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Byrd Pinkerton

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Inside a quest to learn about the ocean’s mysterious “deep reefs”

The context you need, when you need it When news breaks, you need to understand what actually matters — and what to do about it. At Vox, our mission...

01.09.2026 10

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Byrd Pinkerton

The quest to solve the mysteries of teen minds

What’s actually going on in a teenager’s head? What happens in peoples’ brains as they transform from children into adults? What makes young...

10.12.2025 60

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Byrd Pinkerton

What humans might learn from nature’s real-life zombies

Zombies, it turns out, are real — and science journalist Mindy Weisberger can give you plenty of examples of them. She’s read up on the fungi that...

13.10.2025 80

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Byrd Pinkerton

How sensitive is Greenland’s ice to a warming world?

It sounds like something out of science fiction: In the late 1950s, the US Army carved a tiny “city” into the Greenland ice sheet, 800 miles from...

27.08.2025 20

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A wasting disease killed millions of sea stars. After years of searching, scientists just found a cause.

“It was like a battleground,” Drew Harvell remembers. “It was really horrible.” She’s reflecting on a time in December 2013, on the coast of...

04.08.2025 40

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Byrd Pinkerton