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Tune in every week for quick, fascinating new developments and dives in the world of science.

    Can Food Work as Medicine?

    Can Food Work as Medicine?

    Doctors are starting to prescribe vegetables or entire meals to ward off disease.
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    • 11 min
    Corals Are Once Again Bleaching En Masse, but Their Fate Isn’t Sealed

    Corals Are Once Again Bleaching En Masse, but Their Fate Isn’t Sealed

    Amid Earth’s fourth global coral bleaching event, a leading expert says tackling climate change is the key to fighting back.
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    • 14 min
    A Long-Awaited Climate Experiment Is Poised to Launch in the Amazon. What Will It Find?

    A Long-Awaited Climate Experiment Is Poised to Launch in the Amazon. What Will It Find?

    Ahead of a project to spray carbon dioxide into jungle plots, researchers contemplate what its results might signal about the forest’s future.
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    • 17 min
    A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon

    A Singular Climate Experiment Takes Shape in the Amazon

    After years of delay, researchers are ready to inject carbon dioxide into jungle plots.
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    • 19 min
    Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?

    Will the Amazon Help Save the Planet?

    Years in the making, 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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    • 15 min
    How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu?

    How Big a Threat Is Bird Flu?

    Cows and at least one person in the U.S. have been sickened by avian influenza. We asked experts about the risk to humans.
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