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Robert Boos

Silicon sphere
Science
A kilogram just isn’t what it used to be — and it might never be again
Ice cream sandwich
Food
Why are some brands of ice cream ‘meltier’ than others?
Colorado River
Environment
The Colorado River is crucial to the West’s water supply — and harnessing it was a feat
Sturgeon
Environment
Pacific Northwest sturgeon suffer as worldwide demand for caviar soars
Man on bicycle
Science
Survey finds bicyclists and motorists ignore traffic laws at similar rates
Lake Hermitage’s marsh creation project
Environment
The $50 billion plan to save Louisiana’s wetlands
Easton Glacier, Mount Baker
Environment
How will the Pacific Northwest change when its glaciers are gone?
Solar flare, May 5
Science
Biggest solar flare of the year showers the Earth
Baby powder commercial
Health
Women are suing Johnson & Johnson over talcum powder
Mackenzie Scott, aka Torres
Music
TORRES gets personal in her new album, Sprinter
Aided by reintroduction programs and changing public attitudes, wolves are making a comeback in the rural American West. On Isle Royale, however, they’re in a steep decline and unlikely to recover.
Environment
The world’s longest animal population study has bad news for wolves
CRISPR is different from other gene editing techniques. It emerged from basic research into how bacteria fight off infections. Scientists realized they could use CRISPR to identify and cut apart specific DNA sequences in any cell.
Science
A promising gene editing method causes ethical controversy
Shrimp trawler
Environment
A bright idea could help eliminate a fishing problem
Alan Rusbridger, editor-in-chief of The Guardian newspaper, pictured at the International Journalism Festival in 2014. Rusbridger will step down in the summer of 2015.
Media
The Guardian turns to climate advocacy to force change
A screenshot from a NASA video explaining the development of the zero-gravity cup.
Science
A zero-gravity cup lets astronauts get a handle on their coffee
Ben Mirin, beatboxer, bird watcher
Music
His beats are pretty fly for a bird guy
An image of a Patagonia beaver taken from a video by Motherboard.
Environment
It’s open season on Patagonia’s voracious, disruptive … beavers?
A bank of this lake thawed in the Gates of the Arctic National Park in Alaska, allowing the Okokmilaga River to cut through and drain it to sea.
Environment
Earth’s biggest natural fridge is turning into a greenhouse gas machine
An image of a 17,000-year-old cave painting of a wolf-like dog in Font-de-Gaume, France.
Science
Man’s best friend may have been the Neanderthal’s downfall
Joseph Riedel in recovery
Health
Finding humor wasn’t so easy for this screenwriter in recovery
Development
Babies don’t learn to fear heights the way we’ve long thought they do
Beaver
Environment
Beavers are being looked at as little climate change fighting machines
A man looks at a Neanderthal fossil at the American Museum of Natural History in New York.
Science
A new fossil may date humanity’s ancestor further back than we thought
Microscopic synthetic structures are specially shaped objects that perform or move in intended ways when acted on by swarms of bacteria.
Science
The dawn of the cyborg bacteria is here
Music, lyrics and video were already a perfect combination for the Internet generation when Cee-Lo Green wanted to drive people away from cat videos toward something they could own.
Music
Why lyric videos have taken the music world by storm
Isle of Wight coastal area
Science
Scientists dig in to paleosoil to find out why some civilizations learned to farm earlier
Conservation volunteers at the Boston Harbor Islands National Park.
Environment
Conservationists fight off invasive species at Boston’s Harbor Islands
Veto supporters rally in front of the White House on February 24, 2015, the same day President Barack Obama vetoed a Republican bill approving the Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada.
Environment
Keystone XL opponents find the FBI at their doors
A Google Maps image of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Franciso.
Technology
Want to know if the mall is crowded? That’s just one of the promises of future maps
Science
What’s in a dog breed? Less than you might think
Native Americans march during an anti-Keystone XL protest in Washington on April 26, 2014.
Environment
Native American tribes unite to fight the Keystone pipeline and government ‘disrespect’
A pipeline in Virginia
Environment
Change in climate and energy strategy is a key for the GOP’s road to the White House
Kirbati fishing
Environment
Rogue fishermen beware: Big Brother is watching you
Smartphone testing dongle
Science
How your smartphone soon may help test for STDs
Jennifer Lawrence and Amy Adams were paid significantly less for their work in "American Hustle'' than their male co-stars.
Culture
How Jennifer Lawrence keeps getting American Hustled by Hollywood
Brussels sprouts
Science
Scientists think they may have found a way to rewire your brain to like healthy foods
Ronald Evans
Health
A new type of diet pill could be a major breakthrough in treating obesity and a range of diseases