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Teresa Carey is an award-winning filmmaker, journalist, and producer whose sea-going adventures — from solo ocean voyages to scientific expeditions — spark wonder and champion conservation through the power of story.

Biology

A bison bridge could bring herds over the Mississippi

The proposed Bison Bridge would be the world's longest wildlife bridge, providing safe passage for the animals over the Mississippi River.

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Climate Crisis

When AC and cool showers aren't enough, this app finds the shady streets to walk

Cool Walks, a new app from a public agency in Barcelona, is unique in that it allows users to choose the shadiest path to their destination.

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Outer Space

Say cheese: Life on these exoplanets may be watching us

Researchers flipped the viewpoint and asked the question of: if life on exoplanets existed, could they see us?

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Chinese canon employees must pass an AI smile test to go to work

Canon Information Technology's Beijing branch has launched a new type of employee monitoring — smile recognition technology.

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Entrepreneurs

Startup makes breast milk in a lab, which could replace formula

BioMilk, a food technology firm, has invented cultured breast milk that they hope will not only replace formula but even rival the real deal.

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Sustainability

Returning old clothes to the earth can help cotton grow again

An Australian cotton industry trade group aims to return used cotton cloth to the soil to help new cotton grow.

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Activism

Gardners and prisoners collaborate to create art

As a multidisciplinary artist and activist is creating "solitary gardens" in a collaborative effort between people in solitary confinement and volunteers on the "outside."

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Climate Crisis

To find leaking methane, ready the satellites

Researchers are using methane-hunting satellites to sniff out the potent greenhouse gas, helping to reduce methane emissions.

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Ecosystems

Scientists map the DNA from that strange pink snow

A group of European researchers have hiked the Alps to look into the phenomenon of pink snow. They have now sequenced the DNA from the algae that is the hallmark of the rosey color.

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Clean Energy

Goodbye AC: This new roofing material keeps houses cool

A scientist has invented “cooling paper” — a material that reflects the sun's rays off rooftops and even absorbs heat from homes and buildings. And it is made from recyclable paper.

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