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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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers slap a living antenna on a drone to give the machine an insanely keen sense of smell. Ladies and gentlemen, meet the “Smellicopter.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
With lots of research, arrows, and an inviting color palette, artists helped transform complex research into useful information. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
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. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The most massive database of microbial gene sequences so far shows that the tree of life is much larger than we knew. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Between glimpses of a medical cure and winning science’s shiniest prize, this proved to the gene-editing technology’s biggest year yet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In Washington state, scientists, coastal communities, and state agencies are banding together to manage the growing threat of harmful algal blooms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A team at Oxford University has reverse engineered fuel from the greenhouse gas—but so far just in the lab. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Astronomers get their wish—new ultra-precise distance measurements between Earth and the stars—but that only intensifies a cosmic crisis. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers are putting out a call to study the potential effects of bacteria- and fungi-filled haze on human health. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The goal of the “busy beaver” game is to find the longest-running computer program. Its pursuit has surprising connections to profound questions in math. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Anthropogenic mass—concrete, metal, and other human creations—has grown to be heavier than plants, animals, and microbes combined. Planet Earth is not happy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Disinformation could thwart distribution before government messages have a chance to push back. Debunking might turn out to be everyone’s job. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
More than 50 years after its course correction failure, Surveyor 2’s rocket booster seems to have reappeared. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Data from 120,000 birdwatchers in 48 countries shows forest birds have expanded their range while area occupied by farmland birds has shrunk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new and potentially improved measurement of a proton’s charge radius brings scientists closer to an answer. But the issue is still unresolved. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
What at first seems like terrible housekeeping turns out to be a clever ploy to fend off huge predators, which can otherwise easily destroy a hive. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Covid-19 pandemic has brought incalculable suffering and trauma. But it also offers ways for people—and even societies—to change for the better. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Japanese Hayabusa2 mission to asteroid Ryugu marks a major milestone this weekend with the return of pristine space rock. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Increasing summer temperatures are proving a menace to butter, chocolates, and baked Alaska. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new study tests a device that can efficiently split the resource’s water into pure oxygen and hydrogen in Martian conditions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers loaded containers with trackers and released them in the Ganges and the Bay of Bengal, giving new insight into how plastic pollution travels. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Canada’s most endangered mammal is back from the brink of extinction—and offers hope as an “ambassador” for the conservation of less adorable species. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It is very useful for showing data that spans different orders of magnitude—like case numbers in South Korea compared to the numbers in the United States. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The newly measured rate of a key nuclear fusion process that forged the first atomic nuclei matches the picture of the universe 380,000 years later. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Think you’ve got an interesting microbiome? Your body ain’t got nothing on what’s accumulated on Leonardo’s drawings over 500 years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A clever technique allows scientists to scan a heart and reconstruct it in a soup of gelatin. It's like making jello, only way more useful for surgeons. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As glaciers retreat and permafrost thaws, massive landslides threaten coastal communities. Those, in turn, could trigger giant sea waves. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The idea for solar thermal propulsion has been around for decades, but researchers tapped by NASA just conducted a first test. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
