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Renewable EnergyNovember 11, 2025

The World’s Largest Wind Turbine Will Smash Previous Records

A planned supersized floating wind turbine with two spinning heads will generate nearly double the amount of energy as the current record-holder

You Xiaoying

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Public HealthNovember 10, 2025

Canada Just Lost Its Measles-Free Status. The U.S. Could Soon Follow

Humberto Basilio

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Artificial IntelligenceNovember 9, 2025

The Slop Cycle—How Every Media Revolution Breeds Rubbish and Art

Deni Ellis Béchard

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MedicineNovember 10, 2025

FDA Strips Health Risk Warnings from Menopause Hormone Therapy

Tanya Lewis, Lauren J. Young

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GamesNovember 11, 2025

Medium Sudoku: November 11, 2025

Special Offer: $1 for 90 Days

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Space ExplorationNovember 10, 2025

Is Space the Place for Earth’s Next Evolutionary Leap?

Lee Billings

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SchizophreniaNovember 10, 2025

Why Do Only Some People with Schizophrenia Hear Voices?

Hannah Seo

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CognitionNovember 10, 2025

Scientists See ‘Eureka’ Moments in Mathematicians’ Chalkboard Writings

Matthew Hutson

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PsychologyNovember 10, 2025

What Food Texture Teaches Us about Perception, Culture and Language

Rachel Feltman, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio

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November 2025 Issue

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Evolution

Mysterious Rocks Could Rewrite Evolution of Complex Life

Asher Elbein

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Psychology

The Slippery Slope of Ethical Collapse—And How Courage Can Reverse It

Elizabeth Svoboda

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Health

Which Anti-Inflammatory Supplements Actually Work?

Lori Youmshajekian

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Planetary Science

The Sordid Mystery of a Somalian Meteorite Smuggled into China

Dan Vergano

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Diabetes

Type 1 Diabetes Science Is Having a Moment

Jeanna Bryner

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Genetics

Diagnosing Type 1 Diabetes before Symptoms Strike

Rachel Nuwer

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Games

A robot hand reaches toward bubbles with letters in them

Spellements

Create as many words as you can!

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Math Puzzles

Stretch your math muscles with these puzzles.

A robot hand unleashes a swirl of puzzle pieces, crosswords, and circles with numbers and letters

All Games

Science inspired games, puzzles and quizzes

Special Edition

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Neuroscience

The Brain Science of Elusive ‘Aha! Moments’

John Kounios, Yvette Kounios

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Artificial Intelligence

Building Intelligent Machines Helps Us Learn How Our Brain Works

George Musser

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Neuroscience

Lifting the Veil on Near-Death Experiences

Rachel Nuwer

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Neuroscience

How the Brain ‘Constructs’ the Outside World

György Buzsáki

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Psychiatry

New Treatments Are Rewriting Our Understanding of Schizophrenia

Diana Kwon

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Sleep

The New Science of Controlling Lucid Dreams

Michelle Carr

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Podcasts

A spiral dollop of mayonnaise on a white background with the words overlaid on the mayo reading "the great mayo debate"

November 10, 2025

What Food Texture Teaches Us about Perception, Culture and Language

Rachel Feltman, Kendra Pierre-Louis, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio

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PainNovember 7, 2025

Why Headaches Remain One of Medicine’s Most Misunderstood Disorders

Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio

An illustration of personified dots each having one googly eye with most being blue and green clumped in a group to the right looking at the lone red dot with a "no" speech bubbled emanating from it.

PsychologyNovember 5, 2025

Why We Struggle to Say No—And How to Get Better at It

Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio

Cars submerged in mud following Hurricane Melissa in Haiti.

WeatherNovember 3, 2025

Hurricane Melissa Was One of the Strongest Atlantic Storms Ever. Here’s Why

Rachel Feltman, Andrea Thompson, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura

An illustration of a cartoonish stomach halved to expose the pile of halloween candy inside it with cartoon ghosts floating down and out of the gastrointestinal tracks leading into and out of the stomach.

FoodOctober 31, 2025

Gut Reactions to Your Favorite Halloween Candy

Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi, Alex Sugiura, Jeffery DelViscio

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CognitionNovember 10, 2025

Scientists See ‘Eureka’ Moments in Mathematicians’ Chalkboard Writings

Researchers spot the “tipping point” before mathematicians’ moments of discovery

Matthew Hutson

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AnimalsNovember 7, 2025

This Cave Holds a Spider Web ‘Megacity’ the Size of Half a Tennis Court

This finding is the first documented case of colonial behavior between two solitary species of spider

Humberto Basilio

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PsychologyNovember 1, 2025

How Childhood Relationships Affect Your Adult Attachment Style, according to Large New Study

A large new study reveals how early relationships with parents and friends influence how we relate to those closest to us in adulthood

Rachel Nuwer

sound waves going into an ear, close up

SchizophreniaNovember 10, 2025

Why Do Only Some People with Schizophrenia Hear Voices?

New research aims to tease out what exactly is happening in the brains of people with schizophrenia who have auditory hallucinations

Hannah Seo

Three astronauts in spacesuits but no helmets wave as they walk by

Space ExplorationNovember 7, 2025

China's Stranded Astronauts Show the Dangers of Space Junk

Three Chinese astronauts will likely return safely to Earth after a reported space-junk strike. But the incident highlights the growing risk of orbital debris

Humberto Basilio

A spiral galaxy seen in full color against a black-speckled grey background. A black stream extends nearly straight up from the galaxy.

AstronomyNovember 8, 2025

Rubin Observatory Discovers Surprise ‘Tail’ on Iconic Galaxy

The first image from the Vera C. Rubin telescope reveals a previously unnoticed feature of the galaxy M61 that may explain its mysterious properties

Jenna Ahart, Nature magazine

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