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Once water gets more than about 200 feet deep, building on the sea floor is out of the question.
top science stories 2022
2022 was another busy year in the realm of science, with groundbreaking stories spanning space, materials, medicine, and technology.
liver drug covid
It should work for future variants, too.
It’s like radar, but with light. Distributed acoustic sensing — DAS — picks up tremors from volcanoes, quaking ice and deep-sea faults, as well as traffic rumbles and whale calls.
As far as we know, it's only happened once to one unlucky person in Oklahoma.
proton internal structure
Every proton contains three quarks: two up and one down. But charm quarks, heavier than the proton itself, have been found inside. How?
It’s an agricultural moonshot: Scientists hope to increase plant yields by hacking photosynthesis, the process that powers life on Earth.
Nearshoring may be the manufacturing model of the future.
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peer mentoring
When organized effectively, peer mentoring programs can offer substantial benefits for organizations and their employees.
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A concept known as "wave-particle duality" famously applies to light. But it also applies to all matter — including you.
Dead whales inspire a way to find extraterrestrial life on Mars.
cosmic rays
Particles are everywhere, including particles from space that stream through the human body. Here's how they prove Einstein's relativity.
A vitamin that makes your body repellent to mosquitos sounds too good to be true, because it is.
Its implications go well beyond the Earth itself, affecting even the future of space travel.
A 3D illustration of a typhoon as seen from orbit.
Retired astronaut Ron Garan believes that before we can begin solving our problems, we must understand our interrelatedness through the "orbital perspective."