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Would Luddites find the gig economy familiar?

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EnlargeMatthieu Spohn The term Luddite is usually used as an insult. It suggests someone who is backward-looking, averse to progress, afraid of...

A locally grown solution for period poverty

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Enlarge / Sisal is an invasive species that is also grown agriculturally.Chris Hellier Women and girls across much of the developing world...

New algorithm finds lots of gene-editing enzymes in environmental DNA

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Enlarge / The protein structure of CAS, shown with nucleic acids bound.Bang Wong, Broad Institute CRISPR—Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats—is the...

Determinism vs. free will: A scientific showdown

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EnlargeKTSDESIGN The takeaway of Robert Sapolsky’s Determined: A Science of Life Without Free Will is basically the same as that espoused by...

Context is everything: Why key developments often sit unused

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Enlarge / Mock-up of Sleeping Beauties book cover.Simon & Schuster Andreas Wagner is interested in evolution, that of molecules, species, and ideas....

The lessons of a wildfire that destroyed a town and burned for 15 months

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Enlarge / The aftermath of the Fort McMurray fire.Katie Daubs At noon on May 3, the fire chief in the oil town...

Your chocolate comes with a side order of deforestation

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Enlarge / A cocoa pod, this one grown in Asia.Tan Dao Duy Cocoa farmers in Ghana and Côte d'Ivoire make less than...

Ready the Ig Nobel: Researchers incorporate used diapers into concrete

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EnlargeRenphoto Government building rules and regulations can be outdated and misguided, insisting upon conventional building materials with prices that aren’t compatible with...

When innovation goes south: The tech that never quite worked out

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Enlarge / Once the future of travel, now a museum piece.Didier Messens Vaclav Smil reminds us that despite the onslaught of popular...

Are we ethically ready to set up shop in space?

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Enlarge / Orbiting space station from 2001: A Space Odyssey.Sunset Boulevard/Corbis via Getty Images Off-Earth will amaze you: On nearly every page,...

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