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As a result, if abortion jurisprudence continues using fetal viability as its central criterion for whether abortion should be allowed, abortion in the ectogenesis era risks becoming less morally and socially acceptable than it is today. There is a real risk that future legislation, especially in conservative communities, states, and countries, will fully prohibit abortion …
Artificial Wombs Will Change Abortion Rights Forever Read More »
If you calculate all those individual services with the cost of the Pixel 7 Pro over the course of two years, your total comes out to $1,806. So you are effectively paying less ($486 less, to be exact). But it’s only really worth it if you watch a ton of YouTube and use YouTube Music, …
Best Google Pixel Phone (2023): Which Model to Buy, Cases and Accessories, Feature Drops Read More »
Ella Balasa was 26 when she realized the routine medical treatments that sustained her were no longer working. The slender lab assistant had lived since childhood with the side effects of cystic fibrosis, an inherited disease that turns mucus in the lungs and other organs into a thick, sticky goo that gives pathogens a place …
In the War on Bacteria, It’s Time to Call in the Phages Read More »
It’s essentially a problem of scale. Proteins like soy and pea are produced on a mass scale for very low prices, but the cultivated meat industry is still linking on supply chains that exist for the pharmaceutical industry, where margins are much higher. In Oxford in the UK, scientists at cultivated meat firm Ivy Farm …
Your First Lab-Grown Burger Won’t Contain Much Beef Read More »
The easiest way to use the digital anonymity service Tor is through the Tor Browser. You download and use it like a regular browser, and it covers your digital footprints as you go, making it very difficult for anyone to track your online activity. On top of that, the Tor Browser is designed with countersurveillance …
Mullvad VPN and Tor Project Create New Privacy-Focused Mullvad Browser Read More »
The hall’s futuristic features included carbon dioxide sensors that automatically pipe in fresh air, a rain garden, a yard for robots and drones, and experimental super-sensing devices called Mites. Mounted in more than 300 locations throughout the building, these light-switch-size devices can measure 12 types of data—including motion and sound. Mites were embedded on the …
Inside the campus privacy battle over smart building sensors Read More »
Beyond the game’s eclectic weapons, we later learn that the monsters are the ghosts of past failed startups. Each startup represents a level with its own characters and backdrops, populated with overly caffeinated and handsy bosses that “trust fall” onto you as a finishing move. From Joblin, a gig work startup similar to Fiverr or …
I’m Healing From the Tech Layoffs by Playing ‘Going Under’ Read More »
You only get one pair of ears, so it’s a good idea to look after them—and a good set of earplugs can come in handy in all kinds of situations. A proper set is a much better solution for blocking out noise during the night than a pillow over the head and is more comfortable …
9 Best Earplugs (2023): For Concerts, Sleep, and Listening Read More »
Zendure mentions support for Amazon Alexa and Google Home, enabling you to issue voice commands to your Superbase V6400. I only got the option to link Alexa in the Zendure app, and I needed some help to set up the Zendure skill, but I could not get Alexa to recognize any voice commands. I’m not …
Zendure Superbase V6400 Review: Ultimate Modular Home Power Station Read More »
The cosmos seems to have a preference for things that are round. Planets and stars tend to be spheres because gravity pulls clouds of gas and dust toward the center of mass. The same holds for black holes—or, to be more precise, the event horizons of black holes—which must, according to theory, be spherically shaped …
Mathematicians Find an Infinity of Possible Black Hole Shapes Read More »
A lot of applications start up when you boot your Windows computer—probably more than you’d like. You can turn off some of these in Windows Settings under apps > startup, and others in the settings for that specific application. Not always, though: Some applications are stubborn. This is where Autoruns comes in. This free application …
How to Stop Programs From Loading When Windows Starts Up Read More »
An asteroid called Didymos recently had a close encounter with a spacecraft. Now it has divulged a dizzying secret: the half-mile-wide rock seems to be spinning so rapidly—completing a full rotation every two hours and 16 minutes—that its surface may be ejecting rubble, some carried out into space by solar wind. Researchers made the discovery …
Asteroid Didymos May Spin So Fast It Flings Rocks into Space Read More »
Inside the gut of a caterpillar lives a worm, and inside the worm lurks a bioluminescent bacterium named Photorhabdus asymbiotica, which makes the caterpillar glow in the dark. But this nesting-doll-like setup has another, more harmful effect: the bacteria secrete a deadly molecular syringe, 100 nanometers long, that latches onto the insect’s cells. Once attached …
Bacterial ‘Nanosyringe’ Could Deliver Gene Therapy to Human Cells Read More »
During the past three years of the pandemic, testing sewage water for the virus that causes COVID has become a valuable tool: it has spotted surging infections and new variants weeks before they showed up in medical clinics, for instance. The technology has also warned of other health threats such as seasonal viruses and increased …
A Valuable Early-warning System for Disease Outbreaks Could Be Shut Down Read More »
In 1946, Marie Nyswander, a recent medical school graduate, joined the U.S. Public Health Service looking for adventure abroad. Instead, they sent her to Lexington, Kentucky’s Narcotic Farm, a prison and rehabilitation facility for people with drug addiction, where therapies included milking cows and basket-making. It was at Lexington that Marie encountered addiction for the …
Marie Nyswander Changed the Landscape of Addiction. Here’s How Her Story Begins. Read More »
“Everything everywhere all at once” became more than an Oscar-sweeping movie title recently as the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) described what it will take to halt and reverse the disastrous effects of climate change in the last piece of its sixth report. We’ve already reached the 1.1 degree Celsius of warming …
Hunters and Anglers Are Critical to Climate Change Action Read More »
1973 Catalytic Conversion “Among the most troublesome air pollutants produced by automobiles are the chemically active nitrogen oxides. Workers at Bell Laboratories have found catalysts that react nitrogen oxides with a reducing gas (hydrogen or carbon monoxide), converting them to nitrogen and such harmless by-products as water and carbon dioxide. They can be coated on …
The future of the metaverse looks shaker than anyone can imagine. Tech companies that have bought into the concept fully—like Facebook-turned-Meta and disney—are facing the realities of building out a concept that ostensibly already exists but has failed to achieve any real popularity. Even members of the video game industry, which has been exploring the …
The Internet Is Ruined. The Metaverse Can Still Be Saved Read More »
The world’s most popular mobile operating system has another new version upgrade in the works—Android 14—which promises enhancements to privacy, security, and performance. Google, the company that manages the OS, has also made it a point to improve the experience for larger screens, like tablets and folding smartphones. Android 14 is still in development and …
12 Top New Android 14 Features (2023): How to Install, Features, Release Date Read More »
But Rosemartin echoed Alonzo in cautioning against attributing the earlier bloom directly to climate change. “I wouldn’t say that climate change caused the early spring,” she said. “But climate change is loading the dice every year. We’re more likely now than we were 30 years ago to have an early spring.” This is a trend …
Washington, DC’s Cherry Blooms Draw Crowds—and Climate Questions Read More »