Climate Science
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Scientists may have found a way to eliminate antibiotic-resistant infections
New gene-editing technologies may take down antibiotic-resistant bacteria once and for all.
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Scientists STILL haven’t figured out how to grow money on trees
Dang science. We'll write about it anyway.
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What’s with those melting ice shelves in Antarctica? We explain
First the Larsen A ice shelf crumbled, then the Larsen B. Now scientists are keeping close tabs on Larsen C, which is the size of Scotland.
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Scientists will never build a perfect climate model, but that’s OK
These NASA scientists live above Seinfeld's diner and predict the future.
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In search of artificial muscles, scientists have turned to onions
How squishy robots of the future could one day be made of gold-plated onion skin.
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Drought ended the Maya empire. Is California next?
If you thought America's drought problems are bad now, wait 'til you see what it can do to an entire civilization.
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Predicting the climate is hard. So one scientist wants to cut corners
Climate models take an enormous amount of time and energy to run, and they still aren't perfect. Here comes "inexact" modeling.
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These 2 heroic scientists died while studying the climate
Marc Cornelissen and Philip de Roo were studying the Arctic's lowest winter ice cover on record. Then they fell through it.
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Dear climate scientists: Just tell it to us straight, please
This researcher is calling out climate scientists for watering down their work to appease politicians.
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These satellites are keeping an eye on California’s underground water
To the list of benefits satellites offer us, we can now add "monitoring our disappearing water."