Tag: Science
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Homo crustaceous
‘Everything becomes crab’ is more than an absurd meme. The crab is a deep symbol of our devil’s bargain with technology
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The Sea Slug Defying Biological Orthodoxy
Symbiosis may be more important to evolution than scientists once thought.
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Swat Team
Mosquito larvae, says Erin Mordecai, are cute. But they grow into humankind’s deadliest foes—which is why she and her colleagues are trying to figure out where on Earth the little buggers are about to strike.
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Race, Genes, and IQ
Critics of The Bell Curve have attacked every point in the book—except the most important one.
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Nobel Prize Awarded for Discoveries on How Cells Adapt to Oxygen
The 2019 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine honors work elucidating how cells adjust to low oxygen levels.
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What Keeps the Lights On
If you think the power system must run itself by now, you’re wrong. Behind every nicely toasted bagel is a vast network of generators, transformers, computers, wires — and, yes, people in backrooms sweating to make sure the juice flows exactly where, and when, it needs to go. What could possibly go wrong?