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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.
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To kill or not to kill: Butterflying during the “insect apocalypse”
Is it still ethical to collect butterflies for science?
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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.
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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.
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An oil industry consultant explains why she’s had enough
She says Shell "blatantly doesn’t care" about climate change.
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How the internet gets people to plagiarize each other
Are you "hopping on a trend" or are you plagiarizing?
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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.
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The complicated tension of telling the truth at Cannes
The world’s most glamorous film festival lingers in the tension between celebrating the rich and eating them.
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Welcome to the May issue of The Highlight
In this issue: The anti-abortion movement’s post-Roe future, the plant peddlers of Appalachia, the real effect of the child tax credit now that it’s gone, and more.
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The profound impact of giving American families a little more cash
Six months of payments lifted millions of children out of poverty. Then they stopped.
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Play-to-earn gaming sounds too good to be true. It probably is.
The video game industry’s clumsy flirtation with Web3 doesn’t feel like it has actual players in mind.