The Atlantic

The Atlantic

[:es]Why There Are No Nuclear Airplanes[:]

[:es]Strategists considered sacrificing older pilots to patrol the skies in flying reactors. [:]
The Atlantic

[:es]Plants Can Hear Animals Using Their Flowers[:]

[:es]And they react to the buzzing of pollinators by sweetening their nectar.[:]
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[:es]Animals Keep Creating Mysteries by Sounding Weird[:]

[:es]The Cuban cricket crisis is the latest in a long history of human-animal misunderstandings.[:]
The Atlantic

[:es]Scientists Have Been Studying Cancers in a Very Strange Way for Decades[:]

[:es]By growing cells in unrealistic liquids, they may have inadvertently skewed the results of their experiments.[:]
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[:es]Who Gets to Look Out to the Edge of the Universe?[:]

[:es]For years, more men than women were allowed to use the world’s most powerful telescope—until the system changed.[:]
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[:es]What Chewed-Up Gum Reveals About Life in the Stone Age[:]

[:es]Chewed tar is an unexpectedly great source of ancient DNA.[:]
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[:es]When a Killer Climate Catastrophe Struck the World’s Oceans[:]

[:es]The worst extinction in Earth’s history offers chilling predictions for the planet’s future—and for humanity’s efforts to keep climate doom at bay.[:]
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[:es]Project Troy: How Scientists Helped Refine Cold War Psychological Warfare[:]

[:es]By working for the CIA, a crack team of researchers honed the United States’ first formal peacetime campaign of propaganda and manipulation.[:]
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[:es]The Dawn of Interplanetary Geology[:]

[:es]NASA’s newest Mars mission is poised to transform the most terrestrial of sciences.[:]