Your Top Science Stories for this Week
| Dramatic images of this year's snowpack compared to last year's show just how far below normal we are. | |
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| Signs of our life on land, pharmaceutical medications, bits of plastic and household chemicals are increasingly being found in ocean life. | |
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| Pacific mole crabs dig with astonishing speed. Benjamin McInroe, a Ph.D. student of biophysics at UC Berkeley, studies these crustaceans in an effort to eventually build a new generation of burrowing robots. | |
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| Meet Wisdom and Akeakamai. They became life-long partners on the dance floor 12 years ago. | |
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| In the 1980s, California towns used local zoning rules to block offshore oil and gas drilling. State lawmakers are considering a similar strategy to push back against the Trump administration. | |
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| The video, created using high-speed laser microscopy, shows a cancer cell genetically engineered to break down under four walls of blue light. | |
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