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American Icons: ‘Amazing Grace’

The year’s best science books for kids have something for everyone

The best science books of 2017

An FCC vote to dismantle net neutrality is expected this week. Here’s what that means.

In DNA testing, ‘Yeti’ samples come up bears, bears, bears

Hampshire College goes 100 percent solar

Is the semitruck of the future electric?

After Cassini, where to next?

Another way to look at the fossil record? By examining coal.

For the future of self-driving technology, look to … bats?

New research finds that heading the soccer ball may be riskier for women than men

Explore the mysteries of the vascular system in Science Friday’s newest ‘Macroscope’ video

Why did passenger pigeons go extinct?

Confronting the new geopolitics of ‘net-states’

Most bees are solitary animals, and 4 other surprising bee facts

Keeping tabs on the elusive Florida panther

What’s the best way to test for partisan gerrymandering?

Not just gut bugs: Our microbiomes can even affect cancer treatments

A scientist who finds pharmaceutical promise in the venom of cone snails

In a first, scientists spotted an ‘interstellar visitor’ in our solar system

Two arachnid experts share their four favorite spider facts

What can fly, swim and dive? This tiny robotic insect.

CAPTCHAs are supposed to separate humans from robots online, but now AI can crack them

In a long-ago neutron star collision, scientists find a cosmic goldmine

Biographer Walter Isaacson, on Leonardo da Vinci’s art and science

After wildfires, health risks linger

The science behind ‘baby talk’

The Trump administration wants to put Americans back on the moon

Dr. Jane Goodall on her work with chimpanzees, and the new documentary ‘JANE’

The trouble with managing America’s wild horses

Neanderthals went extinct, but many of us still carry around fragments of their DNA

In New York, a whale of a comeback story

What you need to know about modern nuclear war

In praise of boredom: Researchers dish on the brain benefits of idle time

From Hollywood to here: ‘Rememory’ and the future of memory

We’re the biggest culprits behind wildfires. Now what?

With quick and easy malaria tests, some unexpected drawbacks

How glow worms get their glow on

How scientists are piecing together the story of ancient Americans

Dung beetles navigate using the Milky Way and other facts about ‘nature’s recyclers’

Hunting sea monsters in Kansas is easier than you might think

The black-footed ferret is making a comeback in the Great Plains

A new study tracks the ancient Roman economy using the city’s early lead plumbing

Journalist Maryn McKenna on the rise of ‘Big Chicken’ — and our current antibiotic crisis

The lab where aging aircraft are dissected for science — and safety

Florida allows any resident to challenge textbooks — and it has some science supporters concerned

Bringing science and engineering stories to life for students

Consider yourself a ‘visual’ or ‘auditory’ learner? Turns out, there’s not much science behind learning styles.

What the aye-aye and the woodpecker can tell us about how evolution works

The sweet stories of fake fruit flavors

A new study finds that after drug approvals are fast-tracked, required trials are slow to follow

What happened to the moon’s magnetic field?

How to make biometric technology more secure

New developments in human gene editing face an ethical and regulatory quagmire in the US

Why we still remember a ‘relatively’ important eclipse nearly a century later

What’s your game plan for the Great American Eclipse?

What you need to know about this month’s total solar eclipse

Native American musicians and the ‘Rumble’ beginnings of rock

The physics behind 2017’s biggest superhero movies