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A category of synthetic organisms dubbed “mirror life,” whose component molecules are mirror images of their natural counterpart, could pose unprecedented risks to human life and ecosystems, according to a perspective article by leading experts, including Nobel Prize winners. The article, published in Science on December 12, is accompanied by a lengthy report detailing their
Ultraprocessed Foods High in Seed Oils Could Be Fueling Colon Cancer Risk
Climbing rates of colon and rectal cancer among people under 50 years old is a striking recent trend that has alarmed and puzzled clinicians racing to figure out why. Now a new study published in Gut offers what might be a crucial insight: specific lipids, or fatty acids, that are abundantly found in ultra-processed foods
Atmospheric River Forecasts Are Improving Thanks to Storm-Hunting Planes
December 13, 2024 4 min read Storm-Hunting Planes Are Taking on Atmospheric Rivers to Improve Forecasts Better forecasting would help communities prepare for the extreme weather from atmospheric rivers that causes an average of $1 billion in damages a year on the West Coast By Chelsea Harvey & E&E News A resident looks over a
From Polarization to Brain Rot to Brat, 2024’s Words of the Year Reflect Online Power and Peril
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. Ever since the American Dialect Society selected a Word of the Year at its conference in 1990, over half a dozen English dictionaries have anointed an annual word or phrase that’s meant to encapsulate the zeitgeist of the
NASA’s Voyager Probes Find Puzzles beyond the Solar System
For all of humanity’s millennia of staring at the stars and decades of launching probes to explore our universe, only two spacecraft carrying working instruments have ever managed to escape the bubble of space governed by our sun. The twin Voyager spacecraft launched in 1977 on an epic tour of the outer planets; both swung
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