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“Unprecedented” Coral Disease Relief

Devices to Help You Sleep, Robotic Boots, Other New Health Tech

Scientists Turned Monkey Stem Cells into ‘Synthetic Embryos’

How AI Startups Are Fully Automating Drug Discovery

Beheading Live Geese Barehanded Used to Pass for Easter Merriment

Teen Births, Abortions Keep Declining in New Zealand

WHO Announces Drop In Malaria Infections, Deaths after Vaccine Rollout

Malaysian Parliament Votes to End Mandatory Death Sentence

First Cheetah Cubs Born in India since Extinction 70 Years Ago

Our Ancestors Thought Domestic Violence Was Hilarious… and Necessary

New Nanoparticles Can Perform Gene Editing in the Lungs

Loneliness in U.S. Subsides From Pandemic High

3D Printing Promises to Transform Architecture Forever

ChatGPT’s “iPhone Moment” Poses a New Threat to Google

Have Our Screens Been the Only Major Tech Achievement since the 1970s?

Robotaxis Are Going to Sound Weird

Harvard Geneticists Create an Organism That Is Immune to All Viruses

Sugar-Powered Implant Produces Insulin as Needed

NASA Names Crew for First Human Moon Mission since Apollo

The Poverty of Slavery | Podcast Highlights

A Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle Cell Is on the Horizon

The ‘King Kong’ of Weight-Loss Drugs Is Coming

Lab-Grown Meat: Italy’s Disapproval Hard to Swallow

Around the World, Internet Use Linked to Greater Well-Being

The Poverty of Slavery | Robert Wright | Ep. 38

Facing Floods: What the World Can Learn from Bangladesh’s Climate Solutions

Meatball from Long-Extinct Mammoth Created by Food Firm

Beavers to Return to London as Part of Urban Rewilding

York Student Uses AI Chatbot to Get Parking Fine Revoked

The Slave Who Changed the Course of American Medicine

This Blood Test Targets 50 Types of Cancer

Mother, Child Mortality Rates Decline in Laos

Bacterial ‘Nanosyringe’ Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells

Inside the Cozy but Creepy World of VR Sleep Rooms

AriZona Iced Tea Has Been 99 Cents in the U.S. for 30 Years

A Self-Driving Revolution Is Happening Off-Road, Too

Humanoid Robots Are Coming to a Warehouse near You

Robots Are Making Waves under the Ocean

World’s First mRNA Vaccine against Deadly Plague Bacteria Is 100% Effective

Will We Learn from the Deindustrialization of Germany?

February 28, 2023

Climate Change: Trees Grow for Extra Month as Planet Warms

These Advances Hold Promise That We Can Delay Death with Tech

More Water Found on Moon, Locked in Tiny Glass Beads

OneWeb Launch Completes Space Internet Project

The Economic Madness of Malthusianism | Podcast Highlights

February 23, 2023

Stunting in Children Down Drastically since 2014

Ukraine War: The Shrimp Shell Fabric Saving Lives

Commercial Development of Gene-Edited Food Now Legal in England

Air Taxis Are Coming to Chicago

The Economic Madness of Malthusianism | Stephen Barrows | Ep. 37

February 16, 2023

FDA Says Lab-Grown Chicken Is Safe to Eat

Meta AI Unlocks Hundreds of Millions of Proteins to Aid Drug Discovery

Mozambique Drastically Increases Its Natural Disaster Resilience

CDC Inflated Data about Teen Girls and Sexual Assault

Why Is Paul Ehrlich So Hard to Ignore?

February 13, 2023

Biologists Say Deep Learning Is Revolutionizing Pace of Innovation

Generative AI Makes Headway in Healthcare

New Voice Cloning AI Lets “You” Speak Multiple Languages

Run This Text-Generating AI on Your Own Devices, No Giant Servers Needed

Sorry Jane, Chimps Don’t Innovate

February 08, 2023

Pfizer’s Nasal Spray for Migraines Is Heading to Pharmacies

How Stripe Is Using GPT-4 to Fight Fraud