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In the Aug. 18 SN: Water scarcity, Everglades on the edge, megacities face rising seas, signs of a liquid lake on Mars, a baby snake fossil, blood pressure and brain health, wildfires erase clean air gains and more.
Devin Powell's Articles
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Get to know your microbes at ‘The Secret World Inside You’
The American Museum of Natural History’s newest exhibit rehabilitates bacteria’s bad reputation and introduces visitors to the microbiome. - People
Atomic ant sand
Robb Hermes asked for sand ants to get samples of Trinitite, a material created in the test blasts of the first atomic bomb. - People
Prisons an unlikely laboratory
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Himalaya Rush
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Stronger storms may destroy ozone
Extra water vapor churned high into the atmosphere by climate change–fueled tempests could trigger destructive chemical reactions. - News
Polar bears' ancient roots pushed way back
Full genetic blueprints suggest the animals split from brown bears millions of years ago. - News
Field test stashes climate-warming carbon in deep ocean
Strategically dumping the metal stimulates a bloom of microscopic creatures that carry the greenhouse gas to Davy Jones’s locker. - News
How to walk on water
Physicists use X-rays to probe how a fluid can support a person's weight. - Reviews & Previews
Trinity
Others have already written the atomic bomb’s biography, and Fetter-Vorm doesn’t add new insights or historical scholarship. But he does provide a remarkably accessible — and frankly, beautiful — introduction to the events that ushered in the Atomic Age.
His graphic novel can’t be as thorough as the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes. Still, the thin hardcover presents the key events and introduces the major players. History is distilled into a series
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Trout nose cells follow magnetic fields
Iron-rich tissue may be at root of a biological compass.