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Researchers investigate the role of “big gods” in the foundation of large-scale human communities".

Doctors and researchers are working to better understand the long-term complications of chemotherapy and radiation, and even prevent them".

For the first time, researchers observe exact facial mimicry outside humans and primates".

Newly funded 4-year program aims to better define research questions about free will and bring more rigor to its study".

MU69’s flat lobes support a new theory of planetary formation".

Faint “microseisms” may help scientists understand the Red Planet’s subsurface".

New study could help explain a rise in the disease among young people".

On this week’s show: A new radio telescope promises to help sort out the more than 40 theories for the origins of fast radio bursts and researchers tackle the long-term health effects of pediatric cancer treatment".

Rising price tag trims money from other missions".

Study fills in surprising history of Iberian Peninsula over thousands of years".

Scientists claim it’s the best evidence to date, but critics are skeptical".

On this week’s show: the environmental costs of deep-sea mining and a trip to the distant asteroid Ryugu".

Recommendation opens door to plants and animals produced using CRISPR and similar techniques".

President’s 2020 request would shrink $8 billion agency to where it was in 2012".

Scientists probe cellular hideouts for HIV and show that CRISPR can still cut the AIDS virus from DNA in monkeys".

The World Health Organization should also step up governance of human genome-editing research, group says".

New study imagines how we might see shiny alien debris".

Bennu’s boulders, ejection plumes shift mission plans".

But does this subconscious sense help us find our way?".

Research agency wants famed advisory group to look at balancing national security and open science".