The Year in Review: The Top 10 Blogs You Loved
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A look back at the most impactful, insightful, and widely read blogs that shaped our year.
December 23, 2025
From The Staff Communications
10. Working Out for Better Gut and Heart Health
Connections between the risk of diabetes and blood flow show the benefits of early exercise.
9. A Timely Window into Cosmic Threats
Imagine a calm Arizona high-desert landscape—the San Francisco Peaks in the distant background, animals milling about. Suddenly, an explosion on the scale of an atomic bomb occurs, wiping out all life for miles and leaving behind a mile-wide crater. That can happen when a meteorite hits the Earth, as occurred at Meteor Crater, approximately 35 miles east of Flagstaff, Arizona, about 50,000 years ago.
8. How Forensic Scientists Find a Dead Body and How Microbes Can Help
Finding a dead body within a suspected area is challenging, and new tools can help forensics teams cast a wider net.
7. The Complex Life of Frida Kahlo
A new film, Hola Frida, introduces children to the artist.
6. The Solace of Darkness
Craig Childs muses on the significance of dark skies in his newest book.
5. Exercise, the Gut Microbiome, and Blood Pressure
Marc Cook discusses new research on how physical movement works through the gastrointestinal system to improve cardiovascular health.
4. The Science of Yet
In the premiere episode of Wired for This, we're discussing mindsets, grit, resilience, and what it takes to make seeable change in your life.
3. The Costs of Being Sally Ride
A new documentary explores the private side of the famous astronaut.
2. The Demystification of Female Anatomy
In the domain of human anatomy and sexuality, the story of the vulva and the fluids it can emit during sexual pleasure has often been muddled by mystery, misconceptions, and cultural taboos.
1. The Scientist, Her Mother, and the Chimpanzee
On July 14, 1960, Jane Goodall arrived at the Gombe Stream Chimpanzee Reserve, located on the northeastern bank of Lake Tanganyika in Africa. With support from famed paleontologist Louis Leakey, she planned to embed herself within a local community of chimps to study their behavior and, she hoped, to gain new insights into the connections between humans and other primates. That same day, by no coincidence, the Gombe site also received a visit from a second Goodall: Vanne Morris-Goodall, born Margaret Myfanwe Joseph but best known these days as “Jane Goodall’s mother.”
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