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Electric vehicle makers hope to roll out super long-lasting batteries. That raises interesting questions about resources, performance—and a battery's second act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
These creatures have evolved special "nanobodies" that may have an edge over human antibodies when it comes to developing a new treatment. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When you drive, tiny bits of plastic fly off your tires and brakes. Now scientists have shown how all that road muck is blowing into “pristine” environments like the Arctic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It’s not useful to think about coronavirus coming in synchronized surges. This is a long, lingering epidemic that is only just getting started. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Honestly, you should just be disinfecting your reusable bags—the real issue is airborne virus, not infected shopping totes, experts say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Four-time USA Memory Champion Nelson Dellis and psychological scientist Julia Shaw explain how to boost your memory skills. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A massive, intense heat wave is settling over the continental US. The ravages of the Covid pandemic are going to make it all the more deadly. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers have been looking beyond antibodies to understand how immunity to the new virus might work—and how to design a vaccine. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new tracker from Harvard’s GenderSci Lab is the first to consolidate sex-separated data from across the US. It may help researchers solve the mystery. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If NASA's Perseverance rover finds life on the Red Planet, there's a good chance our first extraterrestrial encounter will be a little ambiguous. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers are discovering that magnetic fields permeate much of the cosmos. If these fields date back to the Big Bang, they could solve a cosmological mystery. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A quarter-billion years ago, huge volcanic eruptions burned coal, leading to the worst extinction in Earth’s history. Here’s how scientists hunted down the evidence. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When humans see purple, we’re really seeing a blend of red and blue light. Hummingbirds see purple plus ultraviolet—and lots of other nonspectral colors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Triso particles are an alien-looking fuel with built-in safety features that will power a new generation of high-temperature reactors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Today a Senate committee will hear about a bill that would help farmers adopt practices to release less carbon from the soil, reducing planetary warming. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Engineers are turning to generative design algorithms to build components for NASA’s next-generation space suit—the first major update in decades. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Without a DNA sequencer, two Los Angeles entomologists relied on two of biology’s oldest tools: microscopes and lots of free time. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Tiny bits of plastic are corrupting every corner of the planet. The major culprits: cheap synthetic clothing and washing machines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Every summer, an atmospheric event propels desert dust thousands of miles across the Atlantic. This year is particularly bad, and timed terribly with Covid-19. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Later this year, astronauts on the American module of the ISS will be able to test out the toilet before NASA puts it on crewed vehicles for deep-space missions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new study estimates that there might only be 36 communicating extraterrestrial civilizations in our galaxy. But that number doesn’t tell the whole story. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Public health experts think Covid-19 risk is lower outside, and restaurateurs want to fill tables. It’s an easy solution—except for all the hard parts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Health experts want a 9/11 Commission-style report on the US pandemic response. They say we must forecast and prepare for outbreaks as we do for wars or weather. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
So far, no studies have shown that the anti-malarial drug can fight Covid-19, and agency officials say its potential benefits do not outweigh its risks. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Boston Dynamics is finally making its mechanical canine available for businesses and developers. But know that this puppy ain't for everyone. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Bristol Bay is heating up, killing fish as they try to swim upriver to spawn. It's a harbinger of climate change and hard times for fisheries. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The origin of these explosions of radio waves has long been an astrophysics mystery. Now one has been traced to an ultra-dense spinning magnetized stellar core. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This year, coal usage has dropped in the US, and renewables now generate more electricity. To some experts, the financial crisis is a clean energy opportunity. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Microbes are well known for working together in stressful environments. Scientists wanted to see how they would fare at a labyrinthine brain teaser. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
There’s a difference between people who never develop symptoms and people who just don’t have them yet. And that matters when calculating public health risk. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
