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  1. Tech

    Desalination pours more toxic brine into the ocean than previously thought

    Desalination plants help offset the world’s growing water needs, but they also produce much more supersalty water than scientists realized.

    By Jeremy Rehm
  2. Science & Society

    Here’s how the record-breaking government shutdown is disrupting science

    The partial government shutdown is taking many U.S. scientists out of commission and putting up hurdles to their research.

    By Laurel Hamers
  3. Climate

    A drill built for Mars is being used to bore into Antarctic bedrock

    An autonomous drill originally designed for work on Mars has its first mission in Antarctica.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  4. Animals

    How worm blobs behave like a liquid and a solid

    Blobs of worms flow like a fluid, plop like a solid and fascinate scientists.