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Neuroscience

Dyslexic brain may solve some math problems in a roundabout way

Children with dyslexia rely heavily on right brain to do addition problems.

Tech

Hopping robot powered by explosions

A soft-bodied robot that can jump with the help of an explosion could one day aid search-and-rescue operations.

Environment

Crops take up drugs from recycled water

Plants irrigated with recycled wastewater can soak up tiny amounts of pharmaceutical compounds but what this means for human health is unclear.

Plants

Borrowed genes raise hopes for fixing “slow and confused” plant enzyme

Inserting some bacterial Rubisco chemistry into a plant might one day boost photosynthesis and help raise crop yields.