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Standing Desks Are Better for Your Health—but Still Not Enough

Without question, inactivity is bad for us. Prolonged sitting is consistently linked to higher risks of cardiovascular...

What Lee Zeldin’s Nomination Means for the EPA

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.After president-elect Donald Trump...

How to Design a Real-Life Hot Wheels Loop

Hot Wheels was one of those all-time classic toys. The original cars were tiny versions of real...

The First Crispr Treatment Is Making Its Way to Patients

Nearly a year after its approval, the first medical treatment that uses the Nobel Prize–winning technology Crispr...

Scientists Have Pushed the Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox to New Limits

In the world of quantum physics, another record appears to have just been broken. In a paper...

Researchers Give Animal Cells the Ability to Photosynthesize for the First Time

Chloroplasts, the parts of cells that allow plants and algae to photosynthesize, are thought to have originated...

Bone Marrow Donors Can Be Hard to Find. One Company Is Turning to Cadavers

For months, doctors in Michigan had been searching for a bone marrow donor for a 68-year-old African...

The Real Problem With Banning Masks at Protests

On December 16, 1773, a group of protesters in Boston donned handkerchiefs and smeared their faces with...

COP29 Begins With Climate Finance, Absent Leaders, and Trump Looming Large

This story originally appeared on WIRED Italia and has been translated from Italian.$1 trillion a year in...

The US Has a Cloned Sheep Contraband Problem

In September, a man from Montana was sentenced to six months in prison after he trafficked a...

Microplastics Could Be Making the Weather Worse

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.Clouds form when water vapor—an invisible...

The Incredible Power of Quantum Memory

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.It’s not easy to study quantum systems—collections of...
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