Amy Nordrum is an executive editor at MIT Technology Review. Previously, she was News Editor at IEEE Spectrum in New York City.
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12:08
Why Did The Texas Power Grid Fail?
What happens when you don’t winterize your infrastructure. Plus, NASA lands another rover on the Red Planet.
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12:11
Trump’s New EPA ‘Transparency’ Rule Could Hamper Science
Critics say the new rule could be used to hamper new environmental regulations.
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12:03
Everywhere In America, COVID-19 Is Surging
Record hospitalizations arrives just in time for flu season. Plus, science you might have missed while you were waiting for election results.
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11:18
How Do You Solve The Problem Of Vaccine Distribution?
Questions swirl around how to prioritize who gets the first COVID-19 vaccines. Plus, an update on Space X’s Starlink satellite constellation.
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11:16
Three Missions To Mars
The United Arab Emirates, China and the U.S. are all launching missions to Mars this month.
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12:01
Research For Masks That Deactivate Coronavirus Receive NSF Funding
Plus, understanding false negative results in COVID-19 tests and the sounds of elusive narwhals, captured on tape.
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12:07
Big Data’s Latest On Tracking The Spread of COVID-19
Are you following stay-at-home orders? In some countries, the government will use cell phone data to make sure.
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7:15
A Close Call Collision In Near-Earth Orbit
Plus news about crab heath, graphene, and more in this week’s News Roundup.
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7:33
Underwater Soundtrack Hooks Fish
Scientists lured marine life back to degraded coral reefs by putting on a soundtrack of the clicks and pops of a healthy reef.
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7:05
Egypt Is Building A Massive 1.8-Gigawatt Solar Park
The $4 billion Benban Solar Park will be the country’s first utility-scale solar power plant.