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- Agriculture
Robots will control everything you eat
Robots are now being introduced into all phases of how food is grown and prepared. In the future, though, they will be common.
- Planets
Saturn’s rings might be shredded moons
Final data from the Cassini spacecraft put a mass and a date of birth on the gas giant’s iconic rings.
- Animals
Analyze This: Electric eels’ zaps are more powerful than a TASER
Shocking! A biologist reached his hand into a fish tank and let an electric eel zap him. It let him measure precisely how strong a current it could unleash to defend itself.
- Climate
A meteor explodes over Michigan
Here’s how scientists tracked down the source of a heavenly explosion over rural Michigan, last week.
- Physics
Probing the power of the winds
Young researchers have been exploring the energy in wind to see how best they might tame it, harness it and understand its role in shaping the natural world.
- Climate
Explainer: Winds and where they come from
Temperature and pressure are critical factors affecting why the wind blows where it does. Understanding the nature of wind can teach us a lot about weather.
- Space
Scientists Say: Neutron star
When large, ancient stars die, they explode. But they don’t disappear. The remnants become incredibly dense neutron stars.
- Chemistry
Changing toothpastes? Change your toothbrush
Scientists have found that toothbrush bristles absorb triclosan, then release the potentially toxic chemical when users switch toothpastes.
- Science & Society
Kids make great citizen scientists
When professional scientists need help from a crowd, they often turn to kids and teens.
- Climate
Scientists at last link some extreme weather to human activities
Scientists say that research shows several of 2016’s extreme weather events would never have happened without the help of human-caused climate change.
- Physics
Major gravity experiment recreated aboard a satellite
A spacecraft was used to “drop” two objects and test their rate of fall. The new, super-precise findings confirm objects will fall at the same rate (in the absence of air resistance) — and that when it comes defining the effects of gravity, Einstein got it right.
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