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Millions of people fly safely every day, but when plane crashes do happen, they can be catastrophic.
Science

Compared to driving, flying is extraordinarily safe – but why doesn’t it feel that way?

Why the safest way to travel can feel like the riskiest

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Gene Roddenberry, second from right, and Star Trek cast members visit the Space Shuttle Enterprise in 1976 with NASA Administrator James C. Fletcher, left. NASA
Science

‘Star Trek’ and NASA have intertwined legacies – the show championed diversity and inspired generations of real space scientists

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Environment

How D.C.’s ‘humanure’ fertilizer creates lush gardens and big profits while improving the environment

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Environment

A Spanish park has been free of wildfires for over a decade thanks to 18 donkeys

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Science

Spanish zoo study suggests that giraffes can do basic math

Does that look tasty?
Environment

Beyond birds and mice, free‑ranging cats eat a surprising number of insects

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Billionaire sees ‘useless’ Gobi Desert is the key to bountiful, money-saving clean energy

“This could be the new space of our civilization.”

Erik Barnes – 08/29/25
Billionaire sees ‘useless’ Gobi Desert is the key to bountiful, money-saving clean energy
Lei Zhang believes our future lies in a desolate desert.

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plastic bottles, clean energy, hydrogen, environment
Environment

The University of Cambridge found a way to reduce plastic waste and create clean hydrogen energy at the same time

Erik Barnes – 7/8/2026
drinking water, jacket, science, technology, environment
Technology

Texas engineers develop a jacket that pulls fresh drinking water out of thin air

Erik Barnes – 6/30/2026
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Environment

Kenyan teens create award-winning, affordable car exhaust filters made with corn cobs and algae

Erik Barnes – 6/25/2026
This look familiar?
Science

The drawer problem: Why so many of us can’t let go of our old electronics, and what we can do about it

Good Partner – 6/24/2026
Many U.S. apartments have individual heating and cooling systems that are less efficient than current technology.
Science

How window‑mounted heat pumps can give tenants efficient heating and cooling

Good Partner – 6/17/2026

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environment, pollution, ocean cleanup, olympics, plastic pollution
Environment

Solar-powered boat feasts on trash and could solve the ocean’s plastic waste problem

Erik Barnes – 6/16/2026
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Science

A bonobo’s make-believe tea party has scientists rethinking whether imagination belongs only to humans

Mark Wales – 6/5/2026
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Environment

As climate change causes flooding in London, experts found an effective, low-cost solution: beavers

Erik Barnes – 6/3/2026