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In June last year, a series of devastating wildfires tore through the Canadian province of Quebec, sending huge plumes of…
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Because the reactor removes the carbohydrates that microbes love, creating charcoal, the carbon that goes into the ground doesn’t become…
One of the most common viral elements that persist in human genomes is a chunk of DNA called an Alu…
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Metabolic details matter to predict health in the modern world, Ocobock says. The same genetic programming that arose to protect…
For Gastón Paladini, pork is a family affair. In 1923, his great-grandfather Don Juan Paladini moved from Italy to Santa…
You learn a lot about people by hanging out with robots. QT made it plain to me how much human…
Below is New York’s JFK Airport—notice the red hotspots of high subsidence against the teal of more mild elevation change.…
In September, Elon Musk’s brain-implant company Neuralink announced the much-anticipated news that it would start recruiting volunteers for a clinical…
The data scientist and author Hannah Ritchie expands on these examples in her upcoming book, Not the End of the…
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In 2015, Canan Dağdeviren was working as a postdoc at MIT when she learned that her aunt, Fatma, had been…