- — The Climate Crisis Is Threatening Spain’s Saffron Crop
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at 2/4/23 6:00amGrowers fear a perfect storm for a tradition that has long bound rural communities together.- — MDMA and Psilocybin Are Approved as Medicines for the First Time
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at 2/3/23 2:12pmMany are celebrating Australia’s decision to pave the way for these psychedelic therapies, but questions around accessibility remain. - — What Would Earth’s Temperature Be Like Without an Atmosphere?
- at 2/3/23 7:00amIf you want to know what the cloud of gas that surrounds the planet is really doing for us, you have to see what the world would be like without it.
- — The Secret to Making Concrete That Lasts 1,000 Years
- at 2/3/23 5:00amScientists have uncovered the Roman recipe for self-repairing cement—which could massively reduce the carbon footprint of the material today.
- — Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice
- at 2/2/23 6:00amThese tiny organoids with working immune systems mimic the function of the GI tract and could be used to study intestinal diseases and drugs to treat them.
- — The Last Drug That Can Fight Gonorrhea Is Starting to Falter
- at 2/1/23 5:00amData gaps, funding cuts, and shyness about sex let gonorrhea gain drug-resistance. There are no new treatments yet.
- — Spotted a UFO? There’s an App for That
- at 1/31/23 1:19pmEnigma Labs launches a project to crowdsource and quantify data about “unidentified aerial phenomena.”
- — Why Bother Bringing Back the Dodo?
- at 1/31/23 5:11amAudacious plans to resurrect the long-extinct bird could be lucrative. But the moonshot raises thorny philosophical questions.
- — Did the Seeds of Life Ride to Earth Inside an Asteroid?
- at 1/31/23 5:00amBiological amino acids could have celestial or terrestrial roots. An experiment simulated their formation in deep space—but the mystery isn’t solved yet.
- — The Spaceport at the Edge of the World
- at 1/31/23 4:00amA tiny Scottish village is betting its future on rocket launches. But the plan may threaten the fragile landscape—and a tenacious billionaire’s ambitions.
- — The Case of the Incredibly Long-Lived Mouse Cells
- at 1/30/23 5:00amScientists kept the rodents’ immune T cells active four times longer than mice can live—with huge implications for cancer, vaccination, and aging research.
- — ‘Nasty’ Geometry Breaks a Decades-Old Tiling Conjecture
- at 1/29/23 6:00amMathematicians predicted that if they imposed enough restrictions on how a shape might tile space, they could force a periodic pattern to emerge. They were wrong.
- — The American West’s Salt Lakes Are Turning to Dust
- at 1/28/23 6:00amA new research and monitoring program aims to conserve threatened but overlooked saline ecosystems.
- — How Sensor-Dangling Helicopters Can Help Beat the Water Crisis
- at 1/27/23 5:00amA simultaneous solution to California’s extreme drought and flooding is to bank more water underground. Send in the choppers (and a few ATVs).
- — You Might Survive a Nuclear Blast—if You Have the Right Shelter
- at 1/25/23 6:00amThe escalating risks of Russia’s war in Ukraine have led scientists to study the unthinkable and model the aftermath of nuclear detonation.
- — The Problematic Arrival of Anti-Obesity Drugs
- at 1/25/23 5:00amFat activists say they’re tools of coercion. Celebrities are taking them to get slim. Is this really the road people want to go down?
- — Is It Time to Call Time on the Doomsday Clock?
- at 1/24/23 5:00amIt’s been ticking down the seconds to nuclear apocalypse for three-quarters of a century, but it’s not so helpful when it comes to climate change.
- — This Startup Is Using AI to Unearth New Smells
- at 1/24/23 4:00amGoogle Research spinout Osmo wants to find substitutes for hard-to-source aromas. The tech could inspire new perfumes—and help combat mosquito-borne diseases.
- — The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem
- at 1/23/23 7:00amHalf of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away.
- — Hey EV Owners: It’d Take a Fraction of You to Prop Up the Grid
- at 1/23/23 5:00amIf you agree to provide some of your car’s battery power in times of high energy demand, you’ll get paid, and help make the grid more stable.
- — Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels?
- at 1/23/23 5:00amIn France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.
- — Why the Search for Life in Space Starts With Ancient Earth
- at 1/13/23 6:00amNeed to estimate, from trillions of miles away, how likely another world is to host life? There’s a flowchart for that.
- — How Airports Catch Illicit Radioactive Cargo
- at 1/13/23 5:00amHidden screening devices are used to track the movement of dangerous materials—and recently caught a shipment of uranium at London’s Heathrow Airport.
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