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I tracked dust mites through 300 homes

↑ Rubaba Hamid shafique, research associate at Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering in Islamabad, Pakistan Dust mites are microscopic creatures that live in rugs, blankets, and cushions,...

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Turkey and chicken poop have untapped energy potential

The following is an excerpt from The Other Science Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health by Lina Zeldovich. It was another hot day in the Negev desert of...

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Can ‘recharge rooms’ help frontline workers avoid pandemic burnout?

DURING NEW YORK CITY’S FIRST COVID-19 SURGE, an oasis beckoned stressed and exhausted Mount Sinai Hospital physicians, nurses, and other frontliners. During breaks or between shifts, they could sink...

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Agnes Chase, a grass scientist, showed us what ‘holds the earth together’

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, but someone else won the Nobel

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Your poop is useful. Meet the father-son team creating ‘humanure.’

I AM STANDING in the basement of 1550 Mission Street in San Francisco—a new high-rise in the city’s prime real estate location—listening to the steady hum of human grime being filtered. Above me,...

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Turkey and chicken poop have untapped energy potential

The following is an excerpt from The Other Science Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health by Lina Zeldovich. It was another hot day in the Negev desert of...

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Can ‘recharge rooms’ help frontline workers avoid pandemic burnout?

DURING NEW YORK CITY’S FIRST COVID-19 SURGE, an oasis beckoned stressed and exhausted Mount Sinai Hospital physicians, nurses, and other frontliners. During breaks or between shifts, they could sink...

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Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Turkey and chicken poop have untapped energy potential

The following is an excerpt from The Other Science Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health by Lina Zeldovich. It was another hot day in the Negev desert of...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Can ‘recharge rooms’ help frontline workers avoid pandemic burnout?

DURING NEW YORK CITY’S FIRST COVID-19 SURGE, an oasis beckoned stressed and exhausted Mount Sinai Hospital physicians, nurses, and other frontliners. During breaks or between shifts, they could sink...

View Article

Turkey and chicken poop have untapped energy potential

The following is an excerpt from The Other Science Dark Matter: The Science and Business of Turning Waste into Wealth and Health by Lina Zeldovich. It was another hot day in the Negev desert of...

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Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Your poop is useful. Meet the father-son team creating ‘humanure.’

I AM STANDING in the basement of 1550 Mission Street in San Francisco—a new high-rise in the city’s prime real estate location—listening to the steady hum of human grime being filtered. Above me,...

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Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovered pulsars, but someone else won the Nobel

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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I tracked dust mites through 300 homes

↑ Rubaba Hamid shafique, research associate at Institute of Biomedical and Genetic Engineering in Islamabad, Pakistan Dust mites are microscopic creatures that live in rugs, blankets, and cushions,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Can ‘recharge rooms’ help frontline workers avoid pandemic burnout?

DURING NEW YORK CITY’S FIRST COVID-19 SURGE, an oasis beckoned stressed and exhausted Mount Sinai Hospital physicians, nurses, and other frontliners. During breaks or between shifts, they could sink...

View Article

Agnes Chase, a grass scientist, showed us what ‘holds the earth together’

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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Esther Lederberg changed our understanding of how bacteria breed

The annals of science journalism weren’t always as inclusive as they could have been. So PopSci is working to correct the record with In Hindsight, a series profiling some of the figures whose...

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