Insect Farming Is Booming. But Is It Cruel?
“If there are welfare concerns, you’ve got to intervene at the planning stages, when those facilities are being designed and
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How to Create Your Optimal Bedtime Routine
Routines, even when not fully followed, provide a guiding structure to the chaos of human life. I shower in the
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How a Beam of Pellets Could Blast a Probe Into Deep Space
That said, he expects that the futuristic project could take more than a half-century to realize. It poses a few
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A Gene Therapy Cure for Sickle Cell Is on the Horizon
Evie Junior’s life has been defined by pain. He was born with sickle cell disease, which causes red blood cells
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Pi Is Hiding Everywhere | WIRED
There’s your pi. In fact, you can measure the mass, period, and spring constant independently and use this to calculate
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How to Lucid Dream (Even if You Think You Can’t)
I’ve never had a lucid dream, but I’d love to start. Every night my eyes grow weary and my passive
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Europe Is Bracing for (Another) Devastating Drought
What happens during the next few months will really matter. Abundant rainfall could ease the situation and stave off the
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Solar Panels Floating in Reservoirs? We’ll Drink to That
In 2021, Campbell published another paper based on the same principle: If California spanned 4,000 miles of its canal system
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The Electron Is Having a (Magnetic) Moment. It’s a Big Deal
In classical physics, a vacuum is a total void—a true manifestation of nothingness. But quantum physics says that empty space
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How to Fix a Broken Sleep Schedule
If that’s not an option, consider tweaking things. Dow recommends an app called F.lux, which tints your computer’s display red to
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