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Visitors can get closer to wildlife than ever, but the San Diego Zoo Wildlife Alliance's impact goes far beyond the savanna.

Public health officials are concerned about increasing polarization among Americans over vaccines.

Twenty-five years after the publication of his groundbreaking first book, Malcolm Gladwell returns with a brand-new volume that reframes the lessons of "The Tipping Point" in a startling and revealing light. Gladwell traces the rise of a new and troubling form of social engineering through a series of riveting stories in his latest work, Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Supereaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering. With his characteristic mix of storytelling and social science, Gladwell offers a guide to making sense of the contagions of the modern world. In this provocative new work, he returns to the subject of social epidemics and tipping points, this time with the aim of explaining the dark side of contagious phenomena. Visit: https://www.ticketmaster.com/event/0A006118ADEC4356 Malcom Gladwell on Instagram and Facebook

Staffers began receiving termination notices this morning as part of a major restructuring at HHS. Some senior leadership are on their way out too.

Indigo—a varied plant family that grows worldwide and the deep, blue dye it produces—has a long and multifaceted history of cultivation, production, and distribution. "Blue Gold" combines science, craft, and history to explore this color’s complex past and present. Indigo’s beauty and ubiquity have eclipsed the unpleasant realities of its growth and manufacture, including hard labor and pollution, and its association with colonialism and slavery. As a pigment, indigo has been assigned protective properties, healing powers, and dangerous qualities that have shaped its uses in craft and the arts. The exhibition highlights the roles of botany, chemistry, medicine, ecology, and economics in indigo cultivation. Contemporary craftspeople and artists working with indigo, such as Laura Kina and Porfirio Gutierrez, address questions about the sustainability of indigo, its problematic legacies, and technological alternatives to manual processing. Closed Mondays / Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Saturday, & Sunday from 10 to 5 p.m. / Fridays from 10 to 8 p.m. Mingei International Museum on Facebook / Instagram

To get so close, the Parker Solar Probe had to withstand the sun's extreme heat and radiation like no spacecraft before it.

Among the latest health hacks to go viral on TikTok is the idea of a short, post-dinner "fart walk" to aid digestion. Turns out, the science on this trend is solid, and so are the health benefits.

Game studios have cranked out surprising hits ranging from cooperative platformers to historical epics. NPR staff and contributors round up the latest from a promising 2025.

Migrating hundreds and hundreds of miles is hard work for the common noctule bat. But this European species makes its marathon journey a little bit easier by paying attention to the weather.

The San Diego Natural History Museum (the Nat) is celebrating its 150th anniversary in Balboa Park this fall. Paleontologist Christopher Plouffe says that paleontologists are caretakers and historians — and that the best part is sharing this work with kids and adults alike.