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We’re in a Loneliness Crisis: Another Reason to Get Off Our Phones
It rained one morning this week. I moved back to Texas last year, in part for the rainstorms. Here, it…
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Four Americans Were Infected With a Virus Variant Seen in Mink
In the first year of the pandemic, at least four people in Michigan were infected with a version of the…
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How the ‘Whole Life’ Movement Challenges the Politics of Left vs. Right
I was in college, just old enough to vote, when I first bumped into the left-right binary of American politics.…
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What Is Our Moral Obligation in Ukraine?
In 1994, I was a young journalist in the information graphics department at The Detroit News, just two years out…
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Kidneys From a Genetically Altered Pig Are Implanted in a Brain-Dead Patient
Surgeons at the University of Alabama at Birmingham reported on Thursday that they had for the first time successfully transplanted…
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Syrian Doctor Accused of Atrocities Goes on Trial in Germany
The Syrian doctor tortured detainees — opponents of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad — by beating them with sticks and kicking…
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In a First, Man Receives a Heart From a Genetically Altered Pig
A 57-year-old man with life-threatening heart disease has received a heart from a genetically modified pig, a groundbreaking procedure that…
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Richard Leakey, Kenyan Fossil Hunter and Conservationist, Dies at 77
Richard Leakey, the Kenyan paleoanthropologist and fossil hunter whose discoveries of ancient human skulls and skeletons helped cement Africa’s ...
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Killer Robots Aren’t Science Fiction. A Push to Ban Them is Growing.
It may have seemed like an obscure United Nations conclave, but a meeting this week in Geneva was followed intently…
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Earth Is Getting a ‘Black Box’ to Hold Humans Accountable for Climate Change
In a remote part of Australia, a steel vault about the size of a school bus will record the Earth’s…
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