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Extra! Syriza's Second Chance

"Second Chance for Syriza," reads the front page of Greek financial daily Naftermporiki on Monday, following the election that returns the leftist party's leader Alexis Tsipras as prime minister.

With just over 35% of the vote, Syriza came out on top, leaving center-right New Democracy behind at 28%. But Tsipras' victory is less resounding than it was in January, with a record 44% who didn't vote.

Tsipras will form a coalition government with the Greek Independents, who were already part of his first government. The Syriza leader said obtaining a debt-relief packagewas the top priority, though he will be expected to oversee the implementation of tough austerity measures and major reforms, as part of the third bailout he agreed to. As today's editorial in newspaper To Vima puts it, "He is not allowed to fail."

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Gimme Shelter! Using Tech To Rethink How We Protect Endangered Species

Human-made shelters don’t always keep creatures out of harm’s way. Can technology help design a better protect birds and possums?

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In 2016, Ox Lennon was trying to peek in the crevices inside a pile of rocks. They considered everything from injecting builders’ foam into the tiny spaces to create a mold to dumping a heap of stones into a CT scanner. Still, they couldn’t get the data they were after: how to stack rocks so that a mouse wouldn’t squeeze through, but a small lizard could hide safely inside.

Lennon, then a Ph.D. student at Victoria University of Wellington in New Zealand, aimed to protect skinks, snake-like lizards on which non-native mice prey. When road construction near Wellington displaced a local population of the reptiles, they were moved to a different site. But the new location lacked the rock piles that skinks use as shelter.

So, Lennon and their colleagues set out to create a mice-proof pile of rocks. It proved harder than they thought.

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