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These New Biomaterials Can Help Decarbonize Fashion and Construction

The Exploring Jacket isn’t your regular anorak. Its color comes not from dyes, but from a pigment-producing...

Hurricane Helene Shows How Broken the US Insurance System Is

On Tuesday morning, five days after Hurricane Helene ripped through Boone, North Carolina, David Marlett was on...

A hurricane’s aftermath may spur up to 11,000 deaths

Meghan Rosen is a staff writer who reports on the life sciences for Science News. She...

Scientists have traced all 54.5 million connections in a fruit fly’s brain

In the brain of a singular fruit fly, nerve cells weave themselves together, enabling flight, mating, eating,...

Thunderstorms churn up a ‘boiling pot’ of gamma rays 

Above the cloud tops, thunderstorms throb with a complex, frenetic light show of high-energy radiation. A view...

Dolphins’ open-mouth behaviors during play are like smiles, a study claims

Dolphins are known for what appear to be big, contagious smiles. But do they actually, well, smile?...

Formula E’s Race to Get the Whole World Electrified

When Formula E launched, it was ahead of its time. Not in the visionary sense—though it was...

Eight Scientists, a Billion Dollars, and the Moonshot Agency Trying to Make Britain Great Again

In a cramped conference room in Bristol, Ilan Gur is trying to convince a group of plant...

Coyotes have the face muscles for that ‘sad-puppy’ look

Coyotes turn out to have face muscles that look capable of making that big-eyed, sad-puppy face that...

23andMe Is Sinking Fast. Can the Company Survive?

23andMe is in trouble. Once a hot Silicon Valley startup, the genetic testing company has been in...

The UK Has No Coal-Fired Power Plants for the First Time in 142 Years

On Monday, the UK saw the closure of its last operational coal power plant, Ratcliffe-on-Soar, which has...

Why Hurricane Helene was so devastating

A perfect storm of climate, geologic and geographic conditions have combined to make Hurricane Helene...
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