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April 2018^ DISCOVER^41 HENSHILWOOD/GRETHE MOELL PEDERSEN have territories of 12 to 25 miles in diameter, and researchers believ ...

42 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM WILLIAM ZUBACK/DISCOVER; ORANGE: NATALY STUDIO/SHUTTERSTOCK ...

COVER STORY April 2018^ DISCOVER^43 Biologists have a new tool to save oranges and other crops — if the public can stomach it. B ...

44 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM FROM LEFT: MICHAEL ROGERS/UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA/IFAS/CITRUS RESEARCH AND EDUCATION CENTER; ERNIE MASTROI ...

April 2018^ DISCOVER^45 This technicality — that it’s not transgenic, like putting a fish gene in a tomato — is leading U.S. gov ...

46 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM CLOCKWISE FROM BOTTOM LEFT: ERNIE MASTROIANNI/DISCOVER (2);. ERIC BETZ/DISCOVER (2) that this natural de ...

X Repeat Spacer Repeat Spacer Repeat Spacer Repeat Spacer Repeat Spacer IN THE LAB IN NATURE April 2018^ DISCOVER^47 TOP: WILLIA ...

NATALIE ERHOVA/SHUTTERSTOCK 48 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM diminish the crop. CRISPR’s precision lets scientists select specific genes ...

ERNIE MASTROIANNI/DISCOVER (2) Dennis Gonsalves came up with a GMO papaya that survived the virus, and he gave away the seeds fo ...

Sugarbeet Apple Alfalfa Squash Papaya Potato Canola Cotton Soybean Corn^38 20 15 10 8 2 2 2 2 1 50 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM SOYBEAN: ...

April 2018^ DISCOVER^51 ERNIE MASTROIANNI/DISCOVER (2) and somewhat dated quarters, Wang and his team have pushed the limits of ...

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ILLUSTRATIONS BY CREATIVE ICON STYLES/SHUTTERSTOCK (TOP LEFT) AND NADIINKO/SHUTTERSTOCK April 2018^ DISCOVER^53 If one MIT resea ...

54 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM BOTH PAGES: SAM OGDEN In a cluttered subterranean laboratory at MIT, Jung Tae Lee is attempting to make ...

April 2018^ DISCOVER^55 Army is interested in preventing battlefield friendly fire by developing threads with special optical qu ...

PHOTO: M. SCOTT BRAUER. ILLUSTRATIONS: JAY SMITH 56 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM Materials selection The first step to making a function ...

April 2018^ DISCOVER^57 TOP: JUSTIN KNIGHT/MCGOVERN INSTITUTE FOR BRAIN RESEARCH AT MIT. BOTTOM: OMNIGUIDE limit. By layering th ...

58 DISCOVERMAGAZINE.COM THIS PAGE FROM LEFT: AFFOA; SAM OGDEN. OPPOSITE: SAM OGDEN converts an electrical signal into a sound. T ...

April 2018^ DISCOVER^59 like patterns woven into the fabric; an ordinary iPhone camera can scan the pack from across a room to b ...

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