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Jan 8
Why NASA Is Streaming a Cat Video from Deep Space
Taters the tabby in glorious high def, showing an…
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Jul 31, 2023
Keep Your Electronics Out of Rice
There’s a couple big problems with this myth involving tiny grains.
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Dec 22, 2022
“EctoLife” Isn’t Real, and Here’s Where Artificial Wombs Fall Short
This press release is a blend of…
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Oct 20, 2022
Viruses Are the Dark Matter of Biology
Future Nobel prizes — and life-saving drugs — are certainly…
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Jan 13, 2022
3 Huge Challenges Crushing Cultured Meat
We’ll need to solve these problems if we want “lab-cultured”…
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Dec 20, 2021
Could You Be Identified By Your Poop?
The tech being used on dogs could soon target you. Could foreign…
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Aug 12, 2021
Our Internet Is Under Attack… From Fish and Sharks
Did you know that a shark can “smell” electricity?
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Apr 19, 2021
The Island On Our Maps that Doesn’t Exist
Does Null Island exist only to frustrate cartographers?
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Mar 30, 2020
The Curious Case of the Zombie Dogs
The experiment that contradicted death — and raised new possibilities of our own immortality
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Mar 4, 2019
The Do’s and Don’ts of Antibiotics
A microbiome scientist’s primer on using these weapons of mass…
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