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Meet the new subvariants, your summer bummers
The omicron variant of Covid-19 has branched out into more transmissible and evasive versions.
To kill or not to kill: Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse”
Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science?
Quantum computers could change the world — provided they can work
Qubits, decoherence, and superposition: a guide to the weird and revolutionary world of quantum computers.
The blood-hungry parasite that threatens big fish and business in the Great Lakes
More than a century after they arrived, invasive sea lampreys still threaten the Great Lakes’ $7 billion fishing economy.
An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough
She says Shell "blatantly doesn’t care" about climate change.
How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other
Are you "hopping on a trend" or are you plagiarizing?
What we know so far about monkeypox
Hundreds of cases of the rare viral disease have been detected in Europe and North America. Experts are cautiously concerned.
Why Biden’s off-the-cuff comment about defending Taiwan matters
Biden hasn’t discarded longtime policy toward Taiwan, but it sounds like he has.