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These crawlers form clumps to protect the collective. Understanding their movement gives engineers a model for shape-shifting robot swarms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The general theory of relativity states that black holes have only three observable properties; additional ones, or “hair,” do not exist. Or do they? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Now that we’ve gotten a look at the genomes of archaic humans, researchers are trying to determine whether our differences are due to genetics. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As the agency considers sending people to the moon and Mars, it’s taking a fresh look at the research on cancer risk and recalculating acceptable thresholds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In order to curb the industry's prolific carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The accelerometers give scientists information about whether animals are swimming, walking, running, or even sprinting up a hill. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Using a camera shooting 300,000 frames per second, researchers catch the amphipod snapping its extraordinarily powerful claw. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
They talk about something called state vectors. What the heck are those, and would it really work? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Johnson and Johnson’s vaccine can be delivered in a single dose, but it’s also slightly less effective. Who should get it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A modeling system called Vulcan shows that on average, cities across the country pollute 18.3 percent more than they’ve estimated. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
To understand how universes might inflate and bump into each other in the hypothetical multiverse, physicists are studying digital and physical analogs of the process. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Archaeologists found the entrance to the unexplored burial shaft earlier this week. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Testing a vaccine on children takes longer and comes with more challenges. But inoculating kids can protect an entire population. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mike Pence promised to land on the moon in 2024, but that’s fallen out of reach. So what now? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists find that cyanobacteria cause sediments on glaciers to clump, thus absorbing more sunlight. It's not great news for fans of lower sea levels. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Three-dimensional computer simulations have solved the mystery of why doomed stars explode at all. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Facilities that suck carbon dioxide out of the air could be powerful weapons for fighting climate change. But their deployment requires a huge wartime-style investment. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mega-sites need a lot of personnel and pose problems of access and equity. But other vaccination campaigns might point us in the right direction. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
No one was calling it a pandemic yet, at least publicly. Then came more troubling evidence about transmission, as the US ignored warning signs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Using voice-activation tech and nature-inspired soundscapes, these space are designed to give medical workers some respite from the Covid-19 front lines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An algorithm discovered dozens of Martian craters. It’s a promising remote method for exploring our solar system and understanding planetary history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists say they've got 20-million-year-old evidence of giant worms that hunted in pretty much the most nightmarish way possible. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Computational biologists used an algorithm meant to model human language to instead predict how viruses could evolve to evade the immune system. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists find an average of 40 microplastic particles per cubic meter of the northern water. The likely source? The synthetic clothing in our washing machines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Launching rockets from planes is a decades-old concept that never really took off. Billionaire Richard Branson thinks its time has come. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When humans over-exploit underground water supplies, the ground collapses like a huge empty water bottles. It's called subsidence, and it could affect 1.6 billion people by 2040. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It won't prevent teens from later becoming smokers. But some health experts say that focusing on the risk of addicting new smokers cuts off a chance to help adults quit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Most claims of running on “clean” electricity come with caveats, and many technologies required for round-the-clock renewable energy aren’t quite ready yet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A small group of king penguins have appeared on Martillo Island in Argentina. How they got there, and whether they will stay, is unknown. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The airplane in the movie is stripped down and doesn't have all of its brakes installed, making the calculations even more fun. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
