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When the Next Animal Plague Hits, Can This Lab Stop It?

By Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley
Science

How Humans Think When They Think As Part of a Group

By Annie Murphy Paul
Business

Inside Silicon Valley’s Mayo Marketing Madness

By Larissa Zimberoff
Science

Awesome, Hypnotic Photos of Swirling, Crystal Chemistry

By Meghan Herbst
Culture

How a Geeky Superhero Fan Revived a Failing Comic Con 

By Jon Levy
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The Secret Origins of Amazon’s Alexa

By Brad Stone
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The Wolf Tree and the World Wide Web

By Suzanne Simard
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A Brief History of Transformers (Not the Robot Kind)

By Vaclav Smil
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Here’s What It Takes to Fly a Drone on Mount Everest

By Mark Synnott
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The Secret Auction That Set Off the Race for AI Supremacy

By Cade Metz
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How a Hashtag Went Viral—and Incited a Military Intervention

By Joe Parkinson and Drew Hinshaw
Science

How Elon Musk Convinced Gwynne Shotwell to Join SpaceX

By Eric Berger, Ars Technica
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2034, Part VI: Crossing the Red Line

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2034, Part V: Sailing Into Darkness

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
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2034, Part IV: The Spratly Islands Ambush

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
Security

The Untold History of America’s Zero-Day Market

By Nicole Perlroth
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2034, Part III: One Left to Tell the Tale

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
Science

Here’s What Learning to Juggle Does to Your Brain

By Tom Vanderbilt
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2034, Part II: Blackout in Washington, DC

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
Culture

The Rise of One of the First Video Game Workers Unions

By Sarah Jaffe
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2034, Part I: Peril in the South China Sea

By Elliot Ackerman and Admiral James Stavridis
Business

Palantir’s God’s-Eye View of Afghanistan

By Annie Jacobsen
Science

If You Are Going to Survive, You Must Prepare to Fail

By John Hudson
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The Autonomous-Car Chaos of the 2004 Darpa Grand Challenge

By Alex Davies
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