| Why Am I Right-Handed? |
| Donald Trump Incites His Crowds — And His Crowds Incite Him |
| This Survey Is Unwieldy And Intrusive — And Invaluable To Understanding Americans’ Health |
| All Those New Dinosaurs May Not Be New — Or Dinosaurs |
| Why Does The Sun Hurt My Eyes? |
| How Two Grad Students Uncovered An Apparent Fraud — And A Way To Change Opinions On Transgender Rights |
| Why Do Boys Have Wieners? |
| Congress’s Zika Fight Is Really About A Slush Fund To Combat Infectious Diseases |
| How Do You Put Out A Subterranean Fire Beneath A Mountain Of Trash? |
| Welcome To FiveThirtyEight’s Gut Science Week |
| Everybody Is Constipated, Nobody Is Constipated |
| What If The Moon Were Bigger? |
| Tornado Town, USA |
| Superbugs Have Reached The U.S. For The First Time — Again |
| Psychiatrists Can’t Tell Us What They Think About Trump |
| To Keep The Blood Supply Safe, Screening Blood Is More Important Than Banning Donors |
| We Study What Makes People More Liberal. But What Makes Them More Conservative? |
| Why Most Alzheimer’s Research Is Done On Early-Onset Patients Like Pat Summitt |
| No Technology — Not Even Tesla’s Autopilot — Can Be Completely Safe |
| The Loudest Sound In The World Would Kill You On The Spot |
| What Counts As An Accident? |
| Always Ready, Always There |
| How Do We Beam Pictures Back From Jupiter? It Takes A Village |
| Five Enduring Questions About Zika |
| How Big Is A Fart? Somewhere Between A Bottle Of Nail Polish And A Can Of Soda |
| We Use A Whole Bunch Of Energy Every Summer (And A Lot Of It Goes To Waste) |
| What Happens If E.T. Phones Us? |
| Why It’s So Hard To Find The Next Earth, Even If You’re Looking Right At It |
| How The Oil And Gas Industry Awakened Oklahoma’s Sleeping Fault Lines |
| Harvard Wins The Most Nobel Prizes In Physiology And Medicine (For Dudes) |
| And The Typical Nobel Prize Winner In Physics Is … |
| The Typical Chemistry Nobel Winner Changed After 1980 |
| The Typical Winner of the Nobel Peace Prize Is Not Old, American — Or Human |
| The Economics Nobel Isn’t Really A Nobel |
| How Many Times Did Trump Interrupt Clinton In The First Debate? Depends On How You Count |
| The Secret Lives Of Rocks |
| USA! USA! US … Oh, Never Mind. It’s The Literature Nobel. |
| Did The Pope Change Catholics’ Minds On Climate Change? |
| Why We Don’t Know How Much Sexism Is Hurting Clinton’s Campaign |
| It’s Hard To Tell Whether Trump Supports Renewable Energy — And That May Not Matter Much |
| How Do We Know When A Hunk Of Rock Is Actually A Stone Tool? |
| Big Farms Are Getting Bigger And Most Small Farms Aren’t Really Farms At All |
| Even Mega-Farms Are Mostly Family Owned |
| Democracy, Meh? |
| Police Violence Against Native Americans Goes Far Beyond Standing Rock |
| Oklahoma May Resist Federal Regulation, But Its Environmental Record Isn’t Terrible |
| Scientists Protest Climate-Change Deniers Among Trump’s Cabinet Picks |
| What A Balloon’s Pop Tells Us About The End Of The World |
| Virginia Was A Little Old To Still Believe In Santa |
| Everyone Is Vulnerable To Conflicts Of Interest. Including Donald Trump. |
| There’s Almost No Way Energy Policy Can Satisfy Everyone |
| Does The United States Really Need To Improve Its Image Abroad? |
| What We Learned (And Didn’t) About Scott Pruitt At His Confirmation Hearing |
| Trump Finds The Weak Spot In Obama’s Protections For Scientists |
| Presidents Before Trump Have Meddled With The EPA — It Didn’t Go Well |
| TrumpBeat: There Is No Pivot |
| Trump’s National Security Council Changes Aren’t Unusual — For The Most Part |
| TrumpBeat: What The Immigration Chaos Tells Us About What’s To Come |
| Why That Maui Wowie Doesn’t Hit You The Same Way Every Time |
| Let’s Go To Mars! (Or Not) |
| TrumpBeat: Is Trump Already Messing With Government Data? |
| Mars Needs Lawyers |
| TrumpBeat: Follow The Money If You Want To Know What Trump Will Do |
| How Big Is Space? Check Back In A Few Billion Years |
| Space Sex Is Serious Business |
| TrumpBeat: Return Of The Facts |
| The Easiest Way for Trump To Do Stuff Is To Not Do Stuff |
| TrumpBeat: You Can’t Build A Legacy On Executive Orders |
| A Weaker EPA May Not Mean The Environment Goes To Hell |
| TrumpBeat: ‘I Realized It’s Not So Easy’ |
| Marching Scientists Will Have A Lot In Common With Angry ’70s Farmers |
| Trump Isn’t A Do-Nothing President |
| The Bugs Of The World Could Squish Us All |
| Moderate Republicans Are Flexing Their Muscles |
| The Tangled Story Behind Trump’s False Claims Of Voter Fraud |
| TrumpBeat: Yes, There Was Non-Comey News This Week |
| How Animal Rights Activists And Environmentalists Became Unlikely Adversaries |
| The Paris Agreement Would Have Been Less Partisan 30 Years Ago |
| TrumpBeat: If You Don’t Like The Officiating, Fire The Refs |
| The Kansas Experiment Is Bad News For Trump’s Tax Cuts |
| Two Government Agencies. Two Different Climate Maps. |
| Why Republicans Might Be Forced To Oppose Tax Cuts |
| The Trump Administration’s Own Data Says Obamacare Isn’t Imploding |
| Trump’s Voter Fraud Commission Is Facing A Tough Data Challenge |
| Don’t Tell The Kids, But Bedtime Is A Social Construct |
| The Fed Is About To Get Trumpier |
| Three Things Trump Could Do To Hurt Obamacare |
| The Solar Eclipse vs. Solar Electricity |
| Trump’s Military Ban Could Hurt More Than Just Transgender Troops |
| Look! We Found Something Republicans, Democrats And Jared Kushner Actually Agree On! |
| Trump Keeps Derailing His Own Agenda |
| Now Stare Directly At This Eclipse Story |
| What Can We Do If A President Has A Conflict Of Interest But Doesn’t Think He Does? |
| It’s Time To Ditch The Concept Of ‘100-Year Floods’ |
| What 100-Year-Old Hurricanes Could Teach Us About Irma |
| Surviving A Big Storm Doesn’t Mean The Trauma Is Over |
| Kris Kobach Can Prove U.S. Elections Are Messy, But That’s Not The Same Thing As Fraudulent |
| One More Thing For Puerto Rico To Worry About: Disease-Ridden Mosquitoes |
| Mass Shootings Are A Bad Way To Understand Gun Violence |
| Why Puerto Rico’s Electric Grid Stood No Chance Against Maria |
| What Would Happen If There Were No Number 6? |
| Climate Science Isn’t Being Silenced Everywhere In Washington |
| Holiday Weight Gain Is More Complicated Than One Thanksgiving Dinner |
| The Contract Scandal In Puerto Rico May Say More About The Utility Than It Says About Trump |
| The Complicated Legacy Of A Panda Who Was Really Good At Sex |
| Politics Moves Fast. Peer Review Moves Slow. What’s A Political Scientist To Do? |
| Can Trump’s Pick To Lead The Weather Service Really Be Independent Of His Family Business? |
| Most Personality Quizzes Are Junk Science. I Found One That Isn’t. |
| A Competency Test For Trump Could Be A Bad Idea |
| How Much Sugar Would It Take To Get A Rocket To The Moon? |
| It’s One Thing For Trump To Like Uranium. It’s Another For Him To Save It. |
| These Researchers Have Been Trying To Stop School Shootings For 20 Years |
| What It’s Like To Watch #MeToo When It Is You, Too |
| The Trouble With Quitting Facebook Is That We Like Facebook |
| The Pay Gap Is Way Too Entrenched To Be Solved By Women Alone |
| If Pruitt Gets Fired, Liberals And Conservatives Could Both End Up Disappointed |
| Who Built The First House? And What Even Is A House? |
| Should We Trust Michael Cohen If He Flips On Trump? |
| You Can’t Opt Out Of Sharing Your Data, Even If You Didn’t Opt In |
| Why Is Water Slippery? |
| Humans Are Dumb At Figuring Out How Smart Animals Are |
| A Half-Day Of Diversity Training Won’t Change Much For Starbucks |
| Nuclear Power Won’t Survive Without A Government Handout |
| Science Wants Your Data |
| Pruitt Was Friendly To The Energy Industry. His Replacement Was Paid By It. |
| Wildfires In The U.S. Are Getting Bigger |
| Your Tweets Are Somehow Worthy Of Scientific Study |
| Can Science Save Politics? Or Will Politics Ruin Science? |
| Hacking The Electric Grid Is Damned Hard |
| How Money Affects Elections |
| Slow-Moving Storms Like Florence Produce Big Floods — And Are Becoming The Norm |
| Science Says Toxic Masculinity — More Than Alcohol — Leads To Sexual Assault |
| Why Humans Are Bad At Spotting Lies |
| Why We’re Stuck With An Inadequate Hurricane Rating System |
| What Climate Change Taught Us About Hurricanes |
| What Happens When Humans Fall In Love With An Invasive Species |
| Why Politicians Don’t Always Listen To Political Scientists |
| How To Make Sense Of This Week’s Mail Bombs |
| Only 6 Percent Of U.S. Terrorists Act Alone, But They Are Prolific |
| Who Should Recount Elections: People … Or Machines? |
| Why California’s Wildfires Are So Destructive, In 5 Charts |
| California’s Wildfires Could Mean A Generation Of Lung Problems |
| Human Behavior Might Be The Hardest Part Of Climate Change To Predict |
| Who Would Win A Fight Between An Anaconda And A Komodo Dragon? |
| We Have Ways To Stop Rogue Scientists. They Don’t Always Work. |
| Happy New Year! Your Resolutions Won’t Bring You Joy. |
| The Era Of Easy Recycling May Be Coming To An End |
| How To Make Sure Your Recycling Gets Recycled |
| Americans Were A Lot Less Worried About Climate Change Before Trump Took Office |
| How Much Is The Government Spending On Climate Change? We Don’t Know, And Neither Do They |
| The Green New Deal Is Impractical, But ‘Practical’ Solutions Haven’t Worked Either |
| Why Good Politics And Good Climate Science Don’t Mix |
| Who Will Science The Scientists? |
| Conspiracy Theories Can’t Be Stopped |
| Americans Are Smart About Science |
| Our Organ Donation System Is Unfair. The Solution Might Be Too. |
| Forget The Black Hole Picture — Check Out The Sweet Technology That Made It Possible |
| Even Brain Function Tests Can’t Tell Us How Old Is Too Old To Be President |
| Who Owns The Dinosaurs? It All Depends On Where You Find Them |
| The Loudest Places You Can’t Hear |
| Everyone Knows Money Influences Politics … Except Scientists |
| Can You Unwrinkle A Raisin? |
| Science Has A Sustainability Problem |
| We Can Predict Where Measles Will Happen. Why Don’t We? |
| What Questions Do You Want Answered About Climate Change? |
| How Weird Is Andrew Yang’s Tech Policy? Only About As Weird As America’s. |
| We Don’t Really Know How Stressed Americans Are About Climate |
| No Terrorist Is A ‘Lone Wolf’ |
| Can We Prevent Mass Shootings By Preventing Suicide? |
| No, Bringing Back Mental Institutions Won’t Stop Mass Shootings |
| A Virtual Iowa Caucus Would Have Been A Hacking Nightmare |
| The World Isn’t Ready For Climate Refugees |
| Here’s The Best Place To Move If You’re Worried About Climate Change |
| We’ve Been Fighting The Vaping Crisis Since 1937 |
| Why Partisans Look At The Same Evidence On Ukraine And See Wildly Different Things |
| Media Bubbles Aren’t The Biggest Reason We’re Partisans |
| Why Carbon Capture Hasn’t Saved Us From Climate Change Yet |
| How To Understand Natural Disasters In A Climate Change Age |
| Why Nonprofits Can’t Research Gun Violence As Well As The Feds |
| Is This Fish Winning Climate Change? |
| How To Fight With Your Family At Thanksgiving |
| Does Knowing Whom Others Might Vote For Change Whom You’ll Vote For? |
| In American Politics, Everyone’s A Cynic |
| Congress Is Throwing A Little Money At Gun Violence Research. It Might Go A Long Way. |
| Here’s How We Know 2019 Was The Second-Hottest Year Ever |
| You’ll Never Know Which Candidate Is Electable |
| Americans Were Already Primed To Distrust Elections. Then Came Iowa. |
| What Happens To Your Mail-Order Mattress After You Return It |
| Quarantines Won’t Save Us From Coronavirus |
| Americans Don’t Trust The People In Charge Of The Coronavirus Fight |
| Bloomberg’s Money Bought Him Something — Just Not The Nomination |
| Will Coronavirus Happen Every Year Like The Flu? |
| Why We Shouldn’t Hope COVID-19 Is Seasonal Like The Flu |
| Coronavirus May Make Millions Of Americans Sick. But We Only Have About 100,000 Ventilators. |
| Primary Polling Places Are Full Of Older People … And The Coronavirus |
| How Should You Social Distance? |
| How Coronavirus Tests Actually Work |
| Why The U.S. Can’t Process Coronavirus Tests As Fast As South Korea |
| Hand-Washing Technique Is Surprisingly Controversial |
| Why It’s So Freaking Hard To Make A Good COVID-19 Model |
| Politics Podcast: Why Forecasting COVID-19 Is Harder Than Forecasting Elections |
| Why Forecasting COVID-19 Is Harder Than Forecasting Elections |
| Science Has No Clear Answers On The Coronavirus. Face Masks Are No Exception. |
| A Comic Strip Tour Of The Wild World Of Pandemic Modeling |
| How COVID-19 Is Wreaking Havoc On Our Ability To Make Things — Including Vaccines |
| There Are Not Enough COVID-19 Tests. There Are Also Too Many COVID-19 Tests. |
| How A Shortage Of Sand (And Other Common Items) Could Delay A Coronavirus Vaccine |
| Why Are More Men Than Women Dying Of COVID-19? |
| More Men Than Women Are Dying From COVID-19. Is It Biology Or Behavior? |
| Politics Podcast: Can COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories Be Stopped? |
| The Politics Of COVID-19 Conspiracy Theories |
| The Uncounted Dead |
| Most Americans Haven’t Stopped Trusting Scientists |
| De-escalation Keeps Protesters And Police Safer. Departments Respond With Force Anyway. |
| Most Americans Still Trust Scientists |
| The Two Autopsies Of George Floyd Aren’t As Different As They Seem |
| Is Police Reform A Fundamentally Flawed Idea? |
| The Science of Mask-Wearing Hasn’t Changed. So Why Have Our Expectations? |
| Every Decision Is A Risk. Every Risk Is A Decision. |
| Many Americans Are Convinced Crime Is Rising In The U.S. They’re Wrong. |
| What Happened In Portland Shows Just How Fragile Our Democracy Is |
| How Trump And COVID-19 Have Reshaped The Modern Militia Movement |
| Coronavirus Models Were Always About More Than Flattening The Curve |
| How To Know When You Can Trust A COVID-19 Vaccine |
| Emergency Politics Podcast: Trump Tests Positive For COVID-19 |
| Trump Tested Positive For COVID-19. Now What? |
| Trump Has An Elevated Risk Of Severe COVID-19. But It Helps To Be The President. |
| Take Negative COVID-19 Tests Seriously, But Not Literally |
| Trump Doesn’t Know Why Crime Rises or Falls. Neither Does Biden. Or Any Other Politician. |
| You Can’t Learn Much From One COVID-19 Patient — Even When That Patient Is President Trump |
| What A Summer Of COVID-19 Taught Scientists About Indoor vs. Outdoor Transmission |
| Fear Of Voter Intimidation Is Its Own Voter Intimidation |
| What Two Studies With Very Different Findings Can Tell Us About Voting In A Pandemic |
| Pfizer’s Vaccine Announcement Was Always Going To Be Political |
| What To Make Of Pfizer’s Big Vaccine Announcement |
| Why Even A Small Thanksgiving Is Dangerous |
| Does It Matter Which COVID-19 Vaccine You Get? |
| Even After Getting Vaccinated, You Could Still Infect Others |
| The Police’s Tepid Response To The Capitol Breach Wasn’t An Aberration |
| Answers To All (Or At Least Some) Of Your COVID-19 Vaccine Questions |
| Why Police Aggression Is Far More Pronounced Against Left-Leaning Protesters |
| Our Radicalized Republic |
| Politics Podcast: The Lawmakers Who Will Determine What Gets Through Congress |
| Partisans Don’t Just Disagree, They Hate One Another |
| How COVID-19 Ended Flu Season Before It Started |
| Politics Podcast: How The Crisis In Texas Happened |
| Will National Politics Obscure What’s Really Happening In Texas? |
| So You Got Vaccinated … And Then You Got COVID. Now What? |
| The Year Of Choosing Dangerously |
| Why Your Doctor Was Left Out Of The COVID-19 Vaccination Plan |