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Australian Scientists Genetically Engineer Common Fly Species To Eat More of Humanity
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Deep Breath
The Mysterious Discovery of ‘Dark Oxygen’ on the Ocean Floor
This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian. For more than 10 years, Andrew Sweetman…
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Infectious Disease
The Highly Infectious FLiRT Variants Behind the Summer Covid Wave
This story originally appeared on WIRED Japan and has been translated from Japanese. The northern hemisphere is entering yet another…
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2024 Election
Abortion Rights Groups Rush to Back Kamala Harris
Reproductive rights organizations have been quick to come out in support of Vice President Kamala Harris as the Democratic Party’s…
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The Puzzle of How Large-Scale Order Emerges in Complex Systems
The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine. A few centuries ago, the swirling polychromatic chaos of Jupiter’s…
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science
Enough With the Arrogant Attitudes Towards Extreme Heat
This story originally appeared on Vox and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A 4-month-old died in Arizona as…
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Hot Tips
How to Save Your Home From a Wildfire
THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Extreme heat has already made 2024 a busy…
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down time
The Global IT Outage Sends Hospitals Reeling
It was half past midnight Eastern Time when Andrew Rosenberg, an anesthesiologist and critical care doctor who works as chief…
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Animals
This Flamingo Laid Her First Eggs At The Ripe Old Age Of Seventy
Human mothers are getting older and older; as medicine and healthcare both improve, that biological clock is just ticking a…
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science
To Find Alien Life, We Might Have to Kill It
When is it OK to kill an alien life-form? In the movies, the answer is usually pretty simple: It’s OK…
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