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A vaccine for one Ebola, tested against another

How the world decided what time it is — and why it’s still contested

How much plastic is really recycled?

How the metric system became a geopolitical weapon

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The key was 4: who decides which websites your software trusts

The science of habit: why willpower doesn’t work and what does

How the world decided what time it is — and why...

The attention economy: why your brain was not built for the...

How megadroughts ended civilizations — and the ones currently underway

Why coastlines are getting longer the more precisely you measure them

The geopolitics of the deep sea: why the ocean floor is...

The mathematics of gerrymandering: why democracy’s greatest flaw is geometric

Why nuclear fusion has been 20 years away for 70 years...

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