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  • Hidden Diversity
    A California spiny lobster takes refuge in a crevice beneath the faintly pattered Scopalina jali, one of the new species of sponge described in this paper.
    Researcher describes four new species of sponge that lay undiscovered in plain sight
  • Uncertain Energy
    Rows of wind turbines stretch into the California desert with mountains in the background and solar cells in the foreground.
    Mathematicians and risk analysts are working to help modernize the country’s energy markets
  • Energizing India
    Giant wind turbines tower over a lush landscape that stretches off into the distance.
    India has an ambitious plan for developing more renewable energy; researchers say the country can aim even higher
  • Three Times the Gains
    Two trevally swim through a school of forage fish in Palau.
    Global study is first to map ocean areas that, if strongly protected, would help solve climate, food and biodiversity crises
  • Losing Rivers
    Leaky rivers are more widespread than scientists had thought.
    Leaky rivers are more widespread than scientists had thought.
    Researchers reveal the extent to which rivers across the country are losing flow to aquifers
  • Three-Dimensional Disadvantage
    breast imaging
    People searching for objects in 3D image stacks are less successful than when searching for the same in single 2D images

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  • Polycystic kidney disease illustration
    Hope on the Horizon
    Researchers in the Weimbs Lab find a method to potentially stop and reverse polycystic kidney disease

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