You hear the terms all the time, but what is meant by an active, dormant or extinct volcano?
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How We Tell if a Volcano Is Active, Dormant, or Extinct
Something Deep Inside Pluto Is Replenishing Its Atmosphere
A new paper pretty much rules out the notion that periodic comet impacts could be replenishing Pluto's nitrogen atmosphere.
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FDA Approves the First ‘Female Viagra’
The FDA approved the first drug in the United States that can be prescribed to treat a woman's low sex drive. But critics aren't so sure we need it.
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Saudi Arabia Is on the Cusp of Another MERS Outbreak
New cases of the MERS coronavirus are showing up at a rate the country hasn't seen since its big outbreak last year.
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Big Question: Why Does Tap Water Go Stale Overnight?
WIRED asked a chemist and a water sommelier about why your water tastes funky after a night in the open.
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Soylent Is So Metal, Guys
Thanks to environmental watchdogs, everybody knows how metal it is to replace real food with bionutrient slurry.
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The Guy Making Actual Cyborgs at Darpa
The Pentagon's mad-science division built the Internet, and now it has a new target for innovation: your body.
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14 Essential Sources for Getting Up to Speed in Science
Here’s some essential background material for helping you understand the world of science today.
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The Dreamer Making Sci-Fi Come True
With ideas straight out of a comic book, Elon Musk is making the future cool again.
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The Biochemist Who Made Editing DNA as Easy as Cut and Paste
The promises of total control over living genomes are about to come true---for better or for worse.
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