Discovery & Inventions

Tue, 02 Nov 2021
Increases in extreme humid-heat disproportionately affect populated regions

The world is not only getting hotter but also more humid

The world is not only getting hotter but also more humid. New research by Washington State University scientists shows that people living in areas where humid-heat extremes are already a significant hazard are bearing the brunt of the impact. 

The study, published in …

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Tue, 02 Nov 2021
‘Ray guns’ let scientists use light instead of DNA to tell plant populations apart

‘Star Trek’ science fiction becomes reality

In Star Trek, characters carry a little handheld device called a tricorder that they can point at objects to analyze and identify them. When the show’s writers cooked up the idea in the 1960s, it was purely science fiction, but a paper in  …

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