Jupiter's Great Red Spot: A 300-year-old cyclone persists but is shrinking
The storm on Jupiter has lasted for centuries. Could the end be near?
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Ancient DNA is a powerful tool for studying the past – when archaeologists and geneticists work together
DNA is reshaping stories about our past, even overturning some theories.
Old stone walls record the changing location of magnetic north
Magnetic north has shifted over the centuries. These walls show just how much.
3 ways that big data reveals what you really like to watch, read and listen to
Advertisers and marketers struggled to predict the consumption of leisure products. Now data analytics is a powerful predictor of human behavior.
Together, more heat and more carbon dioxide may not alter quantity or nutritional quality of crops
Food crops show advantages is extra heat or carbon dioxide, but not both.
You can't control what you can't find: Detecting invasive species while they're still scarce
It is crucial to detect invasive species as early as possible.
Toward a circular economy: Tackling the plastics recycling problem
Many plastics can by recycled - but the plastic recycling infrastructure is flawed.
Will China's moon landing launch a new space race?
If China's successes continue to accumulate, could the United States find itself engaged in a new space race?
Skipping a few thousand years: Rapid domestication of the groundcherry using gene editing
Editing plant genes can dramatically speed the process of improving crops.