Science
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10 Years After Sandy, Fire Island’s Fragile Beaches Are Holding Up
After Hurricane Sandy ravaged the Eastern Seaboard in 2012, Jared Della Valle took action. The storm had destroyed one of…
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Here’s Where Beach House Rentals Earn the Most Revenue
As hopeful home buyers flounder in a frustrating market, many are opting to hang on to rental properties in pricey…
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NASA Sees ‘Otherworldly’ Wreckage on Mars With Ingenuity Helicopter
The object resembles a flying saucer that crashed on Mars. And indeed it is. But it doesn’t belong to aliens.…
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Which Animal Viruses Could Infect People? Computers Are Racing to Find Out.
Colin Carlson, a biologist at Georgetown University, has started to worry about mousepox. The virus, discovered in 1930, spreads among…
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Is a Kitchen Island Essential? No, but You Know You Want One
As the kitchen evolved from a work space hidden from guests to the place where everyone wants to congregate, the…
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Cultivating Coveted Morels Year-Round and Indoors
When new buds emerge on trees and the ground warms with the advent of spring, foragers fan out through woodlands,…
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The Floodwaters Receded, and the Sun Brightened a New Beginning
In Olivia Tarplin’s living room, a pair of terra-cotta-colored velvet chairs face each other as if in conversation, basking in…
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Get Ready For the New, Improved Second
Modern civilization, it is said, would be impossible without measurement. And measurement would be pointless if we weren’t all using…
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Tripping Through the Universes
In 2009, two Stanford physicists, Andrei Linde and Vitaly Vanchurin, wrote a paper calculating the number of possible universes that…
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For Weary Workers, Video Backdrops Are Becoming Too Close and Personal
Jillian Amodio has run out of patience for Zoom. The whole window-into-your-private-life experiment was novel in the early, chaotic days…