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The Olympic swimsuits of today, garments which borrow concepts from materials science and take minutes to get into, are a far cry from the itchy, heavy wool of Paris' last games, in 1924. Read the full story with comments from Timothy Wei of Northwestern University and Mark Pinger and Greg Steyger of arena.

We know trees absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide, but researchers say they are also taking in another polluting substance. Read the full story with comments from Nicholas Ward of the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Vincent Gauci of the University of Birmingham, and Patrick Megonigal of the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center.

Climate change may be exacerbating all three drivers of turbulence, making for a bumpier future in the sky. Read the full story with comments from Shem Malmquist FRAeS of Florida Institute of Technology and Isabel Smith of University of Reading. https://lnkd.in/gUkaew7k

Roughly 60 percent of a crew’s pharmacy supplies could expire before finishing a deep space mission, according to researchers including Dan Buckland of Duke University School of Medicine and Tom Diaz of UNC Eshelman School of Pharmacy and Johns Hopkins Hospital. That could require self-sufficient equipment.

Polymetallic nodules at the bottom of the ocean appear capable of generating oxygen without any light, according to researchers including Andrew K. Sweetman of the Scottish Association For Marine Science and Franz Geiger of Northwestern University. “It appears that we discovered a natural ‘geobattery,’” Geiger said.

Purely parthenogenetic species don’t tend to stand the test of evolutionary time, but the bdelloid rotifer has found a way — thanks to some thievery. Read the full story with comments from Chris Wilson of the Department of Biology, University of Oxford and Maria Rosa Domingo Sananes of Nottingham Trent University.

Delft University of Technology researchers including Tom van Dijk and Guido De Croon harnessed the "snapshot" memory of insects to outfit tiny drones with enough computing power to navigate autonomously.

A commonplace medicine could revolutionize treatment of cobra bites and improve the survival rate from them, researchers including Greg Neely and Tian Du of the University of Sydney found.

A group of California Polytechnic State University (Cal Poly) researchers including Emily Taylor and Owen Bachhuber installed a camera at a unique den in Colorado, allowing the public to see hundreds of the slithering creatures living in close quarters. https://lnkd.in/gZ2RhT2Q