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Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular disease and death.…
Many places are becoming increasingly unlivable. And around one-quarter of humanity is already dealing with drought and associated food insecurity.…
Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr is now being…
Is that really true? Yup. Look, I can prove it. Here’s a plot of the trajectories of the Earth and…
When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second…
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.During his campaign, president-elect Donald Trump had…
Zeldin, a 44-year-old attorney and former Army lieutenant, does not have a background in environmental policy. He made his foray…
“It’s a great algorithm,” said Erik Demaine, a computer scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. “It’s very fast, simple,…
In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper listed on the…
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.In recent decades, neuroscience has seen some stunning advances, and yet…