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Keeping a Business Safe without a Mask Mandate Requires a Nuanced Approach
All remaining U.S. states with COVID-related public mask requirements have recently lifted them, and in mid-April, a district judge in…
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Will AI text-to-image generators put illustrators out of a job?
Imagen, from Google, is the latest example of an AI seemingly able to produce high-quality images from a text prompt…
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This Tick Can Make You Allergic to Meat and It’s Spreading
Kristina Carlson didn’t think much about the tick she pulled off her torso while she was hiking in the mountains…
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Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft launches to ISS despite thruster issue
At the moment, only SpaceX is able to launch astronauts to the International Space Station from US soil, but Boeing…
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Bottlenose dolphins can identify friends by tasting their urine
We already knew that bottlenose dolphins recognise each other through their signature whistles, but now it seems the taste of…
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Physicists Find a Shortcut to Seeing an Elusive Quantum Glow
Theoretical physics is full of weird and wonderful concepts: wormholes, quantum foam and multiverses, just to name a few. The…
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How did US baby formula get contaminated with dangerous bacteria?
By Carrie Arnold Low stock of baby formula at a grocery store in Athens, Georgia Shutterstock / The Toidi Nearly…
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Two newly described Amazon fish species are on the brink of extinction
New varieties of South American darter fish were documented in Brazil’s Apuí region. But deforestation in the area means they…
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How Mammals Conquered the World after the Asteroid Apocalypse
Every spring I bring my students to the desert of northwestern New Mexico, just north of Chaco Canyon, where the…
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Protein gel could help treat type 1 diabetes
The gel, which was implanted alongside a pancreatic cell transplant in monkeys with type 1 diabetes, releases a protein that…
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