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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.

Genetics

This spit test will help couples know their baby's risk of genetic disease

A new genetic test offers prospective parents a "polygenetic risk score," or an estimate of their potential offspring's predisposition to certain conditions.

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Biology

Customized stem cells could show us how dementia happens

By turning human cells into induced pluripotent stem cells, researchers hope to finally map the genetic path to Alzheimer’s disease.

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Climate Crisis

Look at how much the planet has changed in four decades with Google Earth Timelapse

The new Google Earth Timelapse feature lets us scan the globe and look back from the present day to 1984 to see how human action and natural forces have changed the planet since the 1980s.

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“Phytomining” trees can extract metal from the Earth

Phytomining, a technique that uses trees to soak the metals out of contaminated soil, could offer new ways to mine for metals that are more sustainable than the existing, environmentally destructive methods.

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A seaweed diet could eliminate most of cows’ greenhouse emissions

Researchers found that feeding dairy cows just a touch of seaweed dramatically lowered the amount of methane emissions they released.

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Tech dump is finding a place for ex-offenders

Electronic waste is the fastest-growing garbage stream in the world. This nonprofit is counting on it to give formerly incarcerated people a head start.

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Rare wild coffee species brews hope for coffee’s future

A rediscovered coffee plant that can flourish in warmer climates, according to scientists, may be the future of coffee production, helping future-proof the morning ritual against climate change.

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Scientists may have found the secret to invisibility

Researchers have developed a unique light wave that, when beamed through an object, makes the object appear invisible to cameras and even the human eye. This could be the key to invisibility.

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This new crystal, produced with gunpowder, is stronger than diamond

Researchers have developed hexagonal diamonds — the mineral lonsdaleite — large enough to study in a lab and test their stiffness and hardness.

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Solar canals in CA could save 63 billion gallons of water a year

Researchers looked into what it would take to cover California’s canals with solar panels and found that the benefits of solar canals outweigh the costs.

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