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Elon Musk Says a Human Patient Has Received Neuralink?s Brain Implant

Details are scarce, but Elon Musk says initial results are ?promising.? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-31
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Two Nations, a Horrible Accident, and the Urgent Need to Understand the Laws of Space Right Now

Welcome to the world?s foremost training ground for saving space from disasters, disputes, and?perhaps one day?colonizers named Musk. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-30
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6 Deaf Children Can Now Hear After a Single Injection

Several gene therapies aim to restore a protein necessary for transmitting sound signals from the ear to the brain. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-29
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The Extreme Sport of Ice Climbing Is at Risk of Extinction

The winter sport is becoming more treacherous as the world warms and icefalls become less and less stable. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-26
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The World?s Essential Aquifers Are in Deep Trouble

New research finds that the groundwater systems that hydrate your life are in rapid, sometimes accelerating decline around the globe. Here?s how to stop the retreat. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-25
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The World's First Malaria Vaccine Program for Children Starts Now

On Monday, Cameroon became the first nation to establish routine childhood malaria immunizations. The race is on to give protection to as many people as possible. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-24
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Scientists Will Test a Cancer-Hunting mRNA Treatment

Strand Therapeutics has figured out a way to turn the molecule on and off in certain tissues to more precisely treat tumors. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-23
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A Scandal Is Tearing the World of Record-Breaking Dogs Apart

After doubts were raised about a 31-year-old dog, Guinness World Records has paused its records for the world?s oldest dogs, leaving one super-old dog in limbo. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-22
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A Gene-Edited Pig Liver Was Attached to a Person?and Worked for 3 Days

Researchers want to use genetically engineered pig organs to help support people with liver failure. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-19
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Scabies Is Making a Comeback

Cases of scabies, a highly contagious parasitic skin disease, are on the rise across Europe. The UK in particular is struggling with a shortage of treatments. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-18
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The Surprising Things That Helped Make 2023 the Hottest Year Ever

The numbers are in: 2023?s global temperatures not only soared, but smashed the previous record set in 2016. This year could be even hotter. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-17
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The Real Problem With the Boeing 737 Max

Two tragic crashes over the past six years, then a third plane with loose bodywork?the aircraft designed to send Boeing?s reputation soaring has sent it into a tailspin. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-16
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Norway?s Deep-Sea Mining Decision Is a Warning

Politicians claim the move could provide vital minerals for the green transition. Critics say opening up exploration creates geopolitical headaches and is environmentally unsound. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-15
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Why Humans Are Putting a Bunch of ?Coal? and ?Oil? Back in the Ground

Startups are processing plant waste into concentrated carbon to be buried or injected underground. It?s like fossil fuels, but in reverse. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-12
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There?s a Huge Covid Surge Right Now and Nobody Is Talking About It

The US is in the midst of the largest Covid surge since Omicron, but with minimal testing and good population immunity, the wave is largely being ignored. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-11
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How Your Body Adapts to Extreme Cold

Scientists are finding a dynamic story in human physiology linked to frigid temperatures?a story that climate change may rewrite. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-10
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Yes, the Climate Crisis Is Now ?Gobsmacking.? But So Is Some Progress

This is the year that ?absolutely gobsmackingly bananas? summed up the climate emergency. But dramatic descriptors extend to the huge gains humanity has made too. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-09
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Critical Infrastructure Is Sinking Along the US East Coast

Up and down the Atlantic Coast, the land is steadily sinking, or subsiding. That?s destabilizing levees, roads, and airports, just as sea levels are rising. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-08
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A Gel Injected Into the Scrotum Could Be the Next Male Contraceptive

Biotech company Contraline has safely implanted a sperm-blocking hydrogel in 23 men. It?s designed to be a fully reversible vasectomy. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-05
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Former NBA Star Rick Fox Is Making a Play for Carbon-Neutral Concrete

Carbon-neutral concrete could transform construction?s footprint?if it can scale in time. At Partanna Global, Bahamian basketball star and actor Rick Fox is trying to speed things up. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-04
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Your Eco-Friendly Lifestyle Is a Big Lie

Eating organic and switching to low-energy light bulbs feels like the green thing to do, but are people missing the bigger opportunities right in front of them? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-03
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A Demographic Time Bomb Is About to Hit the Beef Industry

A tiny proportion of Americans?particularly boomers?eat the majority of the nation?s beef. Can clever framing sway a younger generation? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2024-01-01
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Why Deleting Carbon From the Atmosphere Is So Controversial

Delegates agreed on a historic climate deal at COP28. But without more ambition, humanity will have to rely ever more on a contentious strategy: carbon removal. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-25
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Snow Sports Are Getting More Dangerous

Extreme conditions caused by climate change are making winter sports more risky. From Colorado to Washington, that?s also making mountain rescue missions even more perilous. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-22
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Energy Drinks Are Out of Control

Highly caffeinated drinks have become a cultural staple. But following a death allegedly related to Panera Bread?s Charged Lemonade, has our collective obsession with energy drinks become unsafe? Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-21
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You Know It?s a Placebo. So Why Does It Still Work?

As researchers try to make sense of ?open-label? placebos?fake drugs that proudly announce their fakeness?the mysterious effect is starting to show up beyond the world of medicine. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-20
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Oh Good, Hurricanes Are Now Made of Microplastics

When Hurricane Larry made landfall two years ago, it dropped over 100,000 microplastics per square meter of land per day. It?s another ominous sign of how plasticized the environment has become. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-19
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Elon Musk?s New Monkey Death Claims Spur Fresh Demands for an SEC Investigation

An animal welfare advocacy group claims in a letter to the SEC that Elon Musk again made statements about the health of Neuralink test subjects that may have misled investors. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-18
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How Dr. Clara Nellist Collides Art and Science

This particle physicist, science communicator, and member of the team who uncovered the Higgs Boson wants everyone to know that art and science aren?t mutually exclusive. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-15
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A Brilliant COP Agreement? It Depends Who You Ask

The agreement at COP28 satisfies no-one. But it?s probably the best that countries could have hoped for. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-14
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Here?s Scientific Proof Your Cat Will Eat Almost Anything

Free-ranging domestic cats eat over 2,000 animal species across the globe, including hundreds at risk of extinction. It?s a problem with no easy solution. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-13
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This Pill Tracks Your Vitals From the Inside

An ingestible ?digital pill? that measures heart rate and breathing from inside the stomach could detect the warning signs of sleep apnea, cardiac distress, and even opioid overdoses. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-12
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The First Crispr Medicine Is Now Approved in the US

The one-time gene editing fix is meant to halt debilitating pain crises for sickle cell patients, who formerly could only be cured with a risky stem cell transplant. Read the full story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-11
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Don?t Worry, It?s Just ?Fire Ice?

Methane hydrate is an ice-like substance you can set on fire. Now scientists have found that more of it may be in danger of melting?and releasing powerful greenhouse gas?than previously realized. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-08
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Dr. Ishwaria Subbiah Is Reimagining Cancer Care

All but raised in oncology wards, Dr. Subbiah is on a mission to make cancer care work for everyone, including those usually overlooked. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-07
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Ozempic Could Also Help You Drink Less Alcohol

Mounting evidence bolsters the idea that drugs like semaglutide?better known as Ozempic or Wegovy?can hamper a thirst for booze. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-06
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Want to Store a Message in DNA? That?ll Be $1,000

French startup Biomemory is rolling out a credit-card-sized storage device that uses DNA to encode a kilobyte of text data. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-05
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Dr. Nergis Mavalvala Helped Detect the First Gravitational Wave. Her Work Doesn?t Stop There

The dean of MIT?s School of Science embraces skepticism and failure, and she wants the next generation of scientists to jump right in. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-04
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Cicadas Are So Loud, Fiber Optic Cables Can ?Hear? Them

In 2021, scientists experimenting with fiber optics picked up a strange signal: the cacophony of cicadas. It could lead to a new way of monitoring insects. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-12-01
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A Cutting-Edge Cancer Treatment Is Under FDA Investigation?for Cancer Risk

CAR-T cell therapy harnesses the immune system to attack blood cancers. Six years after approving the first treatment, the FDA is investigating whether it can give rise to secondary cancers. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-30
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Dr. Sabrina Gonzalez Pasterski Will Change How You Think About Space

Pioneering a new field in cosmology, Dr. Pasterski explores diverse perspectives in physics and astronomy?and whether the universe might actually be a hologram. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-29
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Dr. Paula Johnson Is Breaking Down the Barriers to Better Health

An accomplished cardiologist and the first Black woman president of Wellesley College, Dr. Johnson's life's work is improving quality of care for women and women of color around the world. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-28
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It?s Time to Log Off

There?s a devastating amount of heavy news these days. Psychology experts say you need to know your limits?and when to put down the phone. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-27
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Dr. Jessie Christiansen Wants to Help You Discover the Next Exoplanet

As project scientist on NASA?s Exoplanet Archive, Dr. Christiansen is a huge advocate for citizen science?and making sure anyone can be a planet hunter. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-22
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Emissions Should Be Plummeting. Instead, They?re Breaking Dangerous New Records

Ahead of COP28, a scathing new UN report warns that the world is barreling toward an avoidable catastrophe. It?s a plea for world leaders to step up their ambition. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-21
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The First Crispr Medicine Just Got Approved

The gene-editing therapy, called Casgevy, uses Crispr to prevent debilitating pain in patients with sickle cell disease. It also eliminates the need for regular blood transfusions in people with beta thalassemia. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-20
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Dr. Alison Todd?s Inventions May Save Your Life

An inventor, molecular biologist, and diagnostic scientist, Dr. Todd cofounded SpeedDx, which serves communities worldwide. And that?s just the beginning. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-17
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Dr. Michelle Wong Brings the Science of Skincare to New Audiences

Misinformation about skincare runs rampant on social media. The chemist behind the Lab Muffin Beauty Science blog is here to clear things up. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-16
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A Single Infusion of a Gene-Editing Treatment Lowered High Cholesterol

It?s still early days for a novel form of gene therapy called base editing, but this small study in people with extremely high cholesterol shows striking results. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-15
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Wegovy Slashes the Risk of Heart Attack and Stroke in a Landmark Trial

The drug semaglutide is already widely used for weight loss. Now its maker is presenting new evidence that it can reduce cardiovascular illnesses and deaths. Read this story here. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2023-11-14
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