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Proposals for wind, solar, and battery storage projects are running into a logjam of paperwork and grid connection issues. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
You can tell a lot about a tree by its sway, so scientists are outfitting them with accelerometers. That could help the West better manage its water. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Young children across the world are inexplicably coming down with the liver illness, putting parents and doctors on alert. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A startup just showed that its OncoK9 test accurately sounds the alarm for aggressive and advanced cancers. The catch? These often have no cure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Graphite is made in blazing-hot furnaces powered by dirty energy. Until recently, there has been no good tally of the carbon emissions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The open science movement pushes for making scientific knowledge quickly accessible to all. But a new paper warns that speed can come at a cost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
With clinical vaccine trials for everything from HIV to Zika, messenger RNA could transform medicine—or widen health care inequalities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The autonomous aircraft have shuttled blood to rural, mountainous areas for years. A new analysis proves they’re faster than driving. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Rooftop solar panels are gaining popularity as the UK faces higher energy prices. But lower-income people are being left behind once again. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
After three attempts to run through a test of the Space Launch System, engineers spotted a leak and a faulty valve. The fixes may delay the first Artemis moon mission. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Volunteers are rushing to provide online counseling, art therapy, and stress relief for the more than 2 million Ukrainian children who have become refugees. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The area around the defunct power plant has been an unexpected rewilding success story. Now attempts to monitor progress are hampered by the war. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Brigades of volunteers are coming to the rescue of thousands of Pacific newts that perish each year as they migrate to their breeding grounds. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Barriers are going up rapidly as border projects and livestock farming increase, but they impede wildlife migrations and genetically isolate threatened species. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The FDA has approved daily disposables that release anti-allergy medication. Experts hope lenses could one day help treat cataracts and glaucoma. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A microsporidian pathogen is annihilating tawny crazy ants, an invasive menace of the highest order. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Big businesses set splashy climate targets but don’t always reveal their data. The Securities and Exchange Commission wants to change that—to protect investors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Changing the genetic makeup of trees could supercharge their ability to suck up carbon dioxide. But are forests of frankentrees really a good idea? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new proof significantly strengthens a decades-old result about the ubiquity of ways to represent whole numbers as sums of fractions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New research shows the snakes activate different sections of their rib cage, using their lungs as bellows to pull in air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A cosmic fluke helped Hubble spy Earendel, a giant star at the edge of the known universe that could tell us more about what happened after the Big Bang. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Finding therapy and support can be confusing. Here are some tips on how to get help, from understanding insurance websites to keeping track of the bills. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
For the first time, scientists get a look at what's going on under the park's geysers. It may even help them better understand the origin of life on Earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers got the machine to run nearly 13 feet per second. It ain't graceful, but this powerful technique is preparing robots for the chaos of the world. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Observatories require electricity and computing power to process data from deep space. Is there a way to make them run greener? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Keep throwing noodles against the wall if you want, but this tactic ensures the pasta's texture is just right every single time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
While observing fearful memories take shape in the brains of fish, neuroscientists saw an unexpected level of synaptic rewiring. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Extreme weather, from floods to wildfires, is increasingly hammering ports, highways, and factories. It’s expected to get worse. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hundreds of trials have been disrupted in the medical research hub. Some patients are at risk of losing their last chance at survival. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Astronomers tried to confirm a signal from the birth of the first stars after the Big Bang. They saw nothing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
