The Genomic Revolution Reaches the City Crime Lab
How will law enforcement handle the deluge of new information available from DNA?
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John Minchillo / AP So, Eclipse Boomtowns, How’d It Go?
“I think I can speak for the rest of the city staff in that we wish there were a way we could host one of these once a year.”
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What If Everyone Ate Beans Instead of Beef?
What can an individual do about climate change? The easiest answer: make this one dietary switch.
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Handout / Reuters What Would a Hydrogen Bomb Do to the Pacific Ocean?
A North Korean official has hinted about conducting a nuclear test at sea, which would have severe environmental consequences.
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Nikola Solic / Reuters The Lost History of Neanderthals
New genetic evidence suggests our mysterious ancient cousins were more resilient—and more humanlike—than previously thought.
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Brennan Linsley / AP Waiting for a Signal From Arecibo
The world’s second-largest radio telescope has sustained “some damage” from Hurricane Maria.
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Michael Dalder / Reuters Infants Can Learn the Value of Perseverance by Watching Adults
After observing grown-ups struggling with tasks, 1-year-old babies make more effort themselves.
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Peter Holderness, Caltech Even Jellyfish Sleep
Three Caltech students have shown that these brainless animals have their own version of slumber.
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Oz Architecture Designing a Better Antarctic Base for Science
The largest community on Antarctica is set for a series of radical upgrades to its decaying infrastructure.
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Modern Meadow Leather, Grown in a Lab Without Cows
Modern Meadow’s factory will crank out leather via yeast fermentation.
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Courtesy of James Cheshire and Oliver Uberti The Golden Age of Animal Tracking
Scientists may soon be able to monitor whole ecosystems in real time.
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ALMA / ESO / NAOJ / NRAO / ... A Peek at the Glowing Red Shell Around an Aging Star
The latest picture of a distant star shows more detail than ever before.
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West Coast Wildlife Center How to Raise the Rarest Kiwi
Thanks to a long-running plan to rear their chicks in captivity, these national icons are bouncing back from the edge of extinction.
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Eleanor Fortescue-Brickdale / Library and Archives Canada How One Woman Brought the 'Mother's Curse' to Canada
Old French Canadian genealogy records reveal how a harmful mutation can hide from natural selection in a mother's DNA.
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Dan Joling / AP Climate Change Is Making Farming Irresistible in Alaska
Along with other factors, the warming weather is bolstering agriculture in the state as farms across America shut down.
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Lucas Jackson / Reuters What George Stephanopoulos Gets Wrong About Climate Policy
The reporter's interview with H.R. McMaster was a missed opportunity.
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Robert Reed Scientists Can Now Repaint Butterfly Wings
Thanks to CRISPR, scientists are studying animal evolution in ways that were previously thought to be impossible.
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Chris Hondros / Getty The Real Difference Between Warm and Cool Colors
Languages have more words to describe reds than blues.
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NASA / AP Hurricane Maria Just Became a Category 4 Storm
The hurricane is barreling toward the Caribbean, which is still reeling from the effects of Irma.
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Wellcome Trust The Museum of Colonialism
The man—and the empire—that made the British Museum
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NASA / JPL / Space Science Institute This Is the Way Cassini Ends
As the spacecraft prepared to plunge into Saturn, the mission's longest-serving members remembered its years-long journey.
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NASA / JPL-Caltech Scientists Don't Want You to Call Cassini's End a 'Suicide'
Anthropomorphizing robots is one thing, but some say news reports about the spacecraft risk being insensitive.
