60-second Science

Thanks to researchers, new AI tech is delving into feline feelings to see when cats could need medical help. 

The research focused on figuring out what enables certain sperm to gain some competitive advantage over millions of others fighting for the same prize.

A long-term decline in unsupervised activity may be contributing to mental health declines in children and adolescents.

Three experts break down how misinformation and propaganda spread through conflict and how to debunk it yourself.

Fewer kids got their routine childhood vaccines since before the pandemic. Are lack of access and a loss of trust in science to blame?

The choices we make in how we adapt to climate change can sometimes come back to bite us

The Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara peoples are learning more about the missiles siloed on their lands, and that knowledge has put the preservation of their culture and heritage in even starker relief.

The missiles on the Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota make it a potential target for a nuclear attack. And that doesn’t come close to describing what the reality would be for those on the ground.

The Fort Berthold Reservation in North Dakota has had nuclear missile silos on its land for decades. Now the U.S. government wants to take the old weapons out and replace them with new ones, and it’s unclear how many living there know about that. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

15 nuclear missiles deployed in underground concrete silos across the Fort Berthold reservation in North Dakota. It took displacement and flood to get them there.

A member of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara Nation digs into a decades-long mystery: how 15 intercontinental ballistic missiles came to be siloed on her ancestral lands.

Daytime naps of about 30 minutes really improve your thinking and may spark creativity.

As interest and support for psychedelic research grows, scientists share their hopes for the future.

Psychedelic researchers are engaged in heated debate over whether the mind-altering effects of the drugs are necessary for realizing their therapeutic potential.

As companies join the hunt, can the field of mind-altering synthetic substances stay true to its original pioneering spirit of wonder, curiosity and connection?

More than half of our diet consists of foods that have been industrially processed in some way, and they may be harmful to our health

Under the right conditions, the spadefoot tadpole will transform into a voracious predator of its own species.

Lions, tigers, bears: this creature sends all of those beasts running for the hills.

Can something spring back to life if it last moved around when woolly mammoths roamed the earth? The answer appears to be yes.

In the rush to build and train ever larger AI models, developers have swept up much of the searchable Internet, quite possibly including some of your own public data—and potentially some of your private data as well.