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Wind farms seem less productive when scientists incorporate more realistic atmospheric models into their output predictions.
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We need more data centers for AI. Developers are getting creative about where to build them.
Bend it. Stretch it. Use it to conduct electricity.
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The case for why NASA should pivot to searching for current — not ancient — signs of life.
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The history of music from bone flutes to Beyoncé.
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From surviving on wild plants and game to controlling our world with technology, humanity’s journey of progress is a story of expanding human agency.
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Tardigrades can completely dehydrate and later rehydrate themselves, a survival trick that scientists are harnessing to preserve medicines in hot temperatures.
Was the terror of Biscayne Bay a man who escaped slavery, an African chieftain, or a marketing ploy that went viral?
There is nothing more important to science than its ability to prove ideas wrong.
If you want to achieve new goals, harness your brain’s ability to change chemically, structurally, and functionally.
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