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Environment
The Western Forests That Fill the Reservoirs Are the Ones Now Burning
Trace the water in a Denver or Sacramento tap back far enough and the pipe becomes a mountainside: a patch of conifer forest holding snow through the spring and letting it go into a creek. Most of…
By Oli Kotyk1mo ago3 min read
Environment
The Ground Under Antarctica's Ice Edge Is Still Poorly Mapped
At the edge of Antarctica, the geography that matters is the part nobody can see. Somewhere beneath the ice, the sheet stops resting on rock and begins to float. The shape of the ground it crosses on…
By Andreja Jezernik1mo ago4 min read
Environment
Wyoming's Snow Monitors All Sit in the Forest. The Water Is in the Drifts
In the last week of May 2025, six people spent the better part of a day digging a hole in the snow in Wyoming's Wind River Range. Federal wilderness rules bar power tools, so the pit went down by…
By Andreja Jezernik1mo ago4 min read
Space
The Small Asteroids Near Earth Are Darker Than They Look
Pull open the drawers of a large meteorite collection and one kind of rock keeps turning up: the gray, stony ordinary chondrite. The dark, crumbly carbonaceous meteorites (the ones that carry water…
By Diana Brinker1mo ago5 min read
Natural Disasters
Nobody Had Tested These Ice-Jam Equations on a Real River. Four Quebec Winters Did
Spring on the Chaudière River does not arrive quietly. The ice cover breaks into slabs, the slabs start moving, and where a tributary empties in they can stop moving all at once: a plug of broken ice…
By Anna Werner1mo ago5 min read
Space
A Rocket Sampled a Radio-Bending Cloud in Five Places at Once
Picture watching a street parade through a crack in a wall. Whatever passes the slit, you see. What passes to the left and right of it you miss, and the sliver you do see tells you nothing about…
By Victor Kuklin1mo ago4 min read
AI & Technology
Cattle Stem Cells Grew Muscle, Nerve and Vessel Cells at Once, With No Assembly Step
Capillaries in living tissue sit a fraction of a millimeter apart, and that spacing is why lab-grown beef has stayed flat. Muscle grown in a dish has no plumbing inside it and starves in the middle,…
By Gabriela Szalayová1mo ago5 min read
Environment
Most of Accra's Schoolchildren Are Over WHO Air Guidelines Once You Count the Whole Day
A child in Accra keeps two addresses. One is home. The other is a schoolyard, which may sit in a very different part of the city. Traffic fumes and traffic noise do not respect that split: both vary…
By Anna Kotlyar1mo ago4 min read
AI & Technology
Researchers Can Now Measure a Model's Bias in How It Thinks, Not Just What It Says
Sit a person at a keyboard and ask them to sort words as fast as they can: flowers here, insects there, then pleasant words here and unpleasant ones there. And something small and stubborn shows up…
By Oli Kotyk1mo ago4 min read
Space
Why Mars Kept Its Krypton and Lost Its Carbon
Mars has lost most of its air. Its krypton, though, is essentially where it started — a heavy noble gas still sitting in what is left of an atmosphere that a young Sun's wind spent hundreds of…
By Victor Kuklin1mo ago5 min read
Science
Whether Naming a Feeling Quiets the Amygdala Depends on Which Language Is Stronger
Say it out loud and something shifts. Naming a feeling ("I'm sad," "I'm anxious") is one of the few pieces of folk psychology to survive contact with a brain scanner: label the emotion, and the…
By Andreja Jezernik1mo ago4 min read
Science
Snake Embryos Coil Because Their Bodies Outgrow Their Guts
Crack a snake egg partway through incubation and you find an animal that does not fit the space it is in. The embryo is already a long ribbon of vertebrae and muscle, stowed inside the shell wound…
By Gabriela Szalayová1mo ago4 min read

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The Western Forests That Fill the Reservoirs Are the Ones Now Burning

The Ground Under Antarctica's Ice Edge Is Still Poorly Mapped

Wyoming's Snow Monitors All Sit in the Forest. The Water Is in the Drifts

The Small Asteroids Near Earth Are Darker Than They Look

Nobody Had Tested These Ice-Jam Equations on a Real River. Four Quebec Winters Did

A Rocket Sampled a Radio-Bending Cloud in Five Places at Once

Cattle Stem Cells Grew Muscle, Nerve and Vessel Cells at Once, With No Assembly Step

Most of Accra's Schoolchildren Are Over WHO Air Guidelines Once You Count the Whole Day

Researchers Can Now Measure a Model's Bias in How It Thinks, Not Just What It Says

Why Mars Kept Its Krypton and Lost Its Carbon

Whether Naming a Feeling Quiets the Amygdala Depends on Which Language Is Stronger

Snake Embryos Coil Because Their Bodies Outgrow Their Guts