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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. GONORRHoEA IS an old affliction. The book of Leviticus mentions a contagious condition involving the continuous emission of semen and a painful erection. Only 2,500 years later, in the mid-20th century, did the discovery of
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THE FIRST mouthful of “cultivated” meat is both remarkable and dull. In a homely kitchen at the California headquarters of Eat Just, a startup, a playing-card-sized slice of meat has been glazed and grilled. It is served with a sweet-potato puree, maitake mushrooms and some pickled peppers. The meal is remarkable because the meat was
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. In a small laboratory at Guy’s and St Thomas’ hospital in London, Désirée Prossomariti is processing donations. Each is weighed, tested for pathogens, filtered, centrifuged and then freeze-dried, before being turned into a powder to
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. The “Gaza metro” is nothing if not formidable. The network of tunnels built by Hamas beneath the enclave is hundreds of kilometres long. It houses command centres, weapons dumps and stores of food and fuel.
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Launched in 1869, the Cutty Sark was the fastest sailing ship of its time. These days the clipper is a London tourist attraction. In its prime, when it dashed across the world carrying tea from
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. New species are generally found rather than awakened. And they are typically discovered in remote places like rainforests or Antarctic plateaus. But not so a species of bacterium described in a paper just published in
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. How might science be done on an alien planet? Since the laws of nature are the same everywhere, the aliens would make the same discoveries as humans have—that matter is made of atoms, say, or
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. ONE OF THE first signs of Alzheimer’s disease is confusion. Most people can park their car in a different space every morning and find it again in the evening. Those with Alzheimer’s find this type
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. IN THE 21 years since it was founded, SpaceX, a rocketry firm set up by Elon Musk, has become the world’s space superpower. Its cheap, reusable Falcon 9 rocket dominates the launch industry. Thanks mostly
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Listen to this story.Enjoy more audio and podcasts on iOS or Android. Your browser does not support the <audio> element. Artificial-intelligence (AI) models are modern oracles. The neural networks that power them are flexible mathematical tools, capable of finding any pattern, fitting any shape and drawing any line. They are used to forecast the weather,
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