Many dog populations seem to have two doses of wolf genes…
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Author Archive: John Timmer
Tesla bundles battery users to make it look like lower power demand
Program meant to lower demand pays home owners to use battery instead of the grid…
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NASA’s Psyche mission launch on hold indefinitely pending reevaluation
The mission’s control software hasn’t been validated, and launch window is closing…
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Pig heart transplant failure: Doctors detail everything that went wrong
We’re currently unsure why the cells of the heart ended up dead…
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How hiring the wrong medical “expert” derailed US pandemic response
An advocate for herd immunity inside the White House pushed to increase infections…
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Who gets credit for science? Often, it’s not women
Part of the problem is that there are no objective rules for who gets credit…
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SpaceX’s Starship launch plan gets an environmental OK from the feds
Changes to SpaceX’s original plan plus new conditions add up to an acceptance…
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NASA to figure out how to get data on unexplained objects in the sky
Agency is commissioning a report on how to get data on “unidentified aerial phenomena…
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Mutations thought to be harmless turn out to cause problems
Mutations in genes that don’t alter proteins can still alter survival in yeast…
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Biden administration tries to boost domestic solar manufacturing
Tariff fight over some foreign panels put on hold to keep growth going…
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