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New Food Preservation Technology Means No Need to Refrigerate
Scientists are experimenting with everything from microwave sterilization to blasts of plasma to ensure food stays appetizing longer.
The CDC Can't Fund Gun Research. What if that Changed?
Scientists want to know more about risk factors, gun epidemiology, and whether laws work.
What Sea Slugs Can Teach Us About Saving the Environment
It turns out that kleptopredation is an environmentally friendly strategy. Perhaps there really is honor among thieves.
Demonstrations of Bernoulli's Principle You Can Try at Home
To understand Bernoulli's principle, it helps to think of air as a bunch of tiny balls.
*The Flavor Matrix* Helps Home Cooks Pair Foods According to their Flavor Molecules
It teaches readers about the volatile compounds in food, and how to combine them in their cooking.
Wanna See Around Corners? Better Get Yourself a Laser
A clever system uses lasers and algorithms to map out-of-sight objects in 3-D. That could be great news for self-driving cars.
Inside Cryoport, the Company Delivering Next-Gen Cancer Immunotherapies
When you're sending a $500,000 vial of genetically engineered, cancer-fighting cells, a safe delivery can mean the difference between life and death.
Elusive Higgs-Like State Created in Exotic Materials
Two teams of physicists have figured out how to create a "mini universe," which could help researchers understand the strange behavior of deeply quantum systems.
Space Photos of the Week: 410 Light-Years Away, a Proto-Saturn Comes to Life
After a star forms, a leftover ring of dust and gas eventually forms into planets.
Winter Storm Riley Brings Massive Flooding to New England—Again
Add three to five feet of storm surge on top of a very high tide, and you've got a recipe for flooding.
If You Want a Robot to Stop Screwing Up, Hold Its Hand
We can't trust robots to learn everything on their own. For one startup, the solution is a very human touch.
GPS Isn't Very Secure. Here's Why We Need A Backup
The 24 satellites that keep GPS running in the US aren't especially secure. So private and federal groups are working on alternatives.
The Subtle Nudges That Could Unhook Us From Our Phones
People need help deciding where to place their attention. Tech companies could help ease our time-inconsistency.
The Secret to a High Tech Concierge Medical Office? Data
Managing electronic medical records is still a pain, but if a start-up can figure it out, better records could lead to new cures
Watch NOAA's New GOES-S Weather Satellite Launch Live
Assuming the 11,500-pound spacecraft makes it into geostationary orbit safely, it'll go by GOES-17.
Researchers Used This Genealogy Site to Build a 13 Million-Person Family Tree
One of the members is Kevin Bacon.
How Flight Simulation Tech Can Help Turn Robots Into Surgeons
A heaving robotic platform adapted from the tech that powers flight simulators could help train other robots to do surgery.
You Can Find the Gravitational Constant with String and a Mountain
Calculating fundamental constants used to be a much harder job.
With DNA Dating App Pheramor, You Swab, Then Swipe For Love
But the science of genetic compatibility is dubious at best.
Congress Takes On Sexual Harassment in the Sciences
New rules could make it easier to remove faculty members who harass or assault grad students and postdocs.
