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Conway, who passed away on April 11, was known for his rapid computation, his playful approach, and solving problems with “his own bare hands.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
After his accident, Ian Burkhart didn’t think he’d ever be able to move or feel his hand again. A small chip in his brain changed everything. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Boston Dynamics' famously deft robot gets a job screening patients at a hospital. But there's still much that it and other medical robots can't do. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A decade after the worst oil spill in US history, researchers have turned out a massive data set charting the health of the ecosystem. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s hard for humans in New York City to get a test for the coronavirus. So when a Bronx Zoo tiger tested positive for Covid-19, it invited some questions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Two preprints of California serosurveys offer surprising estimates about the infection rate, and have caused a Twitter “peer review” uproar. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Oxygen is in the air. Getting it to a Covid-19 patient struggling to breathe can be trickier than it seems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As coronavirus takes hold and farmers plant crops, the continent faces a new wave of locusts 20 times larger than one earlier this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The scientific method isn't perfect, but it's better than the alternative when lives are at stake. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new Harvard study models how long we’d have to keep social distancing if the virus turns out to be seasonal, like its coronavirus cousins. It could be years. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The end result of the reaction is a raw material that can be reused in new products. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If knowing someone who has died would make the pandemic concrete for someone in the US—real and actionable—how many have to die? Here's the grim math. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers use models meant for infectious diseases to show how congestion proliferates. That may mean a vaccine for traffic jams is on the horizon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Instead of coding a mechanical quadruped's movements line by line, Google researchers fed it videos of real-life pups. Now it can even chase its tail. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Putting a price on emissions has become a bipartisan issue. Now we just need to do it the right way. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
We've been talking about the potential for the sun's energy for decades. Now it can be more profitable to save the planet than to ruin it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Rice has the biggest carbon footprint of any grain. Bite by bite, bacteria-guzzling minnows can make it much smaller. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Installing an array on your roof is environmental exhibitionism—and it's contagious. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new competition challenges scientists to innovate on how we map Earth's constantly shifting magnetic field—and make navigation safer and more accurate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
You're not the only one who finds #quarantinebaking so soothing. Turns out, it has a lot to do with the neuroscience of mindful meditation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As health care workers prepare for surges of Covid-19 patients, they must grapple with the ethics of rationing critical medical gear. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
While it might seem wasteful to test the seemingly-healthy, tracking antibodies could show how widely the virus has spread—and who may now be immune. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The national railroad system converted a TGV high-speed train to move 20 Covid-19 patients from Strasbourg to calmer hospitals in the Loire Valley. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When American whiskey evaporates, it leaves behind webs, or fingerprints of sorts, that could help sleuths identify counterfeit swill. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
We've been led to believe that robots and AI are replacing humans en masse. But this economic catastrophe is blowing up that myth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A 100-year-old way to beat disease could help researchers figure out how to harness the antibodies from earlier patients to help the newly infected. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
“Virtual visits” can be an effective way to decide who needs to be tested for Covid-19. But remote doctors can't diagnose or treat illness. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Epidemiologist Larry Brilliant, who warned of pandemic in 2006, says we can beat the novel coronavirus—but first, we need with lots more testing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Prestige Ameritech typically makes 250,000 masks a day. Now it's manufacturing 1 million daily, and turning away orders for 100 million more. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hollywood tells us humans are prone to lose all rationality in a disaster, looting and trampling one another. But that’s not giving our brains any credit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
