Popular Science - USA (2020 - Spring)
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 81 BORN 1891 The first Swiss Army knife featured a blade, a screwdriver, a can opener, and an awl— every ...
82 POPSCI.COM back to the land ...
SPRING 2020 83 To curb their climate impact, farmers are turning to ancient techniques that catch more carbon than they spew. by ...
84 when not forced to munch on sudangrass in 90-degree heat. He waxes eloquently about the wildlife habitat, erosion control, an ...
85 BACK TO THE LAND cancel out his bovine contribution to planetary disaster. Farmers and ranchers across the country are turnin ...
86 But exposing soil lets carbon compounds oxidize into the atmosphere, where they can no longer do what they’re meant to: feed ...
87 BACK TO THE LAND knee-high cash crop. With all these changes, his yields have remained roughly the same as his neighbors’. So ...
PopSci.com / Spring 2020 / PG 88 BIGGEST. DIG. EVER. One massive rail project, 10 millennia of history, 60-plus excavations, 143 ...
by Megan Gannon MAKING WAY Workers exhume rows of graves near London’s Euston Station, the terminus of a new train line. ...
Flinders completed the first circumnavigation of the “Terra Australis Incognita,” or “Unknown South Land,” in 1803. A decade lat ...
The initial 143-mile leg of the UK’s HS2 rail line will run through 60-plus historic sites. THE UNDERGROUND Birmingham by earthw ...
2019, Raynor’s crew had uncovered some 25,000 of the boneyard’s residents, including ghosts like auction- house founder James Ch ...
of architectural stones, pottery fragments, and tubes of sediment flank narrow aisles. Thanks to the glut of construction-backed ...
BY KAT MCGOWAN PHOTOGRAPHS BY THE VOORHES 94 IT’S ONE OF THE LONGEST RELATIONSHIPS IN HISTORY. SCIENTISTS ARE RECONSIDERING WHO ...
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This spiffy little terrier is volunteer number one on day number one of an ambitious project launched by Harvard University evol ...
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ago in Europe, Asia, or both), bones are mostly silent on the how and the why of this story. By studying other canids like foxes ...
POPSCI.COM/ SPRING 2020 99 on behavior—what Belyaev and Trut did. They’d stand out like a beacon, illuminating exactly which cir ...
people who have survived trauma. This swirl of friend-making ecstasy has inspired a rival origin theory that focuses on feelings ...
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