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Matt Perko
Using virtual reality, an AI module for future vision prostheses, designed by Michael Beyeler’s Bionic Vision Lab, creates practical and useful artificial vision.
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![Textile waste fills a dump in Bangladesh.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-12/Clothing-waste-iStock.jpg?itok=51A605fw)
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Bdspn via iStock
Textile waste has become a major source of plastic pollution, with lower-income countries shouldering the brunt of the problem.
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![scientist holds a chip-scale ring resonator and a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-12/isichenko-laser-diode-resonator-uc-santa-barbara.jpeg?itok=Lz95_tR7)
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Sonia Fernandez
Andrei Isichenko holds the ultra-high-quality ring resonator (left), which can help turn the "coarse" light from a commercially available Fabry-Perot laser diode (right) into a low linewidth laser
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![Coconut palms stretch into the distance framed by tropical blue waters.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-12/coconut-palms-Fakarava-Atoll-istock.jpg?itok=j3FzWYRj)
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PeaceMan via iStock
Coconut palms account for more than one third of forested areas on Fakarava Atoll, French Polynesia, which falls far short of the region’s most heavily impacted atolls.
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The internal structure of a jet engine
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![Three mountain yellow-legged frogs perched on a rock.](/sites/default/files/styles/large_2340x1212/public/2024-11/three-frogs-rock-uc-santa-barbara.jpg?itok=06UJdheB)
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Roland Knapp
The Sierra Nevada yellow-legged frog is recovering in Yosemite, a beacon of hope for amphibian conservation.
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Aqueous Battery Consortium