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Bac To The Future
Teixobactin Antibiotics have received a great deal of media attention in the wake of the recent discovery of teixobactin, a new soil bacterium with strong antibiotic properties. Northeasten University...
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The Genes That Make Us Human—and How We Thwart Them
Lascaux Cave, France. (Photo by Bayes Ahmed via Flickr) Though I often prefer other species, humans do have an extraordinary ability to use language, tell stories, make art, share symbols, show...
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Slouching Toward Chatbots
(Rawpixel) https://commonreader.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/07/20230715-105839.mp3 Washington University just issued some sensible guidance to researchers excited about the latest AI...
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Fear of Flushing
(Shutterstock) https://commonreader.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/flush-9m.mp3 “Automatic flushing toilets, which use sensors to detect when a person has finished using the toilet and flush...
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Repair of the World
https://commonreader.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/repair-9m.mp3 The waiter has a toilet plunger over his shoulder. “He locked his keys in his car,” the bartender explains. “He’s trying...
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Burying Carbon Dioxide Sounds Clever But….
(Shutterstock) https://commonreader.wustl.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/carbon-7m.mp3 Reading the news these days is hard. I open last week’s issue of The Week and learn that “forever...
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