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The Keys to a Long Life Are Sleep and a Better Diet—and Money
Nobel Prize–winning biologist Venki Ramakrishnan explores the science and charlatans of life-extension.
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Never-Repeating Patterns of Tiles Can Safeguard Quantum Information
Two researchers have proved that Penrose tilings, famous patterns that never repeat, are mathematically equivalent to...
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Insurance Rates Are Soaring for US Homeowners in Climate Danger Zones
Research shows the soaring costs hint at widespread, unpriced risk as the global climate warms, with...
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The Global Danger of Boring Buildings
Unloved buildings turn to ruin, leading to a deluge of construction waste worldwide. Designer Thomas Heatherwick...
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A Pill That Kills Ticks Is a Promising New Weapon Against Lyme Disease
Your pets can already eat a chewable tablet for tick prevention. Now, a pill that paralyzes...
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A Startup Will Try to Mine Helium-3 on the Moon
The Earth is in short supply of helium-3. The lunar surface may hold the answer.
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The Designer Who’s Trying to Transform Your City Into a Sponge
Kongjian Yu pioneered China’s “sponge city” concept—less concrete and more green spaces to exploit stormwater instead...
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States Are Lining Up to Outlaw Lab-Grown Meat
Around 46 million Americans live in states that have introduced bills to ban cultivated meat, the...
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You Can Count on Pi
On Pi Day we answer the burning question: Is there any world in which pi does...
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Climate Change Is Bad for Your Health, Wherever You Are
Rising temperatures are a threat regardless of where you live on the planet—they’re just dangerous in...
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So You Want to Rewire Brains
When everyone's hooking their brains up to computers, we'll need BCI surgeons to install the hardware.
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Get Ready to Eat Pond Plants
Meet the amazing azolla, a nutritious fern that grows like crazy, capturing carbon in the process....
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Rampant Wildfires Are Threatening a Collapse of the Amazon Rainforest
Rainforests in South America are burning this year faster than ever before, setting the course for...
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Stumped by Heat Pumps?
Our in-house physics whiz explains how a heat pump can warm your home without burning fossil...
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Selective Forgetting Can Help AI Learn Better
Erasing key information during training allows machine learning models to learn new languages faster and more...
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Solar-Powered Farming Is Quickly Depleting the World's Groundwater Supply
Farmers in hot, arid regions are turning to low-cost solar pumps to irrigate their fields, eliminating...
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Stop Misunderstanding the Gender Health Gap
Sex differences explain some of the gaping health inequalities between men and women—but a lot of...
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A 62-Year-Old German Man Got 217 Covid Shots—and Was Totally Fine
Hundreds of boosters over a 29-month period had little effect on the one person who tried...
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Cities Aren’t Prepared for a Crucial Part of Sea-Level Rise: They’re Also Sinking
Coastal land is dropping, known as subsidence. That could expose hundreds of thousands of additional Americans...
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Scientists Are Inching Closer to Bringing Back the Woolly Mammoth
De-extinction startup Colossal Biosciences claims it has found a way to reprogram elephant cells, a technical...
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Less Sea Ice Means More Arctic Trees—Which Means Trouble
White spruce are spreading in the high north, thanks to extra snow. That “Arctic greening” has...
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This Is What Your Brain Does When You’re Not Doing Anything
When your mind is wandering, your brain’s “default mode” network is active. Its discovery 20 years...
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The US Buried Nuclear Waste Abroad. Climate Change Could Unearth It
A new report says melting ice sheets and rising seas could disturb waste from US nuclear...
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Good Climate Solutions Need Good Policy—and AI Can Help With That
Climate Policy Radar's tools scan global environmental laws to see what works and what doesn't. What...