Science, Spoken

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Scientists Grew Mini Human Guts Inside Mice Feb 13, 2023

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These 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.

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At Last, the Milky Way Gets a Better Close Up Feb 10, 2023

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The largest catalog ever collected by a single telescope maps Earth’s 3 billion stellar neighbors—and helps track the dust that warps how we see them.

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The World’s Farms Are Hooked on Phosphorus. It’s a Problem Feb 09, 2023

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Half of the globe’s crop productivity comes from a key fertilizer ingredient that’s non-renewable—and literally washing away.

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Why Not Cover Ugly Parking Lots With Solar Panels? Feb 08, 2023

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In France, a plan to cover swaths of asphalt with photovoltaics will bring renewable energy even closer to urban areas where it’s needed.

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Hey EV Owners: It’d Take a Fraction of You to Prop Up the Grid Feb 07, 2023

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If 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.

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It’s Not Sci-Fi—NASA Is Funding These Mind-Blowing Projects Feb 06, 2023

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The space agency gave money to researchers working on liquid telescope mirrors, a lunar oxygen pipeline, and Martian building blocks made of fungi.

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Medieval monks were, in many ways, the original LinkedIn power users Feb 03, 2023

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Focusing wasn’t much easier in the time before electricity or on-demand TV. In fact, you probably have a lot in common with these super-distracted monks.

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Scientific Fraud Is Slippery to Catch—but Easier to Combat Feb 02, 2023

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Fakery spans “beautified” data, photoshopped images, and “paper mills.” Experts and institutions are employing tools to spot deceptive research and mitigate its reach.

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Lasers Are Mapping Scotland’s Mysterious Iron Age Passages Feb 01, 2023

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Digitized archaeology is making souterrains—subterranean passages in the Highlands—accessible in a way Indiana Jones could only dream of.

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The Tonga Eruption Is Still Revealing New Volcanic Dangers Jan 31, 2023

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One year later, researchers are still marveling at the power of the Hunga Tonga explosion—and wondering how to monitor hundreds of other undersea volcanoes.

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