Five Radical Climate Policies That Most Americans Actually Like
Most registered voters are in favor of spending trillions on weatherized buildings and renewable-energy infrastructure.
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Tree-Poaching Is On the Rise
The opioid epidemic may be to blame for a rising incidence of illegal tree-felling.
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Luke Sharrett / Getty Images The Mystery of Moon Water
The lunar supply won’t be anything like the stuff on Earth, but NASA wants it anyway.
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Aris Messinis / Getty The Yogurt Industry Has Been Using CRISPR for a Decade
Long before there were CRISPR babies, there was CRISPR dairy.
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Illustration: Arsh Raziuddin; LIbrary of Congress / Getty Thomas Edison’s Greatest Invention
It wasn’t the light bulb or the phonograph or the moving picture—or anything tangible. It was a way of thinking about technology.
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Aimee Silla How to Teach a Frog to Love
Amphibians are dying off faster than any other vertebrate group in the world. Can hormones and IVF save them?
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Joe & Clair Carnegie / Libyan Soup / ... What Made Me Reconsider the Anthropocene
Whether our civilization is transient or not, its effects on the living world will last forever.
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Mike Eliason / AP This Is What Adapting to Climate Change Looks Like
PG&E’s blackouts in California are a bleak preview of the disruptions that will become routine in a warmer world.
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Esther Aarts Cows Need Friends to Be Happy
But modern farms deprive them of meaningful companionship.
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Alain Nogues / Getty It’s Possible to Inherit More DNA From One Parent Than the Other
23andMe’s 4-million-person database reveals how many people are living with undetected chromosomal anomalies.
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Luci Gutiérrez The Science of Getting Over It
Endings can be healthy, even when we fear them.
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NASA The Exquisite Boredom of Spacewalking
A trip outside the International Space Station is, at its core, a home-improvement project.
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ESO / M. Kornmesser / Nick Risinger A Dazzling Quarter Century of Exoplanet Discovery
The next time the Nobel Prize recognizes exoplanet science, it could be for the detection of signs of life on another world.
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Shelie Puffer / AP A Lesson for Ravens: Don’t Eat the Tortoises
Can fake tortoise shells teach predators to stop devouring soft-shelled juveniles?
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Jae C. Hong / AP / Bill Ingalls ... NASA Hands Elon Musk a Reality Check
A shared effort to deliver NASA astronauts to space recently got a little awkward.
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Jae C. Hong / AP The Messy Consequences of the Golden State Killer Case
Tools meant to reunite families are now being “used essentially to get families to put their members in jail.”
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Callaghan O'Hare / Reuters SpaceX Has Starry-Eyed Ambitions for Its Starship
Elon Musk has laid out an ambitious future for his spaceship project, the effort to deliver people to the moon and Mars.
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Wolfgang Eichentopf / Shutterstock Squirrels Are Professional Eavesdroppers
Listening in on birds could help the bushy-tailed rodents know if they’re in danger.
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Jason Lyon / Quanta What a New Theory of Attention Says About Consciousness
Filtering out distractions might be more important for the brain than highlighting important information.
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NASA The Satellites Were Never Supposed to Launch
Two years after illegally launching tiny satellites into orbit, a start-up is trying to convince regulators it’s going to play by the rules.
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Sergio Moraes / Reuters The Oceans We Know Won’t Survive Climate Change
Sea-level rise will become unmanageable, and life will flee the world’s tropical oceans, if carbon pollution keeps rising, a new report from the UN climate panel says.
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Jocelyn Tsaih The Dark Side of Light
Beneath the surface of one of Germany’s deepest lakes, researchers are studying the hidden effects of artificial light.
