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Never Underestimate the Intelligence of Trees
Plants communicate, nurture their seedlings, and get stressed.
Are We Flushing Our Resistance to Antibiotics Down the Drain?
Taking account of the drug-resistant germs turning up in rivers and soils.
Google and IBM Clash Over Milestone Quantum Computing Experiment
Today Google announced that it achieved “quantum supremacy.” Its chief quantum computing rival, IBM, said it hasn’t. The disagreement hinges on what the term really means.
Mathematicians Begin to Tame Wild ‘Sunflower’ Problem
A major advance toward solving the 60-year-old sunflower conjecture is shedding light on how order begins to appear as random systems grow in size.
Omniviolence Is Coming and the World Isn’t Ready
Emerging bio-, nano-, and cyber-technologies are enabling criminals to target anyone, anywhere, at scale.
The Implant That Can Control Your Brain
This nanoscale device meshes seamlessly with your neurons.










