In 1958 famed feminist theorist Betty Friedan wrote an article that changed science journalism—and her career trib.al/c6xxMn4

Extracting, freezing and retransplanting slices of hormone-producing ovarian tissue could postpone menopause, but some experts say it’s not effective enough—or necessary trib.al/TEsml2C

What makes a word survive over time? trib.al/VW6XSKM

Ancestors of so-called “soft” corals may have developed bioluminescence in the earliest days of deep-ocean living trib.al/zOTIKby

Farmers in Uganda unintentionally induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat guano trib.al/2pkSdKX

At a recent workshop, researchers and journalists debated how to announce a potential discovery of extraterrestrial life trib.al/QtlGlQx

Can you assign a size to every object? Surprisingly: no trib.al/0hXpqyJ

Crime is a focus of the 2024 presidential election. It is sometimes rooted in the misplaced fears of people who live in some of the safest places trib.al/jV4p35o

Quiet! Our loud world is making us sick. trib.al/tSm3je6

Measles was practically eliminated in the U.S. Now complacency about vaccines is causing a surge in cases. trib.al/Kx9ktRb

Insertion of genetic material from a virus into the genome of a vertebrate ancestor enabled the lightning-quick electrical impulses that give animals with backbones their smarts trib.al/Mz5Ym8p

Deadly bites could surge as venomous snakes migrate into unprepared countries as the climate changes trib.al/0IE8aV9

Purple may be a likely color for extraterrestrial organisms, research suggests trib.al/lxcmp3e

A project in the Amazon rain forest is finally set to determine whether a rise in carbon dioxide could save one of the world’s largest carbon sinks.

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Is consciousness nothing more than an illusion? That idea defined the work of Daniel Dennett, a philosopher who passed away this year. trib.al/gNVRgRT

'Fauxtomation' is when an AI or robot is assisted by a human behind the curtain -- falsely inflating the value of the supposed automation scientificamerican.com/article/is-the… on Scientific American

After months of gibberish transmissions, Voyager 1 is finally communicating clearly again & I love how invested we are in this distant, 46-year-old spacecraft 😍 scientificamerican.com/article/after-… by Meghan Bartels on Scientific American

When human labor is hidden under the veneer of a robot or AI tool, that’s “fauxtomation” trib.al/vasfhHZ

By cutting trees in response to international demand for tobacco, farmers induced wildlife to start eating virus-laden bat guano trib.al/afmy49J

NASA scientists spent months coaxing the 46-year-old Voyager 1 spacecraft back into healthy communication trib.al/w8o6mwT