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Fentanyl-related substances have a bad reputation, but they could also save lives. In the US, a legislative battle to expedite research is heating up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How did a lunch last underwater for 10 months? The answer relates to how carbon moves in the deep sea, and has implications for fighting climate change. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Audiology screening can be inaccessible for kids in low-resource areas. By utilizing off-the-shelf products, these scientists are trying to change that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Flexible e-skins could be used to measure wearers’ blood pressure, temperature, and oxygen levels in real time, assisting with diagnoses and health care. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Gene therapies promise long-term relief from intractable diseases—if insurers agree to pony up. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Medtech firm Earli is working on a way to make tumors announce themselves as they appear—and even provide directions to where they are in the body. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Interstellar Lab’s inflatable BioPod is designed to help plants survive inhospitable conditions on Earth and allow explorers to settle on the Red Planet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
As carbon concentrations rise, conditions are becoming more like they were 3 million years ago, when the area was wetter and the rain was heavier. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The fuel can be produced by adding bacteria to spent drill holes—meaning there are thousands of potential hydrogen sources worldwide. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
For years, potential therapies that attack this brain protein have failed to help patients in clinical trials. Now—surprisingly—a new drug shows promise. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Indoor agriculture promises to massively reduce the water and land needed to support crops. But at the moment, it only works for a tiny percentage of foods. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
By firing pulses quintillionths of a second long, physicists study the fleeting motion of an electron leaving two bonded atoms. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
New evidence indicates that an effort to stamp out disease-carrying insects is working. The key? Mosquitoes genetically engineered to kill off their own kind. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Fossil fuels are rapidly heating the planet, but their aerosols also help cool it. Just how much, though, is a major uncertainty in climate science. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The moniker, which honors a former agency administrator accused of enforcing anti-LGBTQ policies, has long been controversial. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Any smartphone in any car can pick up a span’s unique vibrations. Tracking how that changes over time reveals hidden structural problems. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The sprawling mass of suburbia has been a disaster for the environment. But now smaller, denser cities herald a renaissance in city living. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Despite efforts to reduce emissions, the 2022 FIFA tournament is highly carbon-intensive. And its road to net-zero relies on questionable carbon credits. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
After 30 years of talk about forcing wealthy polluters to compensate those bearing the brunt of climate damage, the COP27 conference seems poised to act. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Many people haven’t been exposed to common respiratory viruses following the pandemic, meaning they might be more vulnerable to getting ill this year. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A small study of people with a rare disorder that prevents them from processing protein is an early attempt at creating “living” medicines. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
In a small study, researchers modified patients’ immune cells to target their particular cancer—but it only worked for a third of volunteers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
It doesn’t take stampeding or unruly behavior to result in massive tragedies like the one in Itaewon. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Chemists have long conceptualized tiny machines that could fabricate drugs, plastics, and other polymers that are hard to build with bigger tools. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Scientists have already begun to observe the ecological effects of acidifying oceans on sea life. The changes ahead may be more drastic. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The US government is funding tech to determine whether genetic alterations in a virus or pest are an evolutionary quirk—or a lab-engineered danger. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Lubomila Jordanova explains how her carbon-reporting firm—Plan A—uses relentless data analysis to guarantee businesses aren’t greenwashing. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Climate change is disrupting delicate arctic habitats, which could unearth frozen viruses and transport them elsewhere. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Telescopes around the world are capturing photons from the blast, and researchers anticipate exciting discoveries ahead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
How shade is cast reveals details of the rugged lunar landscape, allowing NASA to create 3D models for astronauts and rovers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
