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Strategies for a Changing Planet: Shelter
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Strategies for a Changing Planet: Shelter

By Kalee Thompson

Strategies for a Changing Planet: Awareness
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Strategies for a Changing Planet: Awareness

By David Roberts

FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?
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FYI: What’s the Hottest the Earth Has Ever Gotten?

By Daniel Engber

As Deadly White-Nose Syndrome Ravages Bat Population, Bats Change Social Strategy to Survive
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As Deadly White-Nose Syndrome Ravages Bat Population, Bats Change Social Strategy to Survive

By Rebecca Boyle

Rough Sketch: “A Snail Could Be Used as a Battery”
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Rough Sketch: “A Snail Could Be Used as a Battery”

By Evgeny Katz as told to Flora Lichtman

By Twisting Light Signals into a Vortex, Researchers Create Fastest Wireless Connection Ever
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By Twisting Light Signals into a Vortex, Researchers Create Fastest Wireless Connection Ever

By Clay Dillow

How Wireless Charging Will Keep Toxic Waste Out of Landfills
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How Wireless Charging Will Keep Toxic Waste Out of Landfills

By Brian Clark Howard

July 2012: The Future of the Environment
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July 2012: The Future of the Environment

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Nano-Firefly Tech Could Make Lights That Need No Electricity
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Nano-Firefly Tech Could Make Lights That Need No Electricity

By Rebecca Boyle

Archive Gallery: The Future of Food
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Archive Gallery: The Future of Food

By Julie Beck

Prospero the Swarming Farmbot Wants to Show You the Future of Agriculture
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Prospero the Swarming Farmbot Wants to Show You the Future of Agriculture

By Clay Dillow

April 1961: Popular Science Suggests Eating Hippopotamuses
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April 1961: Popular Science Suggests Eating Hippopotamuses

By Martin Mann

FYI: How Do Firefighters Tackle a Voracious, Out-of-Control Fire?
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FYI: How Do Firefighters Tackle a Voracious, Out-of-Control Fire?

By Rebecca Boyle

How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller
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How a Lab of College Students Invented the World’s Best Home Blast-Chiller

By Colin Lecher

Industrial Food Machine of the Day: Automated Lamb Boner
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Industrial Food Machine of the Day: Automated Lamb Boner

By Rebecca Boyle

Gallery: Ambitious Insect Catalog Snaps 3-D Images of Every Ant Species
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Gallery: Ambitious Insect Catalog Snaps 3-D Images of Every Ant Species

By Rebecca Boyle

Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark
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Megapixels: A Shark Eats a Shark

By Emily Elert

Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor
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Ultra-Tough Mantis Shrimp Claws Could Lead to Better Body Armor

By Rebecca Boyle

How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter Than You
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How Crows Recognize Individual Humans, Warn Others, and Are Basically Smarter Than You

By John M. Marzluff and Tony Angell

Video: What We Saw at the World Science Festival’s Innovation Square
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Video: What We Saw at the World Science Festival’s Innovation Square

By Becky Ferreira

Video: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat Into a Flying Quadcopter
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Video: Dutch Artist Turns His Dead Cat Into a Flying Quadcopter

By Paul Adams

A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface
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A New Way to Keep Deep-Sea Creatures Alive at the Surface

By Stephanie Warren

Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills
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Video: Paratrooping Roomba-Style Drone Concept Could Help Clean Oil Spills

By Colin Lecher

Are Cells Communicating With Each Other By Emitting Light?
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Are Cells Communicating With Each Other By Emitting Light?

By Clay Dillow

Video: MIT’s Latest User Interface Employs Gravity-Defying, Levitating Metal Orbs
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Video: MIT’s Latest User Interface Employs Gravity-Defying, Levitating Metal Orbs

By Clay Dillow

Talking to Dolphins: New “Dolphin Speaker” Produces Full Range of Dolphinese Sounds
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Talking to Dolphins: New “Dolphin Speaker” Produces Full Range of Dolphinese Sounds

By Rebecca Boyle

“Map of Life” Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small
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“Map of Life” Shows the Location of All Organisms, Large and Small

By Rebecca Boyle

Curious Things That Fall From The Sky
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Curious Things That Fall From The Sky

By Rose Pastore

High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works Where Wi-Fi Won’t
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High-Speed Data Link Made from Laser Pointers Works Where Wi-Fi Won’t

By Clay Dillow

The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA
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The First Drug Made by Genetically Modified Plants is Approved for Human Use by the FDA

By Clay Dillow

Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More Potent Bird Flu
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Amid Controversy, Scientists Publish Recipe For Making More Potent Bird Flu

By Rebecca Boyle

Turbine Condenses Clean Water From the Air and Generates Wind Power At the Same Time
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Turbine Condenses Clean Water From the Air and Generates Wind Power At the Same Time

By Rebecca Boyle

Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth’s Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable Internal GPS
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Neurons in Bird Brains Encode Earth’s Magnetic Field, Giving Pigeons Reliable Internal GPS

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes Higher to Find Stronger Winds
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Video: An Inflatable, Flying Turbine Goes Higher to Find Stronger Winds

By Clay Dillow

Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex
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Brain Scans Can Reliably Predict Future Behavior, Including Eating and Sex

By Rebecca Boyle

A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs
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A Computer Constructed From a Consortium of Live Crabs

By Clay Dillow

NASA Invests In Satellites That Beam Power Down to Earth
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NASA Invests In Satellites That Beam Power Down to Earth

By Rebecca Boyle

How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea
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How It Works: Building a Kilometer-Long Pipe Deep Under the Sea

By Rebecca Boyle

Enviropig, the Genetically Engineered Eco-Friendly Pork, Is Off the Table
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Enviropig, the Genetically Engineered Eco-Friendly Pork, Is Off the Table

By Rebecca Boyle

Where Are Henry David Thoreau’s Plants Now?
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Where Are Henry David Thoreau’s Plants Now?

By Rebecca Boyle

‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You
Technology

‘Cyberplasm,’ a Micro-Robot Modeled After the Sea Lamprey, Could Swim Around Inside You

By Clay Dillow

Swimming On The Hot Side
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Swimming On The Hot Side

By David Goodwillie

Climate Experts Weigh In on Our Record Heat Wave
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Climate Experts Weigh In on Our Record Heat Wave

By Dan Nosowitz

Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain
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Yes, Deepwater Horizon Oil Did Enter the Food Chain

By Rebecca Boyle

Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot
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Meet Robojelly, the Hydrogen-Powered Jellyfish-Shaped Immortal Underwater Surveillance Robot

By Rebecca Boyle

A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner
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A Taste of Exotic Meats at the Explorers Club Annual Dinner

By Paul Adams

Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies
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Too Much Monkey Business Leads to Monkey Vasectomies

By Rose Pastore

Breaking Blades: The Engineering Lab Where Wind-Power Propellers Get Built To Be Snapped
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Breaking Blades: The Engineering Lab Where Wind-Power Propellers Get Built To Be Snapped

By Peter Andrey Smith

Video: To Kill Predators, Japanese Honeybees Surround Them in a ‘Hot Defensive Bee Ball’
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Video: To Kill Predators, Japanese Honeybees Surround Them in a ‘Hot Defensive Bee Ball’

By Clay Dillow

Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake
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Video: Robot Squirrel Confuses a Snake

By Rebecca Boyle

Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast
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Russian and Korean Researchers Will Inject Mammoth DNA Into Elephant Eggs, Resurrecting 10,000-Year-Old Beast

By Rebecca Boyle

An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way
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An Ocean of Data: Looking for Sunken Treasure in a New Way

By Brooke Borel

Lasers Can Be Used to Steer Lightning In Mid-Strike
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Lasers Can Be Used to Steer Lightning In Mid-Strike

By Rebecca Boyle

MIT Laser Fibers Could Be Woven Together to Make 3-D Display Screens
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MIT Laser Fibers Could Be Woven Together to Make 3-D Display Screens

By Clay Dillow

Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here
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Holey Optochip! The One-Trillion-Bits-Per-Second Chip is Here

By Clay Dillow

Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere
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Video: Lego Space Shuttle Lifts Off for the Stratosphere

By Rebecca Boyle

Now Underway: the U.S.’s First Suborbital Balloon Factory
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Now Underway: the U.S.’s First Suborbital Balloon Factory

By Dan Nosowitz

Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes
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Japanese Home-Levitation System Could Protect Buildings From Earthquakes

By Rebecca Boyle

Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday
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Storm Watch: Driven By Warm Air, Massive Tornado Outbreak Forecast for Friday

By Rebecca Boyle

Earth’s Clouds Are Getting Lower, Which Could Be a Good Thing
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Earth’s Clouds Are Getting Lower, Which Could Be a Good Thing

By Rebecca Boyle

How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger
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How Pigs on Antibiotics Are Making Superbugs Stronger

By Rebecca Boyle

Thermoelectric “Power Felt” Fabric Lets You Sit on Your Phone to Power It
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Thermoelectric “Power Felt” Fabric Lets You Sit on Your Phone to Power It

By Dan Nosowitz

Russian Scientists Grow Pleistocene-Era Plants From Seeds Buried By Squirrels 30,000 Years Ago
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Russian Scientists Grow Pleistocene-Era Plants From Seeds Buried By Squirrels 30,000 Years Ago

By Rebecca Boyle

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Redesigning the Toilet to Produce Water, Fertilizer, and Energy

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