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May 16, 2023

Genetics The DNA You Shed Could Identify You The DNA you shed everywhere could be used to identify you, and experts are concerned By Jenny Whilde,Jessica Alice Farrell,The Conversation

Food Science Shows Why Traditional Kimchi Making Works So Well A new study reveals why handmade fermentation vessels called onggi stand the test of time By Rachel Crowell

Ethics Cedar the Goat's Story Revealed Our Beliefs about Pets and Livestock People who raise animals for slaughter do hard, emotional labor that spares everyone else who eats meat from that burden, concludes a sociologist By Leslie Irvine

Public Health The Jackson Water Crisis Didn't Need to Happen Academics can do more to help disadvantaged communities in the U.S. By Erica D. Walker

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Renewable Energy 'SuperLab' Will Test U.S. Power Grid Against Climate Disasters The Energy Department is launching an initiative to mimic climate disasters and other threats against the power grid By John Fialka,E&E News

Toxicology World's Deadliest Mushroom May Now Have an Antidote A CRISPR gene-editing technique might have finally cracked the mystery of how death cap mushrooms kill and revealed a possible antidote By Saima Sidik,Nature magazine

Astrophysics Largest-Ever Cosmic Explosion Has Raged for Years For at least three years, the mysterious blast has shined ten times brighter than any supernova By Robert Lea,SPACE.com

Health Care More Hospitals Are Creating Police Forces Criminalizing patients could have adverse consequences, experts warn By Renuka Rayasam,Kaiser Health News

FROM THE STORE Scientific American Volume 328, Issue 6

FROM THE ARCHIVE How to Identify Almost Anyone in a Consumer Gene Database New techniques that dig more deeply into genetic databases may soon make the anonymity of their customers’ DNA impossible to safeguard By Paul Raeburn | October 2018

WHAT WE'RE READING Your Boss Wants AI to Replace You. The Writers' Strike Shows How to Fight Back   By Brian Merchant | Los Angeles Times | May 11, 2023

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