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Researchers recently tested whether a balloon-borne sensor could listen for venusquakes to learn about the planet's makeup. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new model explains the forces and body design features that limit maximum sprinting speed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Pinning down the number of “long-haulers” suffering from the mysterious condition is an important task. It’s also proving impossible. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Sea level rise will soon combine with a host of other environmental factors to produce dozens of floods each fall in US coastal cities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Nauka’s errant firings were likely the result of human error—and they raise concerns about the future of the country’s space program and its partnership with NASA. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
With a new train line threatening its habitat, the big cat may be the key to protecting this Mexican reserve—and everything else in it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hopes for a “normal” fall have been dashed by variants and low vaccine uptake. Businesses and the White House think requiring shots can turn things around. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Wolf puppies can’t understand human gestures as well as their dog cousins. The difference could help explain what makes dogs so special. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new formula measures the “mortality cost of carbon,” and how much would have to be removed from the atmosphere to save a single life. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Huge pyrocumulonimbus clouds just formed over fires in the West. Here’s why they could become more common on a warmer planet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Dozens of viruses don't use the same four nucleotide bases found in all other life. New work shows how this is possible—and perhaps more common than we think. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The birds aren’t producing sounds at random. Some of their strategies are surprisingly similar to ones used by humans. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
These high-energy explosions, brighter than billions and billions of suns, have recently been tracked for days, upending ideas about the cataclysms that create them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When the invasive swine root through soils around the world, they release as much carbon dioxide as a million cars. Good luck getting rid of them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
This robot can help a human assemble a bookcase by predicting what part they’ll want next and handing it over. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The latest in “electronic medicine” offers an alternative to temporary pacemakers and could help reduce tissue scarring. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Walls are meant to keep out rising seas—but that water still has to go somewhere. New modeling shows it could well end up flooding your neighbors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new report details global warming’s effect on the national park and its surroundings, including everything from its forests to the Old Faithful geyser. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If habitable worlds exist around certain stars, they’d have just the right vantage point to spy on Earth. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Using a novel device made from carbon atoms and a laser, researchers captured real-time electrical signals from muscle tissue. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The ability to spot Jesus’ mug in a piece of burnt toast might be a product of evolution. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The historic flight is only the second time that the rocket plane has carried people. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The technique can be used to track how water flows through plants—which could be key to breeding more resilient crops in an increasingly hot, dry climate. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The discovery could have a profound effect on cell research for many species of plants and animals, as well as the future of crops. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The instrument reads sunlight intensity to determine carbon dioxide in Earth’s atmosphere. Its findings could help reduce our carbon footprint. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scale markings reveal that this weird fish's lifespan is double what scientists first estimated. That also means they’re closer to extinction than we thought. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Don’t mess with Texans’ air conditioning. Here’s why some customers in the state had their thermostats remotely controlled. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Humans have been draining peatlands to grow crops for centuries. It's a huge, underestimated source of greenhouse gas, scientists say. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Hundreds of temperate lakes around the world are showing trends toward anoxia, becoming warmer, murkier, and less hospitable to cold-water species. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A phlegmy film is coating the coast around Istanbul—and warmer water could be to blame. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
