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Newsletter September 16, 2024: Back to potty talk (wastewater, to be exact)
“Multiple animal sources” definitely strikes me as one of the better-case scenarios for why a literal crap-ton of H5N1 virus is showing up in Texas’ sewers.
Did climate change aid this fossil discovery?
A new Herrerasaurus skeleton in southern Brazil may shed light on the origin of dinosaurs. Researchers count themselves lucky to have found it just in time.
The beautiful lunacy of Voyager 1
Some 15 billion miles away, an old spacecraft still chirps at Earth
The Ecological Poetry of Lichen
The self-sustaining ecosystem of fungus and algae holds a mirror to ourselves
Architecture Alive: A Bold Vision for the Biological City of Tomorrow
Rachel Armstrong on sustainable urban life, and the microbial technology that can get us there
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