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Fighting Wildfires from Space

Jonny Dyer is the founder and CEO of a satellite company called Muon Space. The company’s first big project is a satellite constellation called FireSat. Jonny’s problem is this: How do you capture data from space to help manage wildfires around the world in near-real time? In thi ...  Show more

The Killer We Refused to See

After bacteria were discovered, it took scientists 200 years to figure out that they cause disease. If scientists had made the link sooner, hundreds of millions of lives could have been saved. In his recent book So Very Small, Tom Levenson, a professor of science writing at MIT, ...  Show more

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