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Chloé Bulpin Mysterious Glowing Clams Could Help Save the Planet
The world’s largest mollusks are experts at turning sunshine and algae into fuel.
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JPL / NASA NASA’s Beloved Mars Rovers Are Having a Rough Year
One was felled by a dust storm. And now the other has been sidelined by a technical glitch.
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Thomas Mukoya The Three Major Cartels Behind the Downfall of Africa’s Elephants
DNA from dung and tusks helped expose the three major groups behind most of Africa’s ivory smuggling.
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Yves Forestier / Getty Wiping Out the Brain’s Retired Cells Prevents a Hallmark of Alzheimer's
A study in mice hints at a new approach for thwarting neurodegenerative diseases—but many questions remain.
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Gregory Adams / Getty A Man Says His DNA Test Proves He’s Black, and He’s Suing
A case in Washington questions how the government defines race.
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Mike Segar / Reuters What Is 13,000 Feet Tall, Millions of Years Old, and Spews Out Ice?
Scientists are searching for a mysterious kind of volcano on the dwarf planet Ceres.
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Carlo Allegri / Reuters The Genes That Never Go Out of Style
Fifteen years after the Human Genome Project, scientists are still mostly studying genes that have already been well studied.
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Chris Carlson / AP SpaceX Will Send a Japanese Billionaire to the Moon—And He’s Taking a Bunch of Artists With Him
The spaceflight company said Monday it would take Yusaku Maezawa on a historic trip in 2023.
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Jonathan Drake / Reuters For Millions, Florence 'Has Never Been More Dangerous'
North Carolina's governor warned that inland residents now face life-threatening hazards.
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mark peterson / Corbis / Getty The Dilemma of Teaching Race in High-School Biology
The way science classes talk about—or gloss over—the science of human difference could risk reinforcing students’ misperceptions.
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NOAA Florence Will Drop an Inconceivable Amount of Water
In the next few days, the hurricane will likely dump 18 trillion gallons of rain, as much water as fills the Chesapeake Bay.
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WCVB / AP Dozens of Massachusetts Homes Exploded. A Gas Expert Weighs In.
Investigators still don't know what happened, but there's one likely explanation.
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Kennedy Space Center / NASA Who Is SpaceX's Mystery Moon Passenger?
Previous lunar travelers have all looked the same. Could this one be different?
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Behzad Farahanchi The Persian Leopard Is a Symbol of Persecution and Survival in the Middle East
In the Kurdish mountains, conservationists are facing landmines and cultural taboos to save the endangered cat.
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Ognen Teofilovski / Reuters Do or Die for the Leading Big Bang Theory
A new analysis could put the question of cosmic expansion to rest once and for all.
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Matt Chinworth How Will Police Solve Murders on Mars?
Mars P.D. will have to deal with new blood-spatter patterns, different body decay rates, and space-suit sabotage—and they won’t be able to fire guns indoors.
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Rich Pedroncelli / AP 17 Bipartisan Governors Vow to Fight Climate Change—And President Trump
The group, whose states represent half of U.S. GDP, pledged $1.4 billion to support electric cars, plus a new set of policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
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Max Whittaker / Reuters The Future of Chicken, Without Antibiotics
Human drugs have been crucial to poultry farming. So what’s replacing them?
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NOAA Don’t Pay Attention to the Hurricane Category
The wind-based metric doesn’t fully capture what’s most dangerous about storms like Florence.
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Pawel Kopczynski / Reuters Bacteria in a Dinosaur Bone Reignite a Heated Debate
The discovery of modern microbes in a deeply buried fossil has complicated an already tangled dispute in paleontology.
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Amit Dave / Reuters The American Mango Is a Bland Disappointment
The U.S. lifted a long-standing ban on importing Indian mangoes in 2007. So why is it still so hard to find full-flavored fruit?
