Science and reality
Scientists are compiling a picture of the shadow of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way, and it could reveal general relatively breaking down.
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It didn’t take long for Mona Hanna-Attisha to realized that something was wrong with the water in Flint, Michigan.
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Climate scientists used to think their work was key to stopping climate change. But increasingly, they’ve realized that climate science barely matters at all in the fight.
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A fungus is killing amphibians all over the world. But on one tiny island, the people who study the amphibians have found a solution.
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A fungus is killing amphibians all over the world. But on one tiny island, the people who study the amphibians have found a solution.
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A fungus is killing amphibians all over the world. But on one tiny island, the people who study the amphibians have found a solution.
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An algal bloom in the Pacific is filling marine life (including crabs) with a potent neurotoxin. That's bad news for humans, but even worse for sea lions.
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Using a refurbished Cold War bomber, climate researchers are learning how superstorms really work.
The post A Flight to the Top of the Most Powerful Hurricane Ever appeared first on WIRED.
They're illegal in Europe and corporatized in the US, but genetically modified food crops might save Latin American farming.
The post Argentina May Have Figured Out How to Get GMOs Right appeared first on WIRED.
Sequencing the first 2,500 human genomes has been a long, hard process. Here's what science has learned about the ways humans are different.
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