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Wildfires Are Contaminating Water Supplies

If you stood on the banks of the Cache la Poudre River in Colorado after the 2020...

Students Find New Evidence of the Impossibility of Complete Disorder

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In late 2017, Ashwin Sah and Mehtaab Sawhney...

A Rare Coincidence of La Niña Events Will Weaken Hurricane Season

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.The North Atlantic Ocean has been...

Scientists Plan ‘Doomsday’ Vault on Moon

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.In the fall of...

Mayo is weirdly great for understanding nuclear fusion experiments

Mayonnaise’s texture inspires love and loathing. Either way, it’s perfect for physics experiments.  The classic condiment is...

John McFall, the Astronaut Flag Bearer at the Paris Paralympics, Is Ready to Fly

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.John McFall’s sporting record alone...

2 spacecraft caught the waves that might heat and accelerate the solar wind

A lucky alignment of two sun-studying spacecraft may have finally solved a decades-old solar mystery. Data from...

Here’s how an arthropod pulls off the world’s fastest backflip

Move over, Simone Biles. Nature’s gold medalist for backflips is a millimeter-tall arthropod that can barely straddle...

A fluffy, orange fungus could transform food waste into tasty dishes

Using microbes to transform foods through fermentation is the secret behind many of our favorite flavors, from cheeses...

In a first, these bats were found to have toes that glow

You’ve heard of jazz hands? Well, these bats have glow toes. When ultraviolet light shines onto the...

Remote seamounts in the southeast Pacific may be home to 20 new species

Some 1,400 kilometers off the coast of Chile, rare deep-sea creatures drift along a garden of sponges...

A Look Inside the Airbus Factory Revolutionizing the World of Airplanes

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.This is the most important...
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