60-second Science

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.

If you’re a silphid beetle, a dead body is all your children really want, and it’s your job—no matter how difficult—to get one for them.

The dangerous virus is still here. Here’s how you can stay safe.

Sea ice is changing fast. Are forecasts created by artificial intelligence the best way to keep up with the pace of a warming climate in the far north?

Researchers have been banned from working in Indonesia’s tropical rain forests after the government disagreed with their scientific conclusions.

A needlelike tower, hung with sensors, “sniffs” the air above the Arctic Circle for signs of catastrophic thaw in the sodden ground below.

In a tiny village north of the Arctic Circle in the Northwest Territories, the Inuvialuit of Tuktoyaktuk have taken climate science into their own hands. 

What is a permafrost thaw slump? Just imagine a massive hole with an area the size of more than nine football fields—and growing—where ice-cold ground once stood.

The popular decongestant phenylephrine is not effective, an FDA panel found. Here’s what to use instead.