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Aging Might Not Be Inevitable

In 1997, a French woman named Jeanne Calment died at the age of 122. She was the...

With AI Tools, Scientists Can Crack the Code of Life

In 2021, AI research lab DeepMind announced the development of its first digital biology neural network, AlphaFold....

Air So Polluted It Can Kill Isn’t Being Taken Seriously Enough

In 2010, three months before her seventh birthday, Ella Roberta suddenly developed a chest infection and a...

Pooping on the Moon Is a Messy Business

Everybody poops, including astronauts. In fact, the first picture Neil Armstrong ever snapped from the surface of...

Boring Architecture Is Starving Your Brain

Designer Thomas Heatherwick thinks the construction industry is in a crisis. “We’ve just got so used to...

Revolutionary Alzheimer’s Treatments Can’t Help Patients Who Go Undiagnosed

“The statistics are frightening: Dementia is the biggest killer in the UK. It has been the leading...

Post-Pandemic Recovery Isn’t Guaranteed

Lucy Easthope, one of the UK’s top experts in disaster planning, has advised the UK government on...

Starliner Faces an Indefinite Wait in Space While NASA Investigates Its Faults

In an update released late Friday evening, NASA said it was “adjusting” the date of the Starliner...

What Came Before the Big Bang?

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.About 13.8 billion years ago, the entire cosmos...

Recluse Spider Season Is a Myth

This story originally appeared on WIRED en Español and has been translated from Spanish.Summer arrives, and with...

How to Exercise Safely During a Heat Wave

THIS ARTICLE IS republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.When summer starts with a stifling...

Everything’s About to Get a Hell of a Lot More Expensive Due to Climate Change

This story originally appeared on Slate and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.If you’re one of...
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