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For many patients, GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy lead to substantial weight loss. But some see much less benefit, and researchers are trying to figure out why. |
A hot ocean provides the energy hurricanes need to grow—and can limit the cooling that happens in their wake, making it likelier that the storms that follow will be powerful ones. |
A new generation of engineers has realized they can push heat pumps to the limit, but just how much heat you can extract depends on your setup. |
More than 30 million Brits have the NHS app. This represents an opportunity to transform the health service, which shadow health secretary Wes Streeting calls "an analog system in a digital age." |
Climate change is making hail storms more intense, so designers have to find novel solutions to protect panels from expensive damage. |
The people of Phoenix will suffer under extreme heat this summer. The city has workers for that. |
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| There are biological underpinnings to aging—and so researchers are investigating cell manipulations, transfusions of young blood, and chemical compounds that can mimic low-calorie diets. |
| This supergiant star is in our celestial neighborhood, and it's threatening to go supernova. What would that look like from down here? |
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Google's AI research lab DeepMind is steadily building knowledge of how genes and their products work inside the body—and how and why they sometimes go wrong. |
| Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems, establishing a new foundation for what is needed to keep information secure. |
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WIRED took Meta's Ray-Ban Smart Glasses to French-speaking Canada to trial its AI smarts. Quelle catastrophe! |
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