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Jan 18, 2021 • 9min
Climate Change Is Turning Cities Into Ovens
A new model estimates that by 2100, cities across the world could warm as much as 4.4 degrees Celsius. It’s a deadly consequence of the “heat island” effect.
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Jan 15, 2021 • 8min
These Adorable Fish Robots Form Schools Like the Real Thing
Meet Bluebot, a friendly swimming robot with big camera eyes. Put a few in a tank together and they’ll collaborate to complete surprisingly complex tasks.
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Jan 14, 2021 • 8min
This Drone Sniffs Out Odors With a Real Moth Antenna
Researchers slap a living antenna on a drone to give the machine an insanely keen sense of smell. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the “Smellicopter.”
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Jan 13, 2021 • 10min
In a Pandemic, Medical Illustrators Made Science Accessible
With lots of research, arrows, and an inviting color palette, artists helped transform complex research into useful information.
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Jan 12, 2021 • 11min
A Bold Plan to Save the Last Whitebark Pines
The high-altitude tree is vital to its ecosystem, but it’s being decimated by a fungus. Its admirers are fusing old and new methods to bring it back.
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Jan 11, 2021 • 10min
A New Field Guide for Earth’s Wild Microbes
The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than we knew.
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Jan 8, 2021 • 10min
2020 Was a Breakout Year for Crispr
Between glimpses of a medical cure and winning science’s shiniest prize, this proved to the gene-editing technology’s biggest year yet.
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Jan 7, 2021 • 13min
A Unique Alliance Could Help Warn Us of Toxic Algae
In Washington state, scientists, coastal communities, and state agencies are banding together to manage the growing threat of harmful algal blooms.
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Jan 6, 2021 • 7min
Could Carbon Dioxide Be Turned Into Jet Fuel?
A team at Oxford University has reverse engineered fuel from the greenhouse gas—but so far just in the lab.
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Jan 5, 2021 • 11min
The Universe Is Expanding Faster Than Expected
Astronomers get their wish—new ultra-precise distance measurements between Earth and the stars—but that only intensifies a cosmic crisis.
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