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• News | Energy & Sustainability

  World’s Largest Solar Array Set to Crank Out 290 Megawatts of Sunshine Power

  Megaplants like Agua Caliente in Arizona herald a new efficiency in solar-sourced electricity
  13 hours ago |Roni Jacobson |8
• News | Energy & Sustainability

  Sonar Spots Invisible Arctic Oil Spills

  Boom in Arctic Ocean drilling means hazardous leaks under ice, hidden from sight—but not from sound
  May 7, 2014 |Josh Fischman |2
• News | More Science

  Superheavy Element 117 Points to Fabled “Island of Stability” on Periodic Table

  One of the largest atomic nuclei known could lead to the discovery of elements that do not immediately decay
  May 7, 2014 |Clara Moskowitz |31
• News | Energy & Sustainability

  Transit Systems Have Started to Save Lots of Energy

  Public rail systems are harvesting and storing electricity from regenerative braking with the hope of making a profit on power sold back to the grid
  May 5, 2014 |Dave Levitan |2
• News | More Science

  Rebooting Civilization: Survivors’ How-to Guide for Restoring Technology after the Apocalypse [Excerpt]

  In his new book, astrobiologist Lewis Dartnell compiles the knowledge necessary for society to recover after a devastating disaster, including the basics of taking photographs
   
  May 2, 2014 |Lewis Dartnell |9
• News | More Science

  Human Sexual Responses Boosted by Bodily Scents

  Two human steroidal compounds may help scientists make sense of how bodily scents affect sexual arousal
  May 1, 2014 |Daisy Yuhas |6
• News | Science Education

  4 Robots That Teach Children Science and Math in Engaging Ways

  Modular, programmable automatons make STEM learning fun
  May 1, 2014 |David Geer |10
• News | More Science

  Antibiotic Resistance Is Now Rife across the Globe

  A first-ever World Health Organization assessment of the growing problem calls for rapid changes to avoid the misery and deaths of a potential "post-antibiotic era" 
  April 30, 2014 |Dina Fine Maron |18
• News | More Science

  Heavenly Sounds: Hearing Astronomical Data Can Lead to Scientific Insights

  Converting the energetic hail of cosmic radiation into audible tracks has produced better understanding of the solar wind and other astrophysical events—along with musical enjoyment
  April 30, 2014 |Adam Hadhazy |1
• News | Health

  Arthritis Research Looks to Unlock Secrets of Heart Disease and Depression

  Better insights into this ancient condition, with uncontrolled inflammation at its core, might reveal information about a host of other illnesses
  April 29, 2014 |Iain McInnes and The Conversation UK |1
• News | Health

  New Drug for Stomach Cancer Starves Tumors of Blood

  The medication could offer a way to fight other cancers as well
  April 29, 2014 |Roni Jacobson |1
• News | Technology

  Bitcoin Vies with New Cryptocurrencies as Coin of the Cyber Realm

  As hundreds of “altcoin” knockoffs are minted online, bitcoins no longer dominate as the principal form of digital currency
  April 29, 2014 |Morgen E. Peck |4
• News | More Science

  Many Prisoners on Death Row are Wrongfully Convicted

  Researchers estimate that more than 340 U.S. inmates that could have been exonerated were sentenced to death since 1973
  April 28, 2014 |Dina Fine Maron |6
• News | Ecology

  Fungus-Chomping Micro Predators Could Protect Amphibians from Deadly Skin Disease

  Microbes that thrive in lakes happily consume the pandemic fungus that has caused declines in more than half the planet’s amphibian species
  April 28, 2014 |Jennifer Frazer |1
• News | Energy & Sustainability

  Water Scarcity and the Private Sector
• News | Evolution

  The Beguiling History of Bees [Excerpt]

  The first bees existed around 130 million years ago at a time when our own ancestors were small, ratlike creatures
   
  April 25, 2014 |Dave Goulson |1
• News | Environment

  Good Friday Quake in Mexico City Tested Region’s Preparations for Bigger One

  The city’s unusual geology allows engineers and seismologists to rely upon exceptional safety measures
  April 25, 2014 |Erik Vance |
• News | Society & Policy

  U.S. Puzzles Over What to Do about E-Cigarettes

  Federal regulators propose new rules to answer long-burning questions about electronic cigarettes
  April 24, 2014 |Dina Fine Maron and Larry Greenemeier |2
• News | More Science

  Reprieve for Men: Y Chromosome Is Not Vanishing

  Alarming shrinkage has stopped, researchers say, because the Y is a bastion of elite genes that play vital roles throughout the body
  April 23, 2014 |Josh Fischman |13
• News | Technology

  As Drug War Rages, Tweets Reveal Mexicans’ Emotional Numbness

  Tweets from citizens on the front lines of the country’s conflicts with drug cartels indicate desensitization to the growing violence
  April 22, 2014 |Larry Greenemeier |4

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