Newsletter www.wired.com What happens when you fly a science plane through wildfire smoke Aboard a decked-out C-130, researchers measure how smoke transforms from “fresh” to “stale” and begin to parse what that means for humans downwind.
Causes www.houstonchronicle.com Sand, water, and horsepower: Welcome to the year of the fracker Oil companies are on track to produce a record 10 million barrels of American crude a day, a milestone that could be reached as soon as February largely due to another record that is expected to fall in coming months.
