News at a glance: Long-awaited malaria shots, risks of face recognition technology, and Japan’s first moon landing
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How giant ‘water batteries’ could make green power reliable
For times when wind and solar fall short, some utilities are turning to an old technology called pumped storage hydropower[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Zapping ‘red mud’ in plasma turns mine waste into valuable iron
A simple process quickly extracts iron and renders the rest largely benign[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Open-access papers draw more citations from a broader readership
New study addresses long-standing debate about whether free-to-read papers have increased reach[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Plan to allow wolf hunting in Europe to spare livestock could backfire, some scientists say
Many farmers support proposal to downgrade protection of wolves, which kill thousands of sheep on the continent each year[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Microbes that gave rise to all plants and animals became multicellular 1.6 billion years ago, tiny fossils reveal
Early eukaryotes found in ancient Chinese rock formation offer a “grand vision of life”[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Hate droopy carrots? Here’s how to keep them crisp
3D modeling exposes why carrots curl in the fridge[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Black community members, scientists object to plan to bury skulls from Philadelphia museum
Scholars critique “egregious” lack of archival research on remains of Black Philadelphians in the Morton collection[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Whistleblowers flagged 300 scientific papers for retraction. Many journals ghosted them
Saga highlights how slow, opaque action by publishers threatens the integrity of the research literature[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]
Argentina’s controversial new science head faces protests over cuts and privatization
Veterinarian Daniel Salamone thinks private enterprise could make research more relevant and efficient[#item_custom_guid isPermaLink="true"]