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The first private mission to Venus will have just five minutes to hunt for life 

Although later studies questioned the detection of phosphine, the initial study reignited interest in Venus. In its wake, NASA and the European Space Agency (ESA) selected three new missions to travel to... Read more »

I Was There When: AI helped create a vaccine

And that whole process from end to end can be immensely expensive, cost billions of dollars and take, you know, up to a decade to do that. And in many cases, it... Read more »

China’s heat wave is creating havoc for electric vehicle drivers

The record-breaking heat wave in China, which started back in June, has evaporated over half the hydroelectricity generation capacity in Sichuan, a southwestern province that usually gets 81% of its electricity from... Read more »

The Download: growing organs, and Facebook’s garbage content

In the coming weeks, a volunteer in Boston, Massachusetts, will be the first to trial a new treatment that could end up creating a second liver in their body. And that’s just... Read more »

The most popular content on Facebook belongs in the garbage

But in trying to do so, it has demonstrated something else: the most popular content on Facebook is often awful, recycled generic memes.  It’s not necessarily surprising that reposting already popular memes... Read more »

This company is about to grow new organs in a person for the first time

And the lymph nodes near the liver are close enough to receive chemical distress signals sent out by the dying tissue of a diseased liver, says Lagasse. These signals are meant to... Read more »

Scientists have created synthetic mouse embryos with developed brains

The findings, described in a paper in Nature today, could help scientists learn more about how human embryos develop and provide insights into diseases, as well as providing an alternative to animals... Read more »

The Download: carbon capture subsidies, and Japan’s nuclear U-turn

The Inflation Reduction Act, which US President Joe Biden signed into law last week, will plow tens of billions of dollars into projects designed to capture carbon dioxide that would otherwise be... Read more »

Why the carbon capture subsidies in the climate bill are good news for emissions

But in the fierce debate over carbon capture, it’s often lost that the technology can also play crucial roles in accelerating emissions reductions across a variety of industries. That includes cleaning up... Read more »

A pioneer of reproductive rights

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