No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane
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by Rhett Allain
15h ago
Guilt-free air travel is a beautiful dream, but there’s simply no way to get enough solar energy to keep a cabin full of people in the air ..read more
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Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash
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by Hannah Richter
2d ago
Platforms combining plants and recycled garbage could offer a cut-price solution for reviving polluted bodies of water ..read more
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Anthony Fauci Worries About the Next Pandemic—But Worries More About Democracy
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by Steven Levy
2d ago
The former public health lead opens up on serving under Trump, what dangers America faces right now, and what keeps him up at night ..read more
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How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World
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by Sandra Upson
2d ago
A gigantic, weather-defining current system could be headed to collapse. Peter and Susanne Ditlevsen had a simple yet controversial question: How much time might we have left to save it ..read more
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The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor
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by Mara Magistroni
2d ago
Researchers believe they have discovered oxygen being produced 4,000 meters below the sea surface, and think polymetallic nodules—the sought-after bounty of deep-sea miners—could be the source ..read more
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The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave
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by Ritsuko Kawai
3d ago
The latest dominant Covid variants have stronger infectiousness than their predecessors and the ability to evade vaccine-induced antibodies ..read more
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The Race for the Next Ozempic
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by Emily Mullin
3d ago
The next wave of obesity drugs could help people lose even more weight—and make some pharma companies a fortune ..read more
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There’s Another Chance to See the Northern Lights This Week
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by Isabel Fraser
3d ago
Don’t worry if you missed them in May—due to another geomagnetic storm, the northern lights might again be seen at lower latitudes across the US and Europe, from as early as Tuesday night ..read more
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Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
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by Emily Mullin
4d ago
Activists believe that the vice president, who is already the leading voice for reproductive rights in the Biden administration, will champion their cause ..read more
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The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems
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by Philip Ball
6d ago
With a new framework, researchers believe they could be close to explaining how regularities emerge on macro scales out of systems made up of uncountable constituent parts ..read more
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