Science, Spoken

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Human cases keep ticking up, are very likely to be underreported, and offer the virus the opportunity to learn how to spread from person to person. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Measles, bedbugs, and dengue have all been cited as concerns for tourists and athletes at the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, with the tropical virus in particular forcing authorities into action. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Guilt-free air travel is a beautiful dream, but there’s simply no way to get enough solar energy to keep a cabin full of people in the air. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Researchers believe they have discovered oxygen being produced 4,000 meters below the sea surface, and think polymetallic nodules—the sought-after bounty of deep-sea miners—could be the source. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The next wave of obesity drugs could help people lose even more weight—and make some pharma companies a fortune. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Activists believe that the vice president, who is already the leading voice for reproductive rights in the Biden administration, will champion their cause. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Doctors find themselves without critical systems and diagnostic tools—and face the daunting reality that a full recovery could take days—after CrowdStrike’s botched deployment of a software update. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Analysis of lunar imagery has ended a longstanding debate over whether there are accessible underground areas on the Moon; an emptied lava tube in the Sea of Tranquility is of particular interest. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Missions to explore other worlds, like Mars or Saturn’s moon Titan, could disrupt or destroy extraterrestrial life in the process of seeking it. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Legislation in coming years will set up a publicly owned clean power company and leverage the Crown Estate for investment in green infrastructure. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Improperly discarded batteries leak toxic chemicals and are prone to exploding. A new program funded by the Department of Energy will prop up battery drop-off sites across the US. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Robotics researchers are exploring how large language models can give physical machines more smarts. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

In a livestreamed update on X, Elon Musk and Neuralink executives gave an update on the company's next study participant—and its next-generation brain implant. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Generative artificial intelligence tools, now part of the everyday user experience online, are causing stress on local power grids and mass water evaporation. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Cheap, low-energy evaporative cooling devices are keeping water, food, people, and even whole buildings cool across India. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Much of health care is designed with the “comfortable middle” of society in mind, says designer Yves Behar, when it should be tailored to children, the elderly, and those with disabilities. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

When butterflies not native to South America appeared on a beach in French Guiana, entomologists started sleuthing to prove where they came from—and how they might have got there. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls “an analog system in a digital age.” Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To improve outcomes for female patients, all evidence needs to be considered—while outdated myths about the significance of sex differences need to be retired. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

For many patients, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy lead to substantial weight loss. But some see much less benefit, and researchers are trying to figure out why. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Collins Aerospace is expected to back out of a contract with NASA, while high interest rates and a difficult supply chain environment have affected Axiom. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Google’s AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Thomas Heatherwick believes architecture has a “nutritional value” to society—and that the public desperately deserve a better offering. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

It’s a question of when, not if, highly effective treatments become available, says the CEO of Alzheimer’s Research UK. But that doesn’t solve the problem of one-third of dementia patients still going undiagnosed. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A new project is paying researchers to find errors in other scientists’ work. The only problem? Even error hunters make mistakes. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

With chatbot and AI development largely coming from the US, some EU entrepreneurs and politicians say local champions are needed to prevent a cultural flattening. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

To understand how to take a match-winning penalty, you’ve got to understand the physics behind the perfect kick. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The vehicle mostly survived launch and reentry—key stepping stones toward operational flights of the largest rocket in history. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Extreme weather threatens the investment value of many properties, but financing for climate mitigation efforts are only just getting going. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

UK retailers have accused Amazon of using its Buy Box section to choke their businesses, reigniting a years-long debate over whether there was foul play. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Generative AI Is Coming for Sales Execs’ Jobs—and They’re Celebrating Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Players, aided by technology, are hitting the ball farther than ever, and courses can’t keep getting longer—meaning operators are having to find smarter ways to keep the sport challenging. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

At its Worldwide Developers Conference, Apple introduced its first serious foray into generative AI, with a focus on app integrations and data privacy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Some residents of Yellowknife are staying behind to fight back wildfires that could soon engulf the Canadian city. Others have shared harrowing stories as they race to escape the flames. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Apple Intelligence will make apps and services smarter. But Apple’s most notable innovations focus on ensuring the technology doesn't disappoint, annoy, or offend. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

A popular AI training dataset is “stealing and weaponizing” the faces of Brazilian children without their knowledge or consent, human rights activists claim. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Research is uncovering the key role that fungi play in getting soils to absorb carbon, and how humanity’s actions aboveground are wreaking havoc in the mysterious fungal world below. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

The fireflies of Moriyama City have long been prized (and hunted) for their yellow-green glow. To bring populations back up, amateur conservationists are hitting the books. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Mounting research suggests that cephalopods experience pain. Now, the National Institutes of Health is considering new animal welfare rules that would put them in the same category as monkeys. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Scientists use microphones and AI to automatically detect species by their chirps and croaks. This bioacoustics research could be critical for protecting ecosystems on a warming planet. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Experiments show that asking AI chatbots to work together on a problem can compensate for some of their shortcomings. WIRED enlisted two bots to help plan this article. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

We're bringing an extra episode from our show What's New.Here’s what the science really says about teens and screens—and how to start the conversation with young people of any age. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

During a tour of Silicon Valley, EU vice president Věra Jourová said she expects tech giants to prioritize stamping out content that could distort democracy. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Surgeons at NYU took out the pig kidney because it wasn’t getting enough blood flow. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

What goes on in artificial neural networks work is largely a mystery, even to their creators. But researchers from Anthropic have caught a glimpse. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices

Drought-stricken hydro dams have led to daily electricity cuts in Ecuador. As weather becomes less predictable die to climate change, experts say other countries need to take notice. Learn about your ad choices: dovetail.prx.org/ad-choices