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Oct 5, 2016 • 6min
Hawaii’s Mysterious Coral Reefs Turn Out to Be Super Weird
The Hawaiian coral reefs you know-the brilliant blue waters and rainbow fishes and the occasional sea turtle-are just a facade. Sorry, but it's true: Science says so. Dive past these upper-ocean paradises, deeper and deeper, and you'll find even more incredible reefs-ones that, shrouded in near-total darkness, shouldn't exist at all. Hundreds of feet below the ocean's surface, the so-called deep reef-also known as the twilight zone-is just coming into view.
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Oct 3, 2016 • 7min
An Ode to the Rosetta Spacecraft as It Flings Itself Into a Comet
Today, the European Space Agency's Rosetta spacecraft will engage its thrusters for one final maneuver: a suicidal plunge toward the comet it has been orbiting for two years and chasing for a decade. After Rosetta collides with comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko, its systems will go dark. Scientists will never hear from it again.
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Sep 29, 2016 • 4min
House Republicans Are Trying to Blackball the Climate Investigation into Exxon
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Sep 29, 2016 • 5min
The Government’s Top Financial Regulator Is Investigating ExxonMobil
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Sep 29, 2016 • 8min
Elon Musk and SpaceX Announce a Plan to Colonize Mars and Save Humanity
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Sep 29, 2016 • 4min
IBM Just Made It Easier to Build Apps That Harness the Weather
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Sep 29, 2016 • 5min
The US May Not Be Able to Hit Its Ambitious Climate Goal
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Sep 14, 2016 • 5min
Jeff Bezos’ New Rocket Could Send the First People to Mars
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Sep 8, 2016 • 4min
Want to Be a Good Science Communicator? You Have to Build Bridges
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Sep 5, 2016 • 4min
Spraying Mosquitoes by Plane Ain’t Perfect, But It’s the Best We’ve Got for Zika
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