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This Hot Summer Is One of the Coolest of the Rest of Our Lives
Extreme heat has been a constant in the news this past summer: In July a punishing heat wave in Europe…
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A Cure for Vaccine Hesitancy Could Start in Kindergarten
The book Splat the Cat Goes to the Doctor and the nursery rhyme “This Is the Way We Brush Our…
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Replacing Lead Water Pipes with Plastic Could Raise New Safety Issues
A landmark federal commitment to fund the elimination of a toxic national legacy—lead drinking water pipes—promises to improve the public…
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What does the Inflation Reduction Act mean for US carbon emissions?
The US senate just passed the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022, which includes the largest climate spending package in US…
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Mice produce rat sperm with technique that could help conservation
Mice containing rat cells have produced rat sperm thanks to a modification technique that could be useful for conserving endangered…
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A New Private Moon Race Kicks Off Soon
One day last December, John Walker Moosbrugger, a 25-year-old project manager for the lunar robotics start-up Astrobotic, sat in front…
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Robot unties knotted cables but can’t pick them up off the floor
A robot that can untangle long cables with just two simple grippers may be useful in aircraft and car manufacturing…
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Forensic Experts Are Surprisingly Good at Telling Whether Two Writing Samples Match
After the 2020 U.S. presidential election, handwriting analysis researcher Mara Merlino got a strange phone call. The person on the…
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Coronavirus may enter the brain by building tiny tunnels from the nose
How the virus behind covid-19 enters the brain was somewhat of a mystery, but new evidence hints it may build…
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The Slow Bake of Our Infrastructure
As England, Spain and huge swaths of the U.S. deal with record-shattering high temperatures, the time has come to stop…
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