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The Download: AI-designed viruses, and bad news for the hydrogen industry
Artificial intelligence can draw cat pictures and write emails. Now the same technology can compose a working genome. A research team in…
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AI-designed viruses are here and already killing bacteria
“That was pretty striking, just actually seeing, like, this AI-generated sphere,” says Brian Hie, who leads the lab at the Arc Institute…
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Welcome to the Preschool Plague Years
Last September, my newly three-year-old daughter strode into preschool for the first time, sporting a ladybug shirt, red pants, and the…
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COVID update: CDC map reveals states with "high" wastewater viral activity
New data from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that over half of U.S. states have either "high" or "very…
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COVID map update reveals new states with "very high" wastewater activity
There are an increasing number of states across the U.S. where "very high" levels of the virus that causes COVID-19 are present in…