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Most Microbial Species Are “Dark Matter”

Violent Drug Cartels Stifle Mexican Science

How Beauty Is Making Scientists Rethink Evolution

Guam’s ecological fate is in the hands of the U.S. military

The Mass Extinction Detectives: No One Knows How the Dinosaurs Rose to Dominate the Planet, but the Answers May Lie Within a Mysterious Mass Extinction That Wiped Out Their Competition

Mosquito-trapping balloons could help us understand one of the world’s deadliest diseases

Screened at Birth: The science of newborn gene sequencing

Scientists Set Up a Haunted Lab to Figure Out Why We Like Being Scared

In India, Breast Cancer Screening Goes High-Tech

How to Stop Poaching and Protect Endangered Species? Forget the ‘Kingpins’

From Fish to Humans, A Microplastic Invasion May Be Taking a Toll

Fast-Tracking Drug Approvals at the FDA

¿Comó se llama? How Birds Get Their Spanish Names

Think 2018 Will Be the Hottest Year on Record? I’ll Bet $78.46 You’re Wrong

Sticky Business: Will Taxes on Sugary Sodas Help to Dilute America’s Cardiometabolic Crisis?

Black Hole Firewalls Could Be Too Tepid to Burn

Autism Can Mask the Warning Signs of Suicide

ER Intervention Curbs Suicide Attempts in Short Term

To Reduce Long-Term Health Gaps, a Push for Early Intervention in Juvenile Detention

Rhino Embryos Made in Lab to Save Nearly Extinct Subspecies

Even the clothes you donate probably end up in a landfill

Finally we can power the planet on renewables alone – here’s how

Beekeepers are stealing each other’s hives to survive the cutthroat industry

A New World’s Extraordinary Orbit Points to Planet Nine