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Soybeans in Automated Greenhouse
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How To Genetically Modify a Seed, Step By Step

By Rebecca Boyle

The Second Green Revolution: An Alliance of Organic Farmers and Genetic Engineers
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The Second Green Revolution: An Alliance of Organic Farmers and Genetic Engineers

By Frederick Kaufman

Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough
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Italian Scientists Claim (Dubious) Cold Fusion Breakthrough

By Clay Dillow

Video: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a Cardboard Box
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Video: Panasonic Ships A Snowman 8,000 Kilometers to the Desert, In a Cardboard Box

By Rebecca Boyle

Volcanic Fury Overwhelms Indonesia
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Volcanic Fury Overwhelms Indonesia

By Lizzie Schiffman

Japanese Researchers Announce Plan to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth Within Five Years
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Japanese Researchers Announce Plan to Resurrect Woolly Mammoth Within Five Years

By Dan Nosowitz

Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells
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Injured Brazilian Wolf Is First Wild Animal Treated With Stem Cells

By Rebecca Boyle

Foxes Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Hunt Prey, Scientists Say
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Foxes Use Earth’s Magnetic Field To Hunt Prey, Scientists Say

By Rebecca Boyle

Farewell, Tevatron: Fermilab’s Particle Accelerator Will Cease Operation This Year
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Farewell, Tevatron: Fermilab’s Particle Accelerator Will Cease Operation This Year

By Clay Dillow

Video: Solar-Powered Car Sets New World Speed Record in Australia
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Video: Solar-Powered Car Sets New World Speed Record in Australia

By Dan Nosowitz

Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives
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Biostorage Scheme Turns E. Coli Bacteria into Hard Drives

By Clay Dillow

Frogs in Peril: A Race to Save a Threatened Frog With Risky Experimental Techniques
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Frogs in Peril: A Race to Save a Threatened Frog With Risky Experimental Techniques

By Susannah F. Locke

Potty-Training Pigs Cuts Runoff From Taiwanese Farms by 80 Percent
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Potty-Training Pigs Cuts Runoff From Taiwanese Farms by 80 Percent

By Clay Dillow

What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None
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What Cataclysm Killed the Birds in Arkansas (and Louisiana, and Sweden)? Maybe None

By Clay Dillow

Swedish Firm Proposes Configurable Cities With Buildings that Roll Around on Rails
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Swedish Firm Proposes Configurable Cities With Buildings that Roll Around on Rails

By Clay Dillow

Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test
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Giant Rats Can Detect Tuberculosis With Greater Accuracy than a Microscope Test

By Rebecca Boyle

Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators
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Five Hundred More Dead Birds in Louisiana Further Puzzle Investigators

By Clay Dillow

Video: Smartest Dog Ever Can Pick Out 1,022 Toys By Name
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Video: Smartest Dog Ever Can Pick Out 1,022 Toys By Name

By Rebecca Boyle

Nanotube-Tethered Flying Wind Turbines Could Harvest Energy At 30,000 Feet
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Nanotube-Tethered Flying Wind Turbines Could Harvest Energy At 30,000 Feet

By Rebecca Boyle

World Wildlife Federation Creates Unprintable .WWF File Format to Save Trees
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World Wildlife Federation Creates Unprintable .WWF File Format to Save Trees

By Dan Nosowitz

Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction
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Vatican Praises Genetically Modified Crops, While U.S. Judge Orders Their Destruction

By Rebecca Boyle

Breeding Silicon and Solar Power in the Middle of the Desert
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Breeding Silicon and Solar Power in the Middle of the Desert

By Clay Dillow

How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Feast
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How Science Is Changing Your Thanksgiving Feast

By Rebecca Boyle

Video: Elephant-Trunk-Inspired Robot Arm Grabs With Sensitivity
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Video: Elephant-Trunk-Inspired Robot Arm Grabs With Sensitivity

By Clay Dillow

Emirati Man Undertakes 200-Mile Desert Journey in Solar-Powered Wheelchair
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Emirati Man Undertakes 200-Mile Desert Journey in Solar-Powered Wheelchair

By Julie Beck

Wi-Fi Radiation Is Killing Trees, New Study Finds
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Wi-Fi Radiation Is Killing Trees, New Study Finds

By Dan Nosowitz

Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging Concrete
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Engineered Bacteria Can Fill Cracks In Aging Concrete

By Clay Dillow

Twelve Extreme Animal Modifications in the Name of Science
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Twelve Extreme Animal Modifications in the Name of Science

By Dan Nosowitz

US Carbon Trading Shuts Down, While Other Nations Step In To Fill the Void
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US Carbon Trading Shuts Down, While Other Nations Step In To Fill the Void

By Rebecca Boyle

Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights
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Trees Infused With Glowing Nanoparticles Could Replace Streetlights

By Julie Beck

Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu
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Scientists Discover Self-Cloning Lizard Species On Vietnamese Restaurant Menu

By Dan Nosowitz

In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare Delicacy
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In Twenty Years Chocolate Will Be A Rare Delicacy

By Rebecca Boyle

Climate Scientists Organize to Dispel Climate Misinformation
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Climate Scientists Organize to Dispel Climate Misinformation

By Rebecca Boyle

Underground Radon Detectors Could Forecast Earthquakes Days Before They Happen
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Underground Radon Detectors Could Forecast Earthquakes Days Before They Happen

By Morgen Peck

A New Greenhouse Could Provide Food and Oxygen To A Lunar Colony
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A New Greenhouse Could Provide Food and Oxygen To A Lunar Colony

By Susannah F. Locke

TED Talk: Laser Control of Headless Fruit Flies Uncovers Secrets of the Mind
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TED Talk: Laser Control of Headless Fruit Flies Uncovers Secrets of the Mind

By Rebecca Boyle

Archive Gallery: A Century of Progress in Renewable Energy
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Archive Gallery: A Century of Progress in Renewable Energy

By Denise Ngo

Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate
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Is Your Dinner Endangered? DNA Detectives Investigate

By Laura Allen

Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, Scientist Makes a Bot to Argue For Him
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Tired of Repetitive Arguing About Climate Change, Scientist Makes a Bot to Argue For Him

By Clay Dillow

Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology
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Bat Research Inspires Disciplines Far Beyond Biology

By Rebecca Boyle

Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says
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Increasing Wind Turbine Turn-On Speeds Could Help Reduce Bat Deaths, New Study Says

By Rebecca Boyle

Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?
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Can Technology Help Biologists Save Bats from Extinction?

By Rebecca Boyle

Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats
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Bat Conference, Day 1: Students Rush To Front Lines In Battle to Save Bats

By Rebecca Boyle

NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather
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NASA is Building a ‘Solar Shield’ to Protect Power Grids from Space Weather

By Clay Dillow

Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers
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Bees Solve Hard Computing Problems Faster Than Supercomputers

By Rebecca Boyle

Office Rice Paddy Turns Tokyo Salarymen into Urban Farmers
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Office Rice Paddy Turns Tokyo Salarymen into Urban Farmers

By Clay Dillow

Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs
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Video: Chinese Vending Machine Sells Live Hairy Crabs

By Paul Adams

GPS Chips Installed in Endangered Rhinos’ Horns To Combat Poaching
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GPS Chips Installed in Endangered Rhinos’ Horns To Combat Poaching

By Julie Beck

Six Months After The Leak, We Survey The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Up Close
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Six Months After The Leak, We Survey The Deepwater Horizon Disaster Up Close

By Jennifer Abbasi

A Prototype Greenhouse Demonstrates the Future of Farming on the Moon
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A Prototype Greenhouse Demonstrates the Future of Farming on the Moon

By Clay Dillow

Racing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools
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Racing to Save Bats From Catastrophic Extinction, Biologists Turn to New Tools

By Rebecca Boyle

Life On the Edge: Four Visions For Inhabiting a World Transformed By Climate Change
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Life On the Edge: Four Visions For Inhabiting a World Transformed By Climate Change

By Suzanne LaBarre

Archive Gallery: Science Fights World Hunger
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Archive Gallery: Science Fights World Hunger

By Denise Ngo

Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim
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Humpback Whale Makes The Longest Documented Mammal Journey With a 6,200-Mile Swim

By Dan Nosowitz

This Picture of a Mosquito Heart Is The Year’s Best Microphotograph
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This Picture of a Mosquito Heart Is The Year’s Best Microphotograph

By Julie Beck

How to Clean Up Hungary’s 16-Square-Mile Toxic Mess
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How to Clean Up Hungary’s 16-Square-Mile Toxic Mess

By Clay Dillow

Giant Undersea Network Will Bring Offshore Wind Power to East Coast, With Google Investment
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Giant Undersea Network Will Bring Offshore Wind Power to East Coast, With Google Investment

By Clay Dillow

Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain
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Planned Portuguese Eco-City Is Controlled By A Central Computer Brain

By Rebecca Boyle

World’s First Carbon-Neutral Convention Center Opens
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World’s First Carbon-Neutral Convention Center Opens

By Dan Nosowitz

Instant Expert: The Drama and Controversy of Fracking
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Instant Expert: The Drama and Controversy of Fracking

By Corey Binns

How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber
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How Modified Worms and Goats Can Mass-Produce Nature’s Toughest Fiber

By Rebecca Boyle

U.S. Military Aims to Use 50 Percent Renewable Energy Within Ten Years
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U.S. Military Aims to Use 50 Percent Renewable Energy Within Ten Years

By Dan Nosowitz

How the Empire State Building Is Pioneering the Future of Energy Efficiency
Technology

How the Empire State Building Is Pioneering the Future of Energy Efficiency

By Clay Dillow

First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More
Science

First Complete Census of Marine Life Catalogs Yeti Crab, Darth Vader Jelly, and 6,000 More

By Dan Nosowitz

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