9 Science Stories That Restore Our Faith in Humanity
A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year
Sarah Lewin Frasier is assistant news editor at Scientific American and editor of the magazine’s Advances section.
A river’s “gut” revived, snake-saving social media, an intragalactic donut, and more success stories of the year
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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Costa Rica about decoy sea turtle eggs with the potential to catch poachers.
It has been a tough year, but science still brought us some weird, cool and quirky findings
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the world, including one from Panama about the toll lightning takes on tropical trees.
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The creature’s structure resists buckling and could lead to stronger and more durable architecture
Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one from Antarctica about how there’s something funny about penguin poop.
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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from all over, including one about how a lizard population responded to hurricanes by developing larger and stickier toe pads on average...
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Here are some brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about a 70-million-year-old mollusk fossil that reveals years back then had a few more days than we have now...
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