Atmospheric carbon is a currency that plants use to “buy” nutrients from fungi in the soil. To find out where this economy will go next, the devil is in the details. And the details are in the dirt.

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Like us, plants and fungi have complex economies. By burning fossil fuels, we’ve been devaluing their currency.

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Drugs such as Wegovy and Ozempic might help people tackle substance abuse as well as shed pounds.

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Scientists used a smoking machine—complete with a 3-D-printed mouthpiece—to figure out how to get the most cannabinoid per puff. 

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New AI technology predicts hit songs—by listening to someone’s body. 

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Here’s what’s behind the A.I technology that has worried so many actors—including something called “the orb.”

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A sleep researcher who studies what dreams can tell us about the possible onset of some mental disorders believes lucid dreamers might hold a lot of answers in their head.

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Here’s what a historian who has studied J. Robert Oppenheimer for two decades has to say about the new Christopher Nolan film on the father of the atomic bomb.

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Inflammatory bowel disease flare-ups can be traced to mental stress

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Here’s how large language models, or LLMs, actually work. 

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