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SpaceX must address dozens of environmental issues before it can upgrade Starbase in Boca Chica. The launch license needed for the Starship program remains pending. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Testing, vaccinating, and contact tracing can control the virus in Europe and North America—unless complacency allows it to take hold. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists are using genomics to create high-protein soybeans and peas. Their aim? To make meat and milk substitutes that can rival the real thing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Instead of deleting genes, epigenetic editing modulates their activity. A new paper tests if it’s able to undo a genetic effect of early alcohol exposure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers at the B612 Foundation’s Asteroid Institute developed a new tool for tracking space-rock trajectories—even with limited data. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A repeat encounter with Covid used to be a rarity. But now that Omicron has changed the game, expect reinfections to be the new normal. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
When faced with food insecurity, studies show that people opt for cheap, energy-dense meals that are bad for their health. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Photons wander through snow like ants through a nest. That inspired a clever new NASA technique for measuring the fluffy stuff from orbit. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A Finnish company says it has found a way to incorporate bone into ground chicken, lowering the production cost and environmental impact of the meat. But will anyone eat it? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It doesn’t even work yet, but nuclear fusion has encountered a shortage of tritium, the key fuel source for the most prominent experimental reactors. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Early theories suggested an underwater landslide caused a catastrophic mix of magma and seawater. Recent evidence reveals an explosion unlike anything studied before. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Mifepristone and misoprostol are a safe and effective way to end a pregnancy, but many people around the world still don’t know these drugs exist. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Rumbles and tides create tiny, detectable disturbances in fiber optics. The world’s cables could form a vast network for detecting earthquakes and tsunamis. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
By resolving a paradox about light in a box, researchers hope to clarify the concept of energy in quantum theory. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A long-term study of a marsh was meant to ask whether rising levels of CO2 could help wetlands thrive despite rising seas. The plants aren’t keeping up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The electric vehicle revolution is gathering speed—but what happens to all those polluting cars already on the road? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists have discovered “proto-peat” forming in the Arctic as the Earth naturally sequesters carbon, but it could take centuries to mature. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
After the InSight lander studied the strongest marsquake ever detected, scientists gave the space robot a negative prognosis because of its dwindling solar power. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Two new studies found genetic mutations that cause severe immune deficiencies are common in some remote populations, leaving them highly vulnerable to viruses. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
NASA’s EMIT mission will better analyze the grime from dust-spewing regions, a critically understudied factor in climate change. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The seedlings sprouted in the regolith scooped up in the 1960s and ’70s, but astronauts won’t be harvesting lunar spuds anytime soon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Tiny wobbles in Earth’s gravitational field could help detect big tremors faster, but they’re hard to tease out from the planet’s seismic noise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Researchers have created autonomous particles covered with patches of protein “motors.” They hope these bots will tote lifesaving drugs through bodily fluids. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The vast majority of tick-borne disease goes unrecorded, meaning life-threatening pathogens are traveling under the radar to new locations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
International experts are using earthly policies as models to hash out regulations for orbiting spacecraft, from preventing conflict to limiting trash. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The technique uses plants as fuel and sequesters the emitted CO2, removing it from the atmosphere. But scaling up would use gobs of water and land. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Climate change and human activity are destroying the layers of fungi, lichen, and bacteria that protect deserts from erosion. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists have finally found Antarctica’s missing groundwater, which will help them predict ice flows on the continent. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
If everyone ate just 20 percent less beef, deforestation rates by 2050 could be half as bad. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The nation follows the UK in permitting mitochondrial donation, which aims to prevent the transmission of rare but often fatal conditions. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
