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How the White House just made the world a little safer from biorisks

By Kelsey Piper

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Why Florida and Alabama banned a kind of meat that doesn’t really exist

By Kenny Torrella

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By Dylan Matthews

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John Fetterman has beef with no-kill meat

By Kenny Torrella

Social media platforms aren’t equipped to handle the negative effects of their algorithms abroad. Neither is the law.

By Tiffany Ng

“Climate-friendly” beef could land in a meat aisle near you. Don’t fall for it.

By Kenny Torrella

The real science behind the billionaire pursuit of immortality

By Jacob Sweet

Even as bird flu looms, the world is unlearning Covid’s lessons

By Dylan Scott

Some say AI will make war more humane. Israel’s war in Gaza shows the opposite.

By Sigal Samuel
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Your phone can tell when you’re depressed

By Celia Ford

The one huge obstacle standing in the way of progress on gene-editing medicine

By Charlotte Hu

How the world wastes hundreds of billions of meals in a year, in three charts

By Sam Delgado
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Should humans get their own geologic era?

By Laura Bult

No one wants to think about pandemics. But bird flu doesn’t care.

By Kelsey Piper

What if canceling people’s medical debt doesn’t help them?

By Dylan Scott

How rioting farmers unraveled Europe’s ambitious climate plan

By Jan Dutkiewicz
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The Future of Meat

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Philosophers are studying Reddit’s “Am I the Asshole?”

By Sigal Samuel

The reckless policies that helped fill our streets with ridiculously large cars

By David Zipper

So you’ve found research fraud. Now what?

By Kelsey Piper

Is Fallout a warning for our future? A global catastrophic risk expert weighs in.

By Sam Delgado

Bird flu in milk is alarming — but not for the reason you think

By Kenny Torrella

The breathtaking lifesaving impact of vaccines, in one chart

By Dylan Matthews

Bird flu in cows — and now in milk. How worried should we be?

By Benji Jones and Kenny Torrella

The meat industry’s war on wildlife

By Kenny Torrella

Compassion is making a comeback in America

By Jamil Zaki

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I gave up meat and gained so much more

By Marina Bolotnikova and Christine Mi

Will AI mean the end of liberal democracy?

By Sean Illing

Are there really more things going wrong on airplanes?

By Kelsey Piper

Your brain’s privacy is at risk. The US just took its first big step toward protecting it.

By Sigal Samuel

Would you donate a kidney for $50,000?

By Dylan Matthews

The dairy industry really, really doesn’t want you to say “bird flu in cows”

By Marina Bolotnikova

The charitable deduction is a complex, broken mess. There’s a better way.

By Dylan Matthews

Every year, tuberculosis kills over a million people. Can a new vaccine turn the tide?

By Jess Craig

A hack nearly gained access to millions of computers. Here’s what we should learn from this.

By Kelsey Piper

Why is there so much lead in American food?

By Dylan Scott

Language doesn’t perfectly describe consciousness. Can math?

By Oshan Jarow

Mega drive-throughs explain everything wrong with American cities

By Marina Bolotnikova

Why are so many young people getting cancer?

By Dylan Scott

Why the death of the honeybee was greatly exaggerated

By Bryan Walsh

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