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How to build the next wave of clean energy
Jennifer Granholm steered Michigan through the auto industry's near-collapse and later ran the US Department of Energy during the largest clean energy investment in the country's history. In conversation with climate investor Ryan Panchadsaram, she explains why the next chapter of clean en..
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Meet the hydra: Masters of immortality
In 1740, naturalist Abraham Trembley found something shocking in pondwater. He couldn't tell if it was a plant or an animal, though its way of moving and consuming things seemed animal-like. But when he cut parts off or even split it in two, it regenerated, which was decidedly plant-like. So, w..
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Why the best learners talk to themselves
With more information at our fingertips than ever before, learning should be getting easier ... yet the opposite seems to be true, says cognitive scientist Tania Lombrozo. Drawing on her research into how our minds understand and reason, she explores why more information can actually make learning h..
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What if you could read the DNA of your future child?
For all of human history, a baby's DNA was determined by chance at conception: the so-called genetic lottery.
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Beyond the Talk: Michael Snyder on wearables, AI agents and the future of health care
Genomicist Michael Snyder calls himself
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The joy of foraging your own food
There's a whole world of food growing right outside our doors — in our backyards, on sidewalks, in the parks we walk through every day — and most of us pass by it without a second glance. Alexis Nikole Nelson wants to change that. A self-described
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