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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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Health

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Life

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Culture

Chelsea Lydell holds her son, Joseph, 4, as she joins hundreds of others waiting to get into a legislative committee to oppose a proposal to give state public health officials instead of local doctors the power to decide which children can skip their shots before attending school, at the Capitol, in Sacramento, Calif. The bill, by state Sen. Richard Pan, D-Sacramento, a pediatrician, said his legislation would give state health officials the tools they need to prevent outbreaks of vaccine-preventable diseases like measles

Health

California's strict vaccination laws may only have a small effect

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Technology

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Technology

Quantum supremacy: What can we do with a quantum computer?

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Technology

Google's qubit rivals: The race to useful quantum computers has begun

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Space

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Technology

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Culture

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Life

Experiments show us how animal minds work – but should we do them?

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Space

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