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If they collide, it could cause big problems for breeding penguins and seals by cutting off their access to the open sea. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Pfizer's new vaccine has to be stored at extremely low temperatures. Here's how things work when it gets that cold. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In non-election news, Microgaster godzilla dives to find a caterpillar, forces it to the surface, and injects it with a baby that eats the host from the inside out. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new documentary from the German auteur examines the influence of meteorites on cultures around the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Physicians have seen this recovery symptom before, but they still don’t know why so many coronavirus survivors are being affected. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
With a surge in cases, there is no safe way to travel or gather for Thanksgiving or Christmas. But if you must, here are some ways to lower your risk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Unlike most domestic animals, the goldfish is purely decorative. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Peat fires smolder in the ground for months, suddenly emerging as surface wildfires. New simulations reveal their strange life, death, and reanimation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US has a long history of abusing minorities for pharmaceutical profit. Messaging for a Covid-19 inoculation will have to overcome that past. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A California team will use a robotic vehicle to study tiny seafloor creatures, hoping they might yield new compounds to fight viruses and cancer. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Aboard a decked-out C-130, researchers measure how smoke transforms from “fresh” to “stale” and begin to parse what that means for humans downwind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Two decades ago, three explorers arrived at the International Space Station and marked the beginning of a permanent human presence beyond Earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The DNA-cutting tool has been hailed as a way to fix genetic glitches. But a new study suggests it can remove more than scientists bargained for. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new study reveals that the invertebrates use a novel kind of receptor embedded in their suckers to explore their ocean habitats. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Electrodes threaded through the blood vessels that feed the brain let people control gadgets with their minds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The suits worn by Washington state entomologists aren't "official" hornet-fighting armor. But they were affordable—and came up in an Amazon search. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mark Kelly isn’t the first former NASA astronaut to run for office, but if he’s elected he’ll be the only one to make it to Congress on his first shot. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists discover that baby bottles shed up to 16 million bits of plastic per liter of fluid. What that means for infants’ health, no one can yet say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
People tend to focus on whether an experience ends on an up note or a sour one, even if it leads us to make bad decisions. A new study examines why. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers showed that a saline spray “treatment” reduced people’s emotional distress, even though the study subjects knew the spray wouldn’t do anything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If the US brought back the Great Depression’s massive worker program, it could put millions of Americans back to work—and help stave off disasters like wildfires. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The carnivorous plant is believed to have something akin to a short-term "memory." A team of scientists has uncovered new details on how it works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The carnivorous plant is believed to have something akin to a short-term "memory." A team of scientists has uncovered new details on how it works. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Normally, the 'birthplace of ice' freezes by late October. For the first time in recorded history, it hasn't. That could have knock-on effects across the Arctic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new pair of studies reveals that the resource isn’t limited to large shadowy craters. That's good news for the upcoming crewed missions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The puny insect can withstand forces 39,000 times its body weight. Scientists just discovered its super-strength secret—which could inspire new materials. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nagging, giving unsolicited advice, and “ecopiety” are out. But there are better ways to get people to adopt green habits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An enormous new data set peers into the health of the world’s population before 2020—and how the coronavirus turned that into a global disaster. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new study shows that some big carnivores are getting up to half their diet from sources like trash, crops, or small mammals that live near people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Finnish researchers just published the first big test of the “biodiversity hypothesis”—that exposure to the microbes in dirt is good for young immune systems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
