Plan to drill in Alaskan wildlife refuge downplays climate impact, U.S. agency argues
Bureau of Land Management analysis flawed, wildlife officials say
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Podcast: Race and disease risk and Berlin’s singing nightingales
On this week’s show: what calling race a “risk factor” actually means, and a book on making music with animals -
The ocean’s tallest waves are getting taller
Wind-driven waves are growing fastest in the Southern Ocean, new study says -
Into the overworld: Ex–spy plane to see whether towering storms pose new threat to ozone layer
New NASA mission will probe the stratosphere over central United States -
China’s ambitious telescopes rise in the thin air of the Tibetan Plateau
Observatories to study gamma rays, gravitational waves, stars, and the sun take shape on the roof of the world -
Facebook fact checker has ties to news outlet that promotes climate doubt
CheckYourFact.com, an affiliate of The Daily Caller, accused of selective reporting -
Sticky proteins could protect crops more safely than chemical pesticides
Designer peptides kill soybean rust, a major threat that requires heavy fungicide use -
Fearing no-deal Brexit, European funder orders U.K. researchers to transfer grants
U.K. COST grant holders face bureaucratic headaches to shift grant administration out of the country by 1 May -
Emperor penguins flee unsteady ice after ‘unprecedented’ failure to breed
Second-largest colony abandons breeding site -
Lab-grown patch of heart muscle and other cells could fix ailing hearts
Now in animal tests, patch is big enough to stitch to a human heart -
Dengue vaccine fiasco leads to criminal charges for researcher in the Philippines
Rose Capeding could face years in prison for her role in clinical trials of Dengvaxia -
Who really touched the ball last? Chances are, you think it was the other player
Warped judgment about the order of events could cause some sports disputes, psychologists claim -
These origami robots could one day deliver drugs inside your body
Magnet-controlled bots can grasp and fold on command -
Scientists track Florida’s vanishing barrier reef
Warming is finishing off a decline that began 3000 years ago -
Jason advisory group prepares to shut down, as U.S. contract extension seems unlikely
Storied academic group unable to find new sponsor -
Baboons’ gut makeup is determined mostly by soil, not genetics
The microorganisms within the soil colonize the primates’ guts -
‘Audacious’ science ideas win huge funding boosts after selection by TED group
Protein design team and other science projects raise tens of millions of dollars from a network of donors -
First marsquake detected by NASA’s InSight mission
Faint quake is signal of seismicity in martian interior -
After ousters, MD Anderson officials try to calm fears of racial profiling
Investigations “not based on ethnicity,” administrator says at town hall meeting -
Three in four female physics undergrads report sexual harassment
Mistreatment may help explain low number of women obtaining physics degrees -
Global warming may boost economic inequality
Higher temperatures could account for 25% of “growth gap” between countries -
Just 10% of U.S. plastic gets recycled. A new kind of plastic could change that
The material can easily be separated from additives to produce pristine recycled plastic -
Top stories: Vaccine durability, the universe’s first molecule, and CRISPR’s powerful cousin
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Sodium batteries are one step closer to saving you from a mobile phone fire
New flexible electrodes help solid-state batteries last longer -
Exclusive: Major U.S. cancer center ousts ‘Asian’ researchers after NIH flags their foreign ties
Chinese American community fears ethnic targeting at MD Anderson by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and National Institutes of Health
