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COVID-19 is still a threat, but getting a vaccine is harder for many people

Traveling across state lines in search of an available shot. Scrambling to get a doctor’s prescription. Showing...

People with ADHD may have an underappreciated advantage: Hypercuriosity

Anne-Laure Le Cunff was something of a wild child. As a teenager, she repeatedly disabled the school...

A new book explores the link between film giant Kodak and the atomic bomb

Tales of Militant ChemistryAlice LovejoyUniv. of California Press, $27.95 Despite the digitalization of pictures and movies,...

The oldest known mummies have been found — in Southeast Asia

Southeast Asians created the oldest known human mummies roughly 7,000 years before Egyptian mummies debuted, researchers say....

Salt can turn frozen water into a weak power source

Salt, ice and some oomph — these three simple ingredients are all that’s needed to make waste-free...

How a Harvard maverick forever changed our concept of the stars

Astronomy is the oldest science, and the sky is among our first laboratories. Long before the written...

Whole-Genome Sequencing Will Change Pregnancy

The world of pregnancy is going to radically change, predicts Noor Siddiqui. “I think that the default...

WIRED Health Recap: Cancer Vaccines, CRISPR Breakthroughs, and More

At the WIRED Health summit in Boston on September 9, we hosted some of the leading experts...

The Next Era of Gene Editing Will Be Disease Agnostic

At the WIRED Health summit last week, Harvard biochemist and gene-editing pioneer David Liu said that later...

MAHA Wants Action on Pesticides. It’s Not Going to Get It From Trump’s Corporate-Friendly EPA

When Jean-Marie Kauth first read the Make America Healthy Again commission report, released by the White House...

The Quest to Find the Longest-Running Simple Computer Program

The original version of this story appeared in Quanta Magazine.Imagine that someone gives you a list of...

Big Businesses Are Doing Carbon Dioxide Removal All Wrong

This story originally appeared on Grist and is part of the Climate Desk collaboration.Achieving net-zero greenhouse gas...
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