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  1. Tech

    Robots are gaining new capabilities thanks to plants and fungi

    Biohybrid robots made with plant and fungal tissue are more sensitive to their surroundings.

    By Aaron Tremper
  2. Archaeology

    Mount Vesuvius turned this ancient brain into glass. Here’s how

    Transforming the brain tissue to glass would have required an extremely hot and fast-moving ash cloud, lab experiments suggest.

    By Alex Viveros
  3. Space

    The International Space Station lacks microbial diversity. Is it too clean?

    Hundreds of surface swabs reveal the station lacks microbial diversity, an imbalance that has been linked to health issues in other settings.

    By Nora Bradford
  4. Science & Society

    Married men are doing more cleaning and laundry than in the past

    Some scholars argue that efforts to equalize the time men and women spend on housework has stalled.