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June 5, 2015

A Better Way for California to Water Its Farms

There's a limit to how much produce farmers can eke out of the soil with the water that CA Governor Jerry Brown has given them to work with. Or maybe there isn't.

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June 5, 2015

Feedback: When art intimates life

Legal depositions, inimitable bowel syndrome, top shelf science and more (full text available to subscribers)

June 4, 2015

Listening to meteorites hitting Mars will tell us what’s inside

NASA's InSight mission may be able to use seismic waves from meteorite strikes to probe the Red Planet's interior

June 4, 2015

Researchers Are Finally Studying the Other Chemical in Pot

The THC in weed gets you high, but the compound CBD might have all kinds of important medical uses.

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June 4, 2015

Smart probiotics: Wiring friendly bacteria to take out disease

Forget about yoghurt. We're engineering bugs that will patrol our guts and take out pathogens (full text available to subscribers)

June 4, 2015

Cheap blood test reveals every virus you’ve ever been exposed to

Your blood keeps track of every virus you meet. Now a test can detect them all, perhaps exposing hidden infections or the causes of confusing conditions

June 4, 2015

Poisonous orange mini-frogs discovered in Brazilian forest

They are some of the smallest vertebrates on land, but seven species discovered in cloud forests in Brazil could already be under threat from climate change

June 4, 2015

Handstands and cartwheels turn dwarf mongooses into tough guys

Every centimetre matters for cute little dwarf mongooses: if they get their bottoms high in the air, other mongooses might take them seriously

June 4, 2015

First evidence of how parents’ lives could change children’s DNA

A process that wipes egg and sperm cells clean misses some genes out, explaining how your bad habits may affect the DNA of your children and grandchildren

June 4, 2015

Artificial DNA can evolve to expertly pick out cancer cells

Fake DNA letters designed in the lab can be coaxed to bind only to cancer cells. This means we could home in on the tumour cells and kill them