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Fusion power may run out of fuel before it even gets started
A version of this story appeared in Science, Vol 376, Issue 6600.Download PDF In 2020, Canadian Nuclear Laboratories delivered five…
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What Did COVID Teach Us about Preparing for a Plant Pandemic?
As the world continues to fight COVID-19, the menace of infectious disease has never been more apparent. The next devastating…
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Amber Heard and Britney Spears Highlight the Stigma of Women’s Mental Illness
The mental health of prominent women has faced particularly egregious public backbiting and scrutiny. This spring millions of online viewers…
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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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Climate Destroyers Go to Jail, Martian Travel Guide, Bee Interiority, and More
Fiction Power on Trial In a future where people hold the perpetrators of the climate crisis to account, what has…
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Beleaguered beagle facility closes under government pressure. Fate of 3000 dogs unclear
Facing growing financial and legal hurdles, a company that owns a troubled research beagle breeding facility in Cumberland, Virginia, said…
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Severe covid-19 symptoms linked to more than 1300 genetic variants
Hundreds of genetic variants may influence your risk of becoming severely ill with covid-19, a discovery that could lead to…
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England food strategy ducks big questions on health and environment
A major policy paper fails to address big health and environmental issues it was supposed to tackle, such as how…
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Has Google’s LaMDA artificial intelligence really achieved sentience?
Blake Lemoine, an engineer at Google, has claimed that the firm’s LaMDA artificial intelligence is sentient, but the expert consensus…
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Liquid mirror telescope opens in India
A unique telescope that focuses light with a slowly spinning bowl of liquid mercury instead of a solid mirror has…
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