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Fog may be hiding secret ecosystems (opens the original)
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By Meghan Bartels edited by Sarah Lewin Frasier Fog has an eerie and enchanting way of coloring how humans perceive our surroundings—and scientists are discovering that the atmospheric phenomenon may remake microbes’ experience of their environment, too. Ecologists have primarily considered fog a source of desperately needed moisture for desert inhabitants as well as a vector for moving nutrients and microscopic organisms around. Until recently, very few have considered fog itself as a potential
Can NASA’s Roman Space Telescope solve the biggest problem in the universe? (opens the original)
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Can NASA’s Roman Space Telescope solve the biggest problem in the universe? The more scientists try to understand dark energy, the more its mysteries seem to grow. NASA’s newest space telescope is custom-built to crack the case By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings Scientists know so little about the most dominant force in the cosmos that they refer to it with a catch-all placeholder name: dark energy. This is the stubbornly mysterious something that’s causing the universe’s expansion to acce
These 4 bold projects could actually change our clean-energy future (opens the original)
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These 4 bold projects could actually change our clean-energy future Companies are making big bets on technology to solve lingering challenges in the clean-energy rollout. Here are four of the most ambitious projects By Meghan Bartels, Dan Vergano, Cody Cottier & Andrea Thompson edited by Andrea Thompson Two decades ago renewable energy was a bit player on the world stage. Today renewables account for nearly half of all global electrical capacity, according to the International Renewable Energy A
Did poop fuel paleontology’s vaunted Cambrian explosion? (opens the original)
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Did poop fuel paleontology’s vaunted Cambrian explosion? The Cambrian explosion is a critical moment for life on Earth—and it may have been all about poop By Meghan Bartels edited by Claire Cameron Some 540 million years ago, life on Earth suddenly got interesting. For 20 million years or so, evolution went into overdrive. Called the Cambrian explosion, scientists have no idea why it happened. “We see the first evidence of basically every major animal group all pop into existence,” says Karma Na
NASA’s Voyager 2 survives daring ‘big bang’ maneuver (opens the original)
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NASA’s Voyager 2 survives daring ‘big bang’ maneuver After 49 years in space, NASA’s Voyagers are running low on power—but an audacious move should extend the tenures of the two spacecraft By Meghan Bartels edited by Lee Billings “Big bang” is not a phrase NASA typically wants for describing any of its space missions, let alone its beloved twin Voyager interstellar probes. But engineers have successfully performed a delicate procedure with just that nickname on Voyager 2—a process they believe c
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