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Evo 2 - AI Creates 16 Viruses That Never Existed Before
EVO2 is a Large Language Model trained using 9 trillion DNA base pairs from all domains of life. It can, their Nature paper says, predict everything from noncoding pathogenic mutations to clinically s...
Earth Sciences
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How Do Scientists Know Climate Change Made A Heat Wave Worse?
When a devastating heat wave, hurricane, flood or wildfire strikes, people often want to know: How much did human-caused climate change influence this event, if at all?For many years, scientists could...
Life Sciences
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FrankenKetchup: Condiments Get A Science Boost
Protein-maxxing is the latest rage in people who learn just enough science to be wrong about nutrition health, but if you adopted a gluten-free diet despite not being celiac, that vaccines cause autis...
Medicine
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Hospitals Should Stop Doing 3 Things To New Moms About Breastfeeding
In modern times, breastfeeding has become more culture war than health epidemiology. Activists have created nearly as much disinformation around infant formula as they have weedkillers and food colori...
Physical Sciences
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The Corny Idea To Replace Food Coloring
Companies know to go with the political flow. It is better to help manage the process than protest just because a populist belief defies science and end up with mandates handed down by Congress that c...
Social Sciences
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The Tennessee Girls Who Won World War II
On this day in 1945, an atomic bomb on Hiroshima began the countdown to the end of World War II. Of the Axis Powers, Italy had surrendered in 1943 and Germany in April of 1945. Only Japan remained, bu...
