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Bryan James, wearing protective goggles and latex gloves, holds a plastic bottle covered in a thick black substance.

How a Brazilian ‘mystery’ oil spill traveled 5,000 miles to Palm Beach

by Noah Lloyd
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Video: Building one of the world’s fastest drones

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by Bryce Van Laanen
Sundararaman Rengarajan holds a phone in one hand and taps on the screen with the finger of his other hand.

Tracking glucose is hard This app makes it easier with gamification.

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by Erin Kayata
A robot hand touching one finger to the finger of a human hand. The photo is overlaid with orange lighting.

Want to get better at using ChatGPT? Try empathy, research finds

by Cody Mello-Klein
A person points their finger at at a phone with three screens propped up.

10-inch folding phones are coming. Is their market ready to expand?

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by Cesareo Contreras
A hand in a latex glove holds a glass dish into which is poured particles of recycled tire rubber.

Tire rubber decays into a potentially dangerous chemical cocktail

by Noah Lloyd
A spoonful of finely ground coal tailings, dark brown.

Rare earth element extraction can be doubled with this new technique

by Noah Lloyd
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With some help from AI, your next move can be predicted

by Cody Mello-Klein

How string theory helped solve a mystery of the brain’s architecture

by Noah Lloyd
A river rushes by a damaged road with cones on it in Asheville after Hurricane Helene.

You’ve heard of climate change. What is the climate debt doom loop?

by Cynthia McCormick Hibbert
SpaceX’s mega rocket Starship makes a test flight from Starbase, Texas.

The next great space race: Building data centers in orbit

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by Cesareo Contreras
A woman standing next to a water tank in a marine science lab examines a sea star in her hands.

Starfish are dying from a mysterious disease. She hunts for answers

by Cody Mello-Klein