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What Made the Titan Submersible Design Unconventional?

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This Fungus Is Spreading Rapidly in Hospitals

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Interview: The Animal Translator with Erich Jarvis

Interview: Brain Guru with Heather Berlin

Interview: Bob and Mike’s Big Idea with Bob Hazen and Mike Wong

Interview: Black Hole Badass with Janna Levin

Interview: The Deepfake Detective with Hany Farid

Interview: Mind of a Fossil Hunter with Kirk Johnson

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Sands of Time

Keepers of the Coastline

Tides of Tradition

Standing the Heat

Megadroughts and Indigenous Voices

Harvesting the Future

Sea Change: Survival in the Gulf of Maine

Sea Change: Peril in the Gulf of Maine

Sea Change: Bounty in the Gulf of Maine

When Whales Could Walk (Español)

Ancient Builders of the Amazon (Español)

Ancient Maya Metropolis (Español)

Picture a Scientist (with Audio Description)

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A Labyrinth of Lava

From Mud to Rock

Finding Stromatolites

Stromatolites Were Kings

Ancient Life

Millions of Years Captured in Chalk

A Fourteen-Foot Fish From Kansas

Hell Creek Formation

No Dinosaurs Above the Line

Mammal Survivors

Dinosaur Fossils

King of Gore

Driving Dinosaur Diversity

Pangea

Making Granite From Volcanic Rock

A Massive Volcanic Eruption

Rock Time Capsules

The Sandstone Top of the Canyon

Fossil-Filled Limestone

The Grand Canyon's Oldest Rocks

From Lava to Land

Semi-Precious Pebbles

Five Steps of Volcanic Rock

Tearing North America Apart

Fossilized Sand Dunes

Volcanoes of Sand

Rockies 2.0

Manhattan Schist

Manhattan Skyline

New York's Mountains

Mendenhall Glacier