A company is selling what it calls the world’s first “code deployable biological computer.”
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Microplastics hinder plant photosynthesis, study finds, threatening millions with starvation
Researchers say problem could increase number of people at risk of starvation by 400m in next two decades The pollution of the planet by microplastics
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CDC to Re-Investigate Vaccines and Autism, Despite Decades of Evidence Showing No Link
Under the new leadership of Robert F. Kennedy Jr., the CDC is expected to look into a long-debunked connection between vaccination and autism.
Read moreStudy: Megalodon’s body shape was closer to a lemon shark
The giant extinct shark species known as the megalodon has captured the interest of scientists and the general public alike, even inspiring the 2018 blockbuster
Read moreHuh? The valuable role of interjections
Listen carefully to a spoken conversation and you’ll notice that the speakers use a lot of little quasi-words—mm-hmm, um, huh? and the like—that don’t convey
Read moreNew research shows bigger animals get more cancer, defying decades-old belief
A longstanding scientific belief about a link between cancer prevalence and animal body size has tested for the first time in our new study ranging
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