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Libraries Are the Future of Manufacturing in the United States

Public libraries are becoming a one-stop shop for manufacturing in the digital age. Because libraries are investing in machines like 3-D printers, someday soon everyone with access to a public library could become an inventor or create something.

Justin Lynch

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Seals Take Hearing Tests—and Offer Insight Into Arctic Drilling’s Impact on Marine Mammals

How will Shell’s Arctic drilling affect marine mammals in the Chukchi Sea?

Alisa Opar

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Phone Cases Are in Style

Welcome to the next big fashion front.

Kyle Chayka

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How to Break Through Climate Change Apathy

New research finds framing the issue in specific ways makes a major difference in people's subsequent attitudes.

Tom Jacobs

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Which State Is in the Most Ecological Debt of Them All?

A state-by-state breakdown of who is more frugal with their resources and who is in ecological debt.

Clara Chaisson

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Bus Schedules in Chaos

Mathematics might explain why your bus never comes when you expect it.

Nathan Collins

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Rising Sea Levels Threaten Sea Turtle Eggs

Hatching rates on a remote island on the Great Barrier Reef are alarmingly low. Rising seas are flooding sea turtle nests on the island, but researchers are finding that's not the whole story.

Kate Wheeling