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Climate change is straining the world’s two favorite coffee species. Could a resilient 19th-century alternative solve the brew’s existential crisis? Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The state is ping-ponging between severe drought and catastrophic flooding. The solution to both? Making the landscape spongier. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Need to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Lab animals have long borne the brunt of drug safety trials. A new law allows drugmakers to use miniature tissue models or "organs on chips" instead. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The hottest West Coast tech 16,000 years ago was a “projectile point” for hunting game. Though tiny, the artifact tells an outsize tale. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
ClientEarth helps shape new laws and enforce old ones to protect the planet and its most vulnerable inhabitants. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
World Weather Attribution ties disasters and extreme conditions to climate change—providing crucial leverage for legal and policy battles. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A new study shows that as temperatures drop, nasal cells release fewer of the tiny protectors that bind and neutralize invading germs. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Flu meds and prescription drugs have been in short supply all winter—but the problem goes back over a decade. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Data from Sweden and the US suggests cash incentives increase uptake without denting people’s trust in vaccines or future willingness to get them. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Last year was one of the warmest measured, say NASA and NOAA. It would have been even more sweltering if not for La Niña, which will soon fade away. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Space agencies and companies aim to send people to the Red Planet. But settling there would be hell on—well, you know what we mean. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Some environmentalists warn the planet can’t handle so many people, but we may need to rethink our approach to rising populations. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
2022 was a breakthrough year for xenotransplantation, a procedure that could be a lifeline for patients in desperate need of a donor. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Holiday feasts tend to be salt-heavy—but early animal experiments are finding that overindulging in the condiment could take an emotional toll. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Instead of cutting out chunks of the genome to disable malfunctioning genes, base editing makes a smaller, more precise swap. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The epidemic has largely subsided, but largely because queer men seem to have learned more from AIDS and Covid-19 than the authorities did. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Europe’s energy crisis is forcing companies to switch strategies or close down. The industry’s future hangs in the balance. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Vast swathes of the country have been vindictively laced with explosives, threatening the civilian population both physically and mentally. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Whale-sized shonisaurs dominated the ocean 230 million years ago. A fossil cluster offers a fascinating glimpse at how they lived—based on where they died. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Growing crops to make plastic could theoretically reduce reliance on fossil fuels and even pull carbon out of the atmosphere, but at an enormous environmental cost. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The answer explains why electric cars are everywhere, but electric aircraft are still a novelty. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Big Data, drones, diagnostics—the United Nations and other groups hope to innovate the world out of a maternal and reproductive health crisis. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
During the coronavirus lockdowns, emissions of the potent greenhouse gas somehow soared. The culprit wasn't humans—but the Earth itself. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
An experiment at the Large Hadron Collider suggests there’s a chance of catching this elusive evidence as it floats through our galactic neighborhood. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Internet-connected thermometers can quickly show how influenza is spreading—so measures to control the disease can be targeted more effectively. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
US nuclear scientists have achieved the long-sought goal of a fusion ignition—but don't expect this clean technology to power the grid yet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
A briefcase-sized satellite will ping lasers at the lunar South Pole to locate ice and map it for future human explorers. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
The craft survived a 26-day voyage and a scorching descent. Now it’s time for NASA engineers to learn what went wrong—and what went right. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Physicists study starlight to find whether the fine structure constant, whose value makes our universe possible, really is the same everywhere. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
