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Issue #72

The combustion chamber inside a jet engine funnels a hurricane of heat into the thrust that pushes planes through the atmosphere. | iStock/Dexion5

May 22, 2019

Can we reduce jet engine pollution while improving fuel efficiency?

Transportation & Robotics

A new gene editing technique may explain how each piece of a flatworm's body can grow back into a new worm. | Illustration by Kevin Craft

May 13, 2019

Want to learn about rebuilding brain tissue? Go study a flatworm.

Environment, Health

What are current cancer therapies doing to the brain over the long term? | iStock/Jolygon

Apr 17, 2019

Michelle Monje: New therapies for brain cancer

The standard way to test new battery designs is time-consuming and expensive. This new method aims to change that. | iStock/anilyanik

Apr 5, 2019

Could AI be used to predict the useful life of batteries?

Artificial Intelligence, Materials, Technology & Society

California bills would mandate reducing, composting or recycling 75 percent of single-use packaging by 2030. | Photo: Karl-Friedrich Hohl/iStock

May 8, 2019

Q&A: Experts discuss the future of waste disposal