The people and media outlets covering the science of how cities work.
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Follow Friday: The Secrets of How Cities Work
Welcome to Booze Science, Our Drunkest Video Series Ever
A new video series takes a look at the science behind cocktails---in the bar and at home.
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Google Street View Cars Now Sniff Pollution Instead of Wi-Fi
Google has partnered with an environmental testing startup to measure air quality within a city.
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Absurd Creature of the Week: The Two-Foot-Wide Sea Star That’s Basically a Bear Trap
Reigning among sea stars is Labidiaster annulatus, a two-foot-wide titan that menaces the waters around Antarctica.
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Manam in Papua New Guinea Unleashes Large Eruption
Manam in Papua New Guinea appears to have had a massive new explosive eruption.
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Asteroid Miners Can Learn a Lot From Philae’s Bumpy Landing
Philae's bumpy landing has importance for asteroid mining companies eager to excavate small bodies in space.
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What It’s Like to Watch a Species Go Extinct
When scientists talk about the sixth extinction, there's one example that stands out above all others: amphibians.
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Watch: The Mysterious Craters on Ceres Get New Names
The Dawn probe is circling in on Ceres and returning new topographic images of its pockmarked surface.
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The Physics of Some Seriously Awesome MythBusters Stunts
Let me use this episode to explain some basic scientific ideas.
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That Piece of Debris Won’t Tell Us Where MH370 Crashed
The currents of the Indian Ocean are way too complicated to backtrack where MH370 crashed.
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