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A Better Birth Is Possible

September 2000, Atlanta. I had just celebrated my 23rd birthday. After a summer spent cashiering at Whole...

It’s Time for Cities to Ditch Delivery Trucks—for Cargo Bikes

And when you factor in a van’s price, the cost of fuel, insurance, and depreciation, plus parking...

The Fungus That Killed Frogs—and Led to a Surge in Malaria

Though Bd swept through Central America from the 1980s to the 2000s, the analysis that demonstrated its...

The US Is Measuring Extreme Heat Wrong

In the late 1970s, a physicist and textiles engineer in Texas named Robert Steadman published a paper...

To Understand Brain Disorders, Consider the Astrocyte

This was slow going. “We spent a lot of time, probably the first couple of years, really...

Electric Vehicles Could Rescue the US Power Grid

But utilities will likely play the biggest role in ushering in a new era of electricity grids,...

This environmentally friendly quantum sensor runs on sunlight

Quantum tech is going green. A new take on highly sensitive magnetic field sensors ditches the power-hungry...

Epigenetic ‘Clocks’ Predict Animals’ True Biological Age

A new tool from Belsky and his colleagues, introduced in 2020 and updated earlier this year, acts...

The Colorado River Is Dying. Can Its Aquatic Dinosaurs Be Saved?

To keep those Glen Canyon turbines spinning, Lake Powell needs more water. But without big cuts in...

How to Design the Perfect Queue, According to Crowd Science

“There’s a significant amount of math and formulas that has been written about this over the years,”...

The World Has Reached Peak Attenborough

If there is anyone who attracts near-ubiquitous admiration in the United Kingdom, it’s David Attenborough. The naturalist...

How a ‘Living Drug’ Could Treat Autoimmune Disease

In lupus, a type of autoimmune disease, the body's natural defense system can't tell the difference between...
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