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Sep 04, 2024•36 sec
Human cases keep ticking up, are very likely to be underreported, and offer the virus the opportunity to learn how to spread from person to person. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 31, 2024•8 min
Measles, bedbugs, and dengue have all been cited as concerns for tourists and athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, with the tropical virus in particular forcing authorities into action. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 30, 2024•9 min
Guilt-free air travel is a beautiful dream, but there’s simply no way to get enough solar energy to keep a cabin full of people in the air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 29, 2024•7 min
Researchers believe they have discovered oxygen being produced 4,000 meters below the sea surface, and think polymetallic nodules—the sought-after bounty of deep-sea miners—could be the source. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 26, 2024•5 min
The next wave of obesity drugs could help people lose even more weight—and make some pharma companies a fortune. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 25, 2024•9 min
Activists believe that the vice president, who is already the leading voice for reproductive rights in the Biden administration, will champion their cause. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 24, 2024•6 min
Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 23, 2024•9 min
Analysis of lunar imagery has ended a longstanding debate over whether there are accessible underground areas on the Moon; an emptied lava tube in the Sea of Tranquility is of particular interest. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 22, 2024•3 min
Missions to explore other worlds, like Mars or Saturn’s moon Titan, could disrupt or destroy extraterrestrial life in the process of seeking it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 19, 2024•10 min
Legislation in coming years will set up a publicly owned clean power company and leverage the Crown Estate for investment in green infrastructure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 18, 2024•6 min
Improperly discarded batteries leak toxic chemicals and are prone to exploding. A new program funded by the Department of Energy will prop up battery drop-off sites across the US. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 17, 2024•5 min
Robotics researchers are exploring how large language models can give physical machines more smarts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 16, 2024•4 min
In a livestreamed update on X, Elon Musk and Neuralink executives gave an update on the company's next study participant—and its next-generation brain implant. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 15, 2024•5 min
Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 12, 2024•9 min
Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 11, 2024•8 min
Cheap, low-energy evaporative cooling devices are keeping water, food, people, and even whole buildings cool across India. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 10, 2024•11 min
Much of health care is designed with the “comfortable middle” of society in mind, says designer Yves Behar, when it should be tailored to children, the elderly, and those with disabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 09, 2024•2 min
When butterflies not native to South America appeared on a beach in French Guiana, entomologists started sleuthing to prove where they came from—and how they might have got there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 08, 2024•4 min
More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls “an analog system in a digital age.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 04, 2024•5 min
To improve outcomes for female patients, all evidence needs to be considered—while outdated myths about the significance of sex differences need to be retired. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 03, 2024•5 min
For many patients, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy lead to substantial weight loss. But some see much less benefit, and researchers are trying to figure out why. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 02, 2024•9 min
Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and a difficult supply chain environment have affected Axiom. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jul 01, 2024•5 min
There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 28, 2024•5 min
Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 27, 2024•4 min
Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 26, 2024•5 min
It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t solve the problem of one-third of dementia patients still going undiagnosed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 25, 2024•5 min
A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 24, 2024•9 min
With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneurs and politicians say local champions are needed to prevent a cultural flattening. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices
Jun 21, 2024•10 min
