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The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.It is late at night. You are alone and wandering empty…
Plastic pollution is hurting the environment and human health. Can the world do anything about it?
Microplastics are everywhere: In our pantries and refrigerators, in our oceans, in the headlines. The world produces hundreds of millions…
Enlarge / Young raccoon looking out from a tree. If you were looking for a reason to keep a flamethrower…
On September 6, the Missouri health department announced it had recently identified a new human case of bird flu. This…
A person in Missouri was sick with bird flu, or avian influenza, but as of now doesn’t have a known…
Enlarge / The Artemis II Orion spacecraft being prepared for tests at NASA’S Kennedy Space Center in Florida in June…
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Martin Tschammer, head of security at startup Synthesia, which creates AI-generated hyperrealistic deepfakes, says he agrees with the principle driving…
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At the Innovative Genomics Institute, a center established by Doudna in Berkeley, California, researchers anticipate that as delivery improves, they…