Tire toxicity faces fresh scrutiny after salmon die-offs
This article was originally published on KFF Health News. For decades, concerns about automobile pollution have focused on what comes out...
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Makers of the world’s largest 3D printer just beat their own record
After a five-year reign, the world’s largest 3D printer located at the University of Maine has been usurped—by a newer,...
Early trauma can shorten a red squirrel’s lifespan
Red squirrels living in Canada’s Yukon territory can have a pretty hard knock life. Bitterly cold winters, resource scarcity, intense...
Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA
Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots,...
Rare quadruple solar flare event captured by NASA
Earlier this week, NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) recorded a rarely seen event—four nearly-simultaneous flare eruptions involving three separate sunspots,...
Can AI help tell the difference between a good and bad sweet potato?
Most grocery store patrons take for granted just what it takes to transport a humble sweet potato out of the...
A ‘bionic eye’ scan of an ancient, scorched scroll points to Plato’s long-lost gravesite
A research team’s “bionic eye” deciphered thousands of new words hidden within an ancient scroll carbonized during the eruption of...
Why animals run faster than their robot doppelgängers… for now
Modern robotics is awash with human-made machines mimicking the animal world. From stadium-surveying robot dogs to daddy long-legs-inspired exploration bots...
This 400-pound prehistoric salmon had tusks like a warthog
About five million years ago, the North American Pacific Northwest was teeming with some pretty big fish that would have...
These birds help humans hunt for honey—but it’s not as sweet as you might think
What’s the weirdest thing you learned this week? Well, whatever it is, we promise you’ll have an even weirder answer...
NASA will unfurl a 860-square-foot solar sail from within a microwave-sized cube
NASA hitched a ride aboard Rocket Lab’s Electron Launcher in New Zealand yesterday evening, and is preparing to test a...
Inside the new $2 billion campus that GM hopes will launch it into the future
On the floor of General Motors’ new Design West building, various concepts and work-in-progress next-generation vehicles dot the vast, open...
