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How to stop a slimy blight from killing fruit trees

A new weapon offers a way to fight fire blight, a plant disease that destroys apple and pear trees and can leave fruit farmers with next to nothing.

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Safe spots protect creatures from acidic ocean

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carbon dioxide California Institute of Technology

Copper gets us closer to using CO2 pollution as fuel

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Carnegie Mellon University This tool lets you make your own robot ‘puppy’

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Brown University Why fish bend their fins like floppy slices of pizza

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Rice University How stretching skin makes prosthetic hand more useful

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Stanford University How artificial intelligence can teach itself slang

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Stanford University Are algorithms a fair way to predict who’ll skip bail?

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University of Arizona Why city planners should make water a top priority

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Stony Brook University Long-gone lake on Mars resembled those on Earth

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University of California, Davis Robots glide and dive to map ice shelves

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Cardiff University See new photos of Egypt and Palestine during WWI

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Northwestern University Hear the ‘chirp’ of gravitational waves passing through Earth

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Duke University Listen: What’s it like to be Muslim in America today?

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University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Exercise can even burn off fat in bone marrow

data science Northwestern University Mix mold and big data to find new drugs

Mars Brown University

Did hot impact melt ice to make valleys on Mars?

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decisions Stanford University

These words get people to eat more vegetables

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Charles Darwin Rutgers University

Scientists want to update Darwin’s ‘tree of life’

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hearts Vanderbilt University

This existing drug could keep heart valves bendy

"We believe there is potential for using this drug at the first sign of valve disease to prevent the progression," says W. David Merryman.

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emotions University of Florida

How abusive bosses make themselves miserable

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Marriage’s perks extend to LGBT older adults

Lots of studies link marriage with happiness among heterosexual couples, but new research looks at the connection for LGBT people over 50.

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forensics Stanford University

How just 13 DNA snippets could identify you

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Genomes reveal cause of disease in rare cats

The discovery of DNA abnormalities that cause genetic diseases in cats could protect the health of rare species and our pets.

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eyes Brown University

How vision stays steady as the world zooms by

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Telemedicine brings doctor to people with diabetic eye disease

A new study finds that telemedicine could make a big difference for people with diabetic retinopathy, the leading cause of preventable blindness in the US.

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addiction Brown University

Heroin users want to avoid fentanyl but can’t

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Could targeting myelin treat binge eating?

Researchers identified a gene in mice associated with binge eating and also found evidence that binge eating may alter myelin production in the brain.

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This tool lets you make your own robot ‘puppy’

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Why fish bend their fins like floppy slices of pizza