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Public museums and private collections are stuffed with scientific artefacts gathered by individuals — often with highly questionable obsessions and motivations.
With crucial infrastructure increasingly dependent on accurate, resilient clocks, outages in the dominant system for global positioning highlight the need for other ways of distributing time information.
Amid growing debates about the benefits and risks of studying looking-glass versions of life’s building blocks, there is an urgent need to bridge divergent views.
Developers of griefbots say that they help people by allowing them to commune with recreations of the dead, but others say that the technology is fraught with danger.
Of high-income countries, when it comes to non-communicable diseases, Denmark is doing it right. Plus, a unique clinical study aims to understand HIV, and heatwaves have been linked to specific fossil-fuel producers.
