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New Abortion Laws Could Make Prenatal Genetic Screening Harder to Do
Ann was 15 weeks pregnant with her fourth child when the results of her prenatal genetic test came back last…
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How Connected Cars Can Map Urban Heat Islands
Early one May morning in 1927 researcher Wilhelm Schmidt attached a mercury thermometer to his car door and drove around…
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Are period-tracking apps still safe to use in the US post Roe v Wade?
Some period-tracking apps share data with third parties. With the rolling back of Roe v Wade abortion protections in the…
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How AI Facial Recognition is Helping Conserve Pumas
INTRO: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Ashleigh Papp. Papp: Mountain lions are now posing for their close ups.…
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AI generates photorealistic 3D scenes and lets you edit them as well
Artificial intelligence that creates realistic three-dimensional images could be run on a laptop and make it faster and easier to…
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Can farm and food waste power tomorrow’s airplanes?
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF It’s a painful truth for people who…
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Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert
As global temperatures rise, desert climates have spread north by up to 100 kilometres in parts of Central Asia since…
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Modern city dwellers have lost about half their gut microbes
Deep in the human gut, myriad “good” bacteria and other microbes help us digest our food, as well as keep…
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Your Body May Be Able to Repair Its Arthritic Joints with Help from Drugs or Surgery
“Cartilage doesn’t heal.” That’s what doctors often tell us when we injure the flexible tissue that lines our hips, knees…
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3D rabbit ‘hologram’ created by levitating screen using sound waves
Sound waves can be used to keep an object hovering in the air, and a new technique works even in…
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