Juneau can’t stop the floods, but it’s learning to see them coming
Two years ago, John Lowrey woke to the roar of water surging into his home. The 65-year-old retiree and father of ...
Textbooks may have misdrawn this basic brain structure for 100 years
The brain's microscopic wiring may need a different kind of textbook illustration. Instead of the smooth, narrow tubes commonly drawn e...
The future of large-scale experiments and their challenges in the digital era
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A trip down the road that will determine the fate of the Amazon
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Hidden “immune organ” in the skull may help fight brain cancer
Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have identified previously unknown lymph node-like immune structur...
What Shakespeare got wrong about AI
He wrote about a magic you could always stop. We built the kind that gets loose.He understood us better than science fiction ever has. ...
Yes, this summer really was as hot as you think it was
Let’s put this summer’s extraordinary heat in perspective.
Last week, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Admi...
Scientists recreated what mice saw from brain activity alone
Scientists have reconstructed short videos using only brain activity recorded from mice, effectively allowing researchers to recreate w...
As Russia attacks Ukraine’s grid, solar offers a path to resilience
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She governs a US territory. But she has no say in who mines its waters.
Lou Leon Guerrero, the governor of Guam, learned about the government’s plan to mine her people’s waters the same way everyone else did...