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• Animals and plants help engineers light up cities, detect explosives, and predict natural disasters

  For decades, humans have modeled technology on observations of the natural world. But new discoveries about nature—and ...

  • Lindsey Doermann

• Google wants to be a 'good neighbor' by pledging $1B to Bay Area housing

  Google will help build 20,000 homes in the Bay Area over the next ten years by pledging $1 billion toward the goal, including ...

  • Ravie Lakshmanan

• Microalgae could be the future of sustainable farming

  You might not be able to stomach soybeans for breakfast, lunch and dinner, but the animals you eat do. Cultivation of the ...

  • The Conversation

• Here's why privately-owned cities are a terrible idea

  Over the last five years, something strange has happened at the eastern edge of Karachi, the crowded megalopolis in southern ...

  • Samira Shackle

• Ancient whales had four legs, and split their time between land and sea

  Whales belong in the ocean, right? That may be true today, but cetaceans (whales, dolphins, porpoises) actually descended ...

  • The Conversation

• Humans have completely destabilized land animal diversity

  Species living on land make up 85 percent to 95 percent of all biodiversity on Earth today. This is especially impressive ...

  • The Conversation