,367)
Cataloging Life: Biologists’ most ambitious plan is just firing up. (PRINT ONLY January/February 2019: 1,520 words)
Wildfire Engulfed Yellowstone 30 Years Ago. Its Recovery Could Predict The Future... (December 2018 issue: 1,455 words)
Why We Feel the Need to Knock On Wood (November 2018 issue: 1,359 words)
Is Everything Old New Again? (October 2018 issue: 418 words)
Understanding the Amazon By Digging Into the Ground Beneath It (October 2018 issue: 1,140 words)
The Man Who Lost His Language Overnight (September 2018 issue: 1,334 words)
September 2018 Trending Items (PRINT ONLY September 2018 issue: 663 words)
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Ants (July/August 2018 issue: 688 words)
Milky Way (July/August 2018 issue: 649 words)
Autonomous Cars (July/August 2018 issue: 723 words)
Tumors in Real Time (May 2018 issue: 576 words)
Juno Delivers Jupiter’s Secrets (January/February 2018 issue: 220 words)
Psychedelic Drug Tapped for PTSD Therapy (January/February 2018 issue: 241 words)
Harvey Redesigns Rainfall Maps (January/February 2018 issue: 122 words)
Year in Science: Birds’ Egg Shapes Eggs-plained (PRINT ONLY January/February 2018 issue: 124 words)
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Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that (October 15, 2019: 4,591 words)
Why is it so hard to stop people dying from snakebite? (September 17, 2019: 4,035 words)
How can doctors find better ways to talk – and listen – to patients close to death? (August 27, 2019: 3,624 words)
Can vapes save the world from smoking? (July 2, 2019: 5,659 words)
What do we really know about vaping? (July 2, 2019: 635 words)
How to survive in the world’s largest refugee camp (June 4, 2019: 4,303 words)
How an Aboriginal approach to mental health is helping farmers deal with drought (April 23, 2019: 3,649)
Studying an emerging sign language won’t kill it – so what are linguists scared of? (February 26, 2019: 4,197 words)
3D printing could give you a better pill to swallow (January 29, 2019: 3,211 words)
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Canada Opens the Door to Public Scrutiny of Clinical Drug Trials (October 9, 2019: 2,019 words)
Can a New Diagnosis Help Prevent Suicide? (September 11, 2019: 2,250 words)
To Justify Using Weed, Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study (August 28, 2019: 2,776 words)
In Courtrooms, Climate Change Is No Longer Up for Debate (June 17, 2019: 1,732 words)
Knowable Magazine
Will the food of the future be genetically engineered or organic? How about both? (May 9, 2019: 2,075)
Nuclear goes retro — with a much greener outlook (February 22, 2019: 4,819 words)
Bypassing paralysis (December 4, 2018: 1,714 words)
If mammoth tusks could talk (November 18, 2018: 2,377 words)
A salamander’s dangerous liaisons (November 13, 2018: 2,264 words)
A run on the bank, 21st century style (November 5, 2018: 27 part slideshow)
Cancer Today
Cancer and the Amish (June 21, 2019: 1,738 words)
Concerns Raised About MRI Contrast Dye (June 21, 2019: 529 words)
Cancer Patients Can Now Defer Student Loans (March 21, 2019: 577 words)
The California Sunday Magazine
The Tech Revolt (January 23, 2019: fact-checked half of the as-told-to interviews as well as the story timeline)
A CIA spyplane crashed outside Area 51 a half-century ago. This explorer found it. (January 5, 2021: 3,206 words)
Dyanmic Duo (Winter 2020: 1,843 words)
Could an ancient megashark still lurk in the deep seas? (Fall 2020: 1,430 words)
Why do we see ghosts? (Fall 2020: 2,494 words) (error inserted post-fact-check review)
The dolls that changed the world (Summer 2020: 844 words)
Our checkered past (Summer 2020: 1,900 words)
Archaeologists and construction workers are teaming up to unearth historic relics (Spring 2020: 2,907 words)
What we learn from noisy signals from deep space (Winter 2019: 2,754 words)
What unearthing ancient cities teaches us about exploring outer space (Fall 2019: 2,626 words)
How to send messages 10,000 years into the future (Fall 2019: 1,560 words)
Rise of the Plastic Eaters (Summer 2019: 2,721 words)
Science News
How 5 universities tried to handle COVID-19 on campus (February 23, 2021: 2,716 words & six graphs)
These 6 graphs show Black scientists are underrepresented at every level (December 16, 2020: 1,565 words & six graphs)
Giant lasers help re-create supernovas’ explosive, mysterious physics (November 12, 2020: 3,294 words)
How to make a fake supernova (November 12, 2020: six and a half minute video script & graphics)
How next-gen computer generated maps detect partisan gerrymandering (September 7, 2020: 2,220 words)
Why do we miss the rituals put on hold by the COVID-19 pandemic? (August 15, 2020: 3,276 words)
Building playgrounds that get kids moving (April 11, 2020: 2,907 words)
To fight discrimination, the U.S. census needs a different race question (March 14, 2020: 3,327 words)
Repurposed drugs may help scientists fight the new coronavirus (March 10, 2020: 3,067 words)
For people with HIV, undetectable virus means untransmittable disease (November 23, 2019: 3,604 words)
Maryam Shanechi designs machines to read minds (October 2, 2019: 1,005 words)
Robots are becoming classroom tutors. But will they make the grade? (February 12, 2019: 3,316 words)
Young people’s memories improved when they stopped using marijuana (October 30, 2018: 511 words (post-publication))
Spectrum
How aripiprazole’s promise for treating autism fell short (February 19, 2020: first pass fact-check)
The problems with prenatal testing for autism (August 14, 2019: 2,282 words)
How ‘social touch’ shapes autism traits (May 29, 2019: 3,242 words)
In search of truce in the autism wars (April 24, 2019: 3,407 words)
How to help low-income children with autism (January 16, 2019: 3,546 words)
How pregnancy may shape a child’s autism (December 5, 2018: 3,181 words)
How history forgot the woman who defined autism (November 7, 2018: 2,431 words)
Discover
What is Dark Matter Made Of? These Are the Top Candidates (December 2019: 2,905 words)
The World Has a Fertilizer Problem. Bioengineered Corn Could Save Us (November 2019: 2,794 words)
Is Planet Nine still out there? (September/October 2019: 519 words)
The Science of Science (September/October 2019: 764 words)
Peering Inside Realistic Black Holes (September/October 2019: 1,460 words)
Plate Tectonics: The Slow Dance of Our Planet's Crust (July/August 2019: 2,009 words)
Chronostratigraphy: How Scientists Unlock Deep Time (July/August 2019: 1,880 words)
Mars Doesn't Need Our Microbes: How to Keep the Red Planet Pristine (June 2019: 1,342 words)
The Real Story Behind Game of Thrones' Dragonglass (June 2019: 1,524 words)
Legacy of Lunar Data: How Apollo Revealed our Moon (June 2019: 500 words)
George Church Wants to Make Genetic Matchmaking a Reality (May 2019: 1,958 words)
Meet the T-Rex Family (April 2019 cover story: 2,100 words)
Raising the Steaks (April 2019: 2,915 words)
These Researchers Think We Can Retrain Our Brains to Tame Chronic Pain (March 2019: 3,098 words)
An Atlas of Our Cells (March 2019: 1,574 words)
Why is a Young Man Suddenly Convinced He's a Doctor? (March 2019: 1,162 words)
Making Sense of Mommy Brain (January/February 2019: 1,588 words)
State of Science: Can We Grow New Brain Cells? (January/February 2019: 224 words)
State of Science: Earth's Flora and Fauna (PRINT ONLY January/February 2019: 1,367)
Cataloging Life: Biologists’ most ambitious plan is just firing up. (PRINT ONLY January/February 2019: 1,520 words)
Wildfire Engulfed Yellowstone 30 Years Ago. Its Recovery Could Predict The Future... (December 2018 issue: 1,455 words)
Why We Feel the Need to Knock On Wood (November 2018 issue: 1,359 words)
Is Everything Old New Again? (October 2018 issue: 418 words)
Understanding the Amazon By Digging Into the Ground Beneath It (October 2018 issue: 1,140 words)
The Man Who Lost His Language Overnight (September 2018 issue: 1,334 words)
September 2018 Trending Items (PRINT ONLY September 2018 issue: 663 words)
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Ants (July/August 2018 issue: 688 words)
Milky Way (July/August 2018 issue: 649 words)
Autonomous Cars (July/August 2018 issue: 723 words)
Tumors in Real Time (May 2018 issue: 576 words)
Juno Delivers Jupiter’s Secrets (January/February 2018 issue: 220 words)
Psychedelic Drug Tapped for PTSD Therapy (January/February 2018 issue: 241 words)
Harvey Redesigns Rainfall Maps (January/February 2018 issue: 122 words)
Year in Science: Birds’ Egg Shapes Eggs-plained (PRINT ONLY January/February 2018 issue: 124 words)
Mosaic
Urban living makes us miserable. This city is trying to change that (October 15, 2019: 4,591 words)
Why is it so hard to stop people dying from snakebite? (September 17, 2019: 4,035 words)
How can doctors find better ways to talk – and listen – to patients close to death? (August 27, 2019: 3,624 words)
Can vapes save the world from smoking? (July 2, 2019: 5,659 words)
What do we really know about vaping? (July 2, 2019: 635 words)
How to survive in the world’s largest refugee camp (June 4, 2019: 4,303 words)
How an Aboriginal approach to mental health is helping farmers deal with drought (April 23, 2019: 3,649)
Studying an emerging sign language won’t kill it – so what are linguists scared of? (February 26, 2019: 4,197 words)
3D printing could give you a better pill to swallow (January 29, 2019: 3,211 words)
Undark
Canada Opens the Door to Public Scrutiny of Clinical Drug Trials (October 9, 2019: 2,019 words)
Can a New Diagnosis Help Prevent Suicide? (September 11, 2019: 2,250 words)
To Justify Using Weed, Pregnant Women Cling to an Old and Dubious Study (August 28, 2019: 2,776 words)
In Courtrooms, Climate Change Is No Longer Up for Debate (June 17, 2019: 1,732 words)
Knowable Magazine
Will the food of the future be genetically engineered or organic? How about both? (May 9, 2019: 2,075)
Nuclear goes retro — with a much greener outlook (February 22, 2019: 4,819 words)
Bypassing paralysis (December 4, 2018: 1,714 words)
If mammoth tusks could talk (November 18, 2018: 2,377 words)
A salamander’s dangerous liaisons (November 13, 2018: 2,264 words)
A run on the bank, 21st century style (November 5, 2018: 27 part slideshow)
Cancer Today
Cancer and the Amish (June 21, 2019: 1,738 words)
Concerns Raised About MRI Contrast Dye (June 21, 2019: 529 words)
Cancer Patients Can Now Defer Student Loans (March 21, 2019: 577 words)
The California Sunday Magazine
The Tech Revolt (January 23, 2019: fact-checked half of the as-told-to interviews as well as the story timeline)