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The Purple Track at the 2024 Summer Olympic Games Has a Secret Ingredient

THIS STORY ORIGINALLY appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.Traditionally, the athletics track...

The New Gods of Weather Can Make Rain on Demand—or So They Want You to Believe

In the skies over Al Ain, in the United Arab Emirates, pilot Mark Newman waits for the...

The Bird Flu Threat Keeps Growing

Ongoing outbreaks of avian influenza have decimated poultry flocks and wild birds across the United States and...

Uncovering Magnetism’s Mysterious Role in the Galaxy

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Amid the roilings of the Milky Way, immense...

Last Monday Was the Hottest Day on Record

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.In the past week, Earth’s record...

Project 2025 Wants to Propel America Into Environmental Catastrophe

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.As delegates arrived at...

Dengue Fever Threatens to Gate-Crash the 2024 Summer Olympics

Every time the Olympics come around, it seems there’s a different disease stalking the event. At Rio...

No, You Can’t Have a Solar-Powered Passenger Plane

At a recent rally, Donald Trump stated that electric planes would be a bad idea because you...

Anthony Fauci Worries About the Next Pandemic—But Worries More About Democracy

Bound in a book, Anthony Fauci is finally unbound. For 54 years, the nation’s leading pandemic expert...

Polluted Lakes Are Being Cleansed Using Floating Wetlands Made of Trash

On the banks of Nagdaha, a polluted and lotus-infested lake in Nepal, Soni Pradhanang is putting trash...

How Soon Might the Atlantic Ocean Break? Two Sibling Scientists Found an Answer—and Shook the World

Off the southwest tip of Iceland, you’ll find what’s often called a “marginal” body of water. This...

The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.For more than 10 years,...
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