Help Yourself: How Sacramento Neighbors Turned Their Front Yards Into Cooling Stations
When the heat climbs in Sacramento, Joe Robustelli fills a cooler with ice and bottled water, carries it to the front of his house on a busy downtown…
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A Cornea Grown in a Lab, and a Patient Who Can See Again
For as long as there have been corneal transplants, the new cornea has come from someone who died and chose to give it.
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Within a Month: The Single Injection That Brought Hearing Back to Ten Deaf Patients
Four months after a single injection into her inner ear, a seven-year-old girl was chatting with her mother the way any child does, back and forth.
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The Fridge on the Corner: How Free Food Feeds Neighbors and Keeps Meals Out of Landfills
Dan Zauderer had seven slices of pizza and no good reason to eat them. He and his in-laws had already had plenty.
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The Popcorn Effect: How Wet Coffee Waste Becomes Coal-Grade Fuel in 90 Seconds
The world drinks a staggering amount of coffee, and every cup leaves something behind: a small, sodden clump of spent grounds.
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The Return of the Giants: Whales Are Filling the Southern Ocean Again
Scientists who have spent their careers around whales are hard to astonish. Then the research vessel Allankay came into the waters off the South Orkney…
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When the Grid Let Them Down, Pakistanis Went Up to the Roof
Somewhere in the last few years, a very large number of Pakistani families reached the same conclusion at more or less the same time: the electricity grid…
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The Ugandan Coffee Farmers Who Stopped Waiting for the Rain to Behave
For a coffee farmer, the rain has always been the boss. It arrives when it arrives, and the crop lives or dies on its schedule. Across Uganda’s Masaka…
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California Built Solar Panels Over Its Canals and Stopped Losing the Water
California moves a staggering amount of water through open-air canals, roughly 4,000 miles of them, ferrying it to farms and taps across the state. And all…
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The Reward for Leaving Your Truck at the Bar Is a Free Coffee
You did the responsible thing. You had a few, you looked at your keys, you left the truck in the bar lot and got a ride home. The reward for good behavior is…
