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Chelsea Whyte

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Chelsea Whyte is a senior editor at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ. She has worked as a staff journalist at ¿ìè¶ÌÊÓƵ since 2017, in previous roles as US Editor, senior news editor, a US reporter and as the physics and space news editor. She has a master's degree in journalism from Northwestern University.

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Mind

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Space

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A thunderstorm

Physics

Most powerful thunderstorm ever measured produced 1.3 billion volts

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Twins in the womb

Humans

Women with a twin brother are more likely to drop out of school

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IBM Four Qubit Square Circuit

Technology

IBM made a quantum algorithm that could make AI more powerful

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Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

Mind

Brain scans reveal actors lose their sense of self when acting a role

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Three generations of Bornean elephant pass through a palm oil plantation

Environment

Human activity impacts a quarter of the world’s threatened species

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Two hands come together

Humans

How belief in punitive gods may have helped large societies cooperate

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Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan

Technology

Hacking just 1 in 10 cars could gridlock all of the roads in Manhattan

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The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary

Environment

The US has started burning recycling but it should only be temporary

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Two days remain until the planned liftoff of a SpaceX Crew Dragon spacecraft on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket—the first launch of a commercially built and operated American spacecraft and space system designed for humans. Liftoff is targeted for 2:49 a.m. EST on Saturday, March 2, from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The Demo-1 mission to the International Space Station serves as an end-to-end test of the system’s capabilities.

Space

SpaceX is about to launch a dummy astronaut called Ripley to the ISS

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Natasha Lyonne

Physics

Russian Doll: To escape the multiverse, think like Einstein

Culture

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