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On this week’s show: Using ants and bees to understand aging, and keeping tempers in check on the way to Mars

A growing cadre of scientists is studying insects with extraordinary lifespans and ‘reversible’ aging patterns

Upgraded Dragonfly will study how dark matter shapes diffuse galaxies and faint tendrils of gas

The trait may have evolved independently twice

Proposed $200 million program could include limited field experiments

Company still claims powerful protection against disease but scientists want to see all the data before judging vaccine plagued by missteps

Advance could create everything from furniture to solar panels with the ease of 2D printing

New CO2-grabbing materials and tax credits could cut emissions from fossil fuel plants

Researchers are studying why a common herpesvirus suddenly took a serious toll

Image of polarized light provides insight into how cosmic beasts work

Mysterious rocks at mantle’s base tied to violent “Theia” strike 4.5 billion years ago

Expert board says company presented 'outdated information' in press release about large efficacy trial

Roche suddenly halts study of antisense treatment designed to slow or stop fatal disease

“Airfield" for test flights found just north of rover landing site

Humans are not the only primate to rescue motherless offspring

Bacterial spores hitch a ride on other microbes to deliver critical antibiotics

Researchers predict where unknown land vertebrates are hiding. Many are reptiles and amphibians

Imaging with sound could offer a less invasive way to send commands to prostheses

SARS-CoV-2 and its treatments may turn the normally harmless Aspergillus fungus deadly

Based on trial in United States and South America, company claims 79% efficacy against symptomatic COVID-19 cases for troubled but low-cost...

Infected cats and dogs experience serious symptoms, but it’s unclear whether the virus is causing them

New dates show people worked pure ore nearly 10,000 years ago around the Great Lakes

Longtime lawmaker will lead an agency returning to the Moon

Impacts on Saturn’s mysterious moon may have mixed water and organic molecules in a warm environment

Cleanup is in its early days, and some communities near the disaster are still unable to return