Science

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Agriculture
Plant sensors could act as an early warning system for farmers
Using sensors made from carbon nanotubes, researchers discovered signals that help plants respond to stresses like heat, light, or attack.
Anne Trafton | MIT News Office
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Engineering
Synthetic diamonds may have just gotten way easier to make
Scientists in South Korea have developed a new technique for creating synthetic diamonds that works under ambient pressure.
Kristin Houser
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Brain
What hybrid mouse/rat brains are showing us about the mind
Modified mice with hybrid brains that include rat neurons could one day lead to new breakthroughs in neuroscience.
Kristin Houser
A person is holding a spoon in a pot with steam coming out of it.
Physics
How a scientist looking to prove his food wasn’t fresh discovered radioactive tracers and won a Nobel Prize
Sean Liddick and Katharina Domnanich and Artemis Spyrou
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CRISPR
New CRISPR system is 66% smaller but just as powerful
Kristin Houser
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Sustainability
Study: ancient technique holds thousands of tons of carbon, sequestered over centuries
Jennifer Chu | MIT News Office
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Animals
Jellyfish surprise scientists by learning without a brain
Kevin Dickinson
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CRISPR
New CRISPR tool has an “on/off” switch
Kristin Houser
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CRISPR
CRISPR is helping “de-extinct” the Tasmanian tiger
Kristin Houser
A water-saving cliff.
Climate Crisis
What Arizona and other drought-ridden states can learn from Israel’s pioneering water strategy
Sharon B. Megdal and Clive Lipchin and Gabriel Eckstein
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Biology
Scientists grow “human-ish” organs in pigs for the first time
Kristin Houser
A swarm of wild bees on the trunk of a tree.
Animals
The underappreciated benefits of wild bees
Ula Chrobak | Knowable Magazine
a close up of astrocytes, shown as red streaks, in the brains of mice
Neuroscience
Scientists discover a new kind of brain cell
Kristin Houser