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Senators Push to Secure U.S. Drug Supply Chain After Disruptions During Covid-19 Pandemic
The U.S. faced shortages for drugs used to treat Covid-19 patients during the pandemic as demand surged but supply.
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Elon Musk's Neuralink Explains How a Monkey Used Its Brain-Computer Tech to Play Pong
Neuralink, the brain machine interface company founded by Tesla CEO Elon Musk, has published a video of a monkey playing the video game Pong with its mind.
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Here's How Biden's $2 Trillion Infrastructure Plan Addresses Climate Change
If signed into law, Biden’s infrastructure plan would rank as one of the largest federal efforts ever to curb U.S. greenhouse gas emissions.
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EPA Dismisses Key Science Advisors Appointed by Trump Administration
The move is part of President Biden’s broader effort to restore morale and scientific integrity at the EPA after Trump’s consistent dismissal of human-caused climate change.
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Nearly Half the U.S. Is in Drought and Conditions Are Expected to Grow Worse, NOAA Says
Nearly half of the continental U.S. is in a drought that’s forecast to grow more severe and persistent, NOAA researchers announced on Thursday.
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Elizabeth Holmes Trial Likely Delayed Because She's Pregnant
The Theranos founder’s fraud trail has already been delayed three times because of the Covid-19 pandemic.
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Web Inventor Tim Berners-Lee Says ‘Far Too Many Young People' Remain Excluded From the Internet
Tim Berners-Lee, the British computer scientist credited with inventing the web in 1989, is concerned that a global “digital divide” is taking place.
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From ‘Stronger Together' to a Divided Nation
“We’re in this together”: a quote that ignited action just eight months ago. Today, those words seem quite distant. NBCLX storyteller Cody Broadway looks beyond the political climate at the science behind motivation.
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How Motivational Quotes Can Bring Us Together — And Tear Us Apart
I’ve always been fascinated by motivational quotes. Especially the ones that create action. For example, “We’re in this together.” Five simple words on a screen that ignited a movement across the world eight months ago. Today, the effectiveness of that quote seems so distant. How did we go from praying in hospital parking lots to fighting inside grocery...
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DeepMind Is Building a Team of A.I. Researchers in New York
The co-founder of Facebook AI Research is now helping rival DeepMind to build a team in New York.
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Apple Picks German City of Munich for Major Chip Lab
Apple has announced that it plans to create a major new chip lab in Munich as part of a 1 billion euro ($1.19 billion) investment into Germany.
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Dangers Await Humans on Mars as Elon Musk Sets His Sights on Colonization
Science journalist Shannon Stirone explains why SpaceX founder Elon Musk “is absolutely out into space” when it comes to the “unrealistic” colonization of Mars.
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Facebook Trains A.I. to ‘See' Using 1 Billion Public Instagram Photos
Facebook has built an AI program called “SEER” that can tell what it is looking at. It did this by feeding it over 1 billion public images from Instagram.
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Aston Martin Launches First F1 Car in Over 60 Years
British luxury carmaker Aston Martin on Wednesday launched a new Formula One car ahead of its return to the most famous motor racing event in the world.
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Science Explained: Why Do We Use Salt to Melt Snow?
Storm Team4 Meteorologist Amelia Draper explains why we use salt on roads to help with snow and ice.
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China's Spending on Research and Development Hits a Record $378 Billion
China’s National Bureau of Statistics said that R&D spend accounted for 2.4% of China’s gross domestic product in 2020.
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Facebook CTO Says Tech Pessimism Is ‘Founded on Real Concerns of the Negative Impacts of Technology'
Mike Schroepfer said that in some cases “we haven’t really always done the homework upfront” and thought about what a “bad actor” might do with a product.
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Carmakers Have Been Hit Hard by a Global Chip Shortage — Here's Why
Silicon chips are the lifeblood of the tech-obsessed world we live in, but today they’re in short supply.
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U.S. Must Go ‘Well Beyond Paris Commitments' to Avert Catastrophic Global Warming, Warns Scientist
Scientist Michael Mann explained why the U.S. must go “well beyond those Paris commitments” as President Joe Biden rejoined the Paris Climate Agreement Friday.
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UK Plans to Launch $1.1 Billion ‘High-Risk, High-Reward' Science Research Agency
The Advanced Research and Invention Agency (ARIA) will fund “high-risk, high-reward” scientific research in the hope of achieving “groundbreaking” discoveries.