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The structure, believed to have served as a ceremonial center 3,000 years ago, was discovered in Tabasco, Mexico. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sure, large crowds already carry a risk of transmission. It's just worse when you teargas people, make them cough on each other, and bus them to jail. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, more doctors are turning to telemedicine. That's a problem for tens of millions on the wrong side of the digital divide. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Passenger jets and cruise ships normally gather key weather data. But full docks and empty skies make it hard to predict the details of incoming storms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
To go that fast, it would need a ridiculous amount of fuel—and even then, it might never come back down. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The simplest hygiene tasks are the toughest to maintain—take it from the health care experts who have advice about how to make the habit stick. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Worried about infiltration from extremist groups or police surveillance, residents are turning to pre-internet tactics to help protect homes and local stores. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new analysis revealed what scientists believe is a passage from the book of Ezekiel. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Notice you've been elongating your words lately? You're actually loading them with a whooooole lot of meaning. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The Covid-19 crisis is an opportunity to rethink how cities are designed—and make them better equipped to stop disease from spreading. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It's not easy to relax in the middle of the Covid-19 pandemic. But there are some simple tips and techniques that can help you get some shut-eye. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Robert Crippen is the only living NASA astronaut to have flown on a new spacecraft for the first time. The Crew Dragon flyers will join his elite club this week. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When seasonal blazes descend on California, millions could be inhaling smoke, which is known to predispose people to lung diseases. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Urine can be used for landing pads, gardens, and drinking water. But will there be enough to go around? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Similar situations after natural disasters offer clues about the potential academic and mental health impacts of lockdowns. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Some regions, like the US and the UK, have seen their outputs fall by a third, due in large part to people driving less. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Walk like you're angry, and the emotionally intelligent machine will give you more room, leaving your personal bubble intact. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Physicists have long known that the universe is made from two kinds of particles: fermions and bosons. Now there's a third that behaves totally differently. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The idea of beaming solar energy to Earth with radio waves is decades old. But this weekend, the technology gets its first test in orbit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As restaurants have shuttered, the rats who depend on an eternal garbage buffet are becoming more bold and competitive—and looking for new homes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Multiple structures now keep the river from roaring into the Atchafalaya—but they may be inadequate against climate change. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s time to reconsider these earnest events—and find ways for kids to experience the joyous, collaborative nature of real scientific discovery. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Caddisfly larvae typically construct protective cases out of sand grains and silk. Now they're also using microplastic particles. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Harold White left NASA in December to join a new nonprofit focused on building the technologies to bring humans to the outer solar system and beyond. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Covid Coach, from the National Center for PTSD, offers exercises and resources for dealing with uncertainty, isolation, and unemployment. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
For those quarantined alone, the lack of human touch can feel agonizing. A neurological phenomenon called "skin hunger" explains why. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Blood centers across the nation are trying to get antibodies from coronavirus survivors to patients who want this experimental treatment. But it’s not easy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Fast laser pulses produce a shock wave in air that pushes water vapor aside. That clears channels in clouds for transmitting optical data from satellites. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Today, petroleum producers around the world will start shutting down wells after the Covid-19 pandemic caused demand to plummet. What took them so long? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Epidemiologists aren't surprised that virus was spreading in the US in early February. But those early days offer lessons for how to catch the next wave. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
