Apothecaries founded this famous garden—one of the most ancient botanical gardens in Europe—to teach their students which plants poison and which plants cure.

In This Ancient Garden, Plants Can Cure or Kill You

Here’s how scientists are planning on getting underground fungi data from space using satellites.

The Fungi Economy, Part 3: Can Climate Modeling from Space Save Our Forests?

Atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to “buy” nutrients from fungi in the soil. To find out where this economy will go next, the devil is in the details. And the details are in the dirt.

The Fungi Economy, Part 2: Here's How Plants and Fungi Trade beneath Our Feet

Like us, plants and fungi have complex economies. By burning fossil fuels, we’ve been devaluing their currency.

The Fungi Economy, Part 1: Just like Us, Trees Are Experiencing Inflation

Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds.

Could Weight-Loss Drugs Curb Addiction? Your Health, Quickly, Episode 12

Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff.

How to Roll a Joint Perfectly, according to Science

New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body.

Here's How AI Can Predict Hit Songs With Frightening Accuracy

Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”

Here's Why Actors Are So Worried about AI

A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.

Are You a Lucid Dreamer?

Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

Here's What 'Oppenheimer' Gets Right--And Wrong--About Nuclear History

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Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress

How Stress Messes With Your Gut

Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work.

Should We Care About AI's Emergent Abilities?

Very small delays in swing jazz point to our evolution as a supremely auditory species.

What That Jazz Beat Tells Us about Hearing and The Brain

Was a teenager named Alessandra Giliani the Western world’s first female anatomist? In 14th-century Italy, women were strictly barred from medical research. One flouted that rule—disguised as a man.

Who Was Alessandra Giliani, 14th-Century Teen Anatomist?

New research has discovered that wildfire smoke hurts these primates’ voice—and health.

Just like People, Orangutans Get Smoker's Voice

ChatGPT and other AI programs can offer medical advice. But how good are they?

Doctor AI Will See You Now

The famous climate pattern El Niño could usher in a new hottest year on record and will have domino effects on the world’s weather.

El Niño is Back. What Does That Mean For You?

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation. This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation. <br>This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.

The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]

Researchers, using the galaxy as a detector, believe they have detected gravitational waves from monster black holes for the first time.

The Universe Is Abuzz with Giant Gravitational Waves, and Scientists Just Heard Them (Maybe)

Toxic dust plagues marginalized communities on the shores of this disappearing salt lake.

Poisons and Perils on the Salton Sea

Love this podcast. Quick hits on quirky science. Good topics, pitched at a good level, well-written (and read).

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Human hair tested stronger than thicker fibers from elephants, boars and giraffes, providing clues to materials scientists hoping to make superstrong synthetic fibers.

Superstrong Fibers Could Be Hairy Situation

Algorithms are already used to remove online hate speech. Now scientists have taught an AI to respond—which they hope might spark more discourse. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Artificial Intelligence Learns to Talk Back to Bigots

Researchers activated specific brain cells in zebra finches to teach them songs they’d ordinarily have to hear to learn.

Implanting Memories in Birds Reveals How Learning Happens

The Murchison meteorite, which screamed to Earth 50 years ago, carried with it stardust that's seven billion years old. Christopher Intagliata reports.

Meteorite Contains Material Older Than Earth

Here are a few brief reports about international science and technology from around the world, including one from the Democratic Republic of the Congo about a toad that has evolved coloring that makes it look like a deadly snake’s head.

Science News Briefs from All Over

Researchers tracked thousands of individual ants to determine how they move in vast numbers without stumbling into gridlock.

Ant Colonies Avoid Traffic Jams

In an analysis of chess and tennis matches, players rising in the rankings did better than expected against higher-ranked opponents and better than similarly ranked players who were not rising.

Ranking Rise May Intimidate Opponents

Soil bacteria may have taken residence in early algal species, gifting the algae with the ability to withstand drier conditions on land. Annie Sneed reports.

Bacteria Helped Plants Evolve to Live on Land

The diets of coyotes vary widely, depending on whether they live in rural, suburban or urban environments—but pretty much anything is fair game.

Coyotes Eat Everything from Fruits to Cats

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