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The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

The hacker turned politician using digital tech to reimagine democracy

After the first covid-19 cases were declared in mainland China in late 2019, she became a central player in the Taiwanese government’s response as a cabinet member for digital affairs.


Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why

Some people have never gotten COVID-19. An obscure gene may be why

The results stem from a challenge trial: At the height of the pandemic in 2021, scientists in the United Kingdom exposed 36 young, healthy unvaccinated volunteers who’d never gotten COVID-19 to the virus through their noses (SN: 2/18/21).


Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding

Baby-led weaning makes little nutritional difference vs spoon-feeding

The researchers found no significant differences in daily energy intake – as defined by the number of calories consumed per kilogram of the baby’s body weight – at any point between the groups.


Pierce’s disease still plagues California wine country

Pierce’s disease still plagues California wine country

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Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome

Neanderthal child may have had Down’s syndrome

A fossil bone displaying features consistent with Down’s syndrome belonged to a Neanderthal child who survived beyond 6 years old, adding to evidence that these extinct humans cared for members of their community


How powdered rock could help slow climate change

How powdered rock could help slow climate change

And from Michigan to Mississippi, farmers are scattering volcanic rock dust on their wheat, soy and corn fields with ag spreaders typically reserved for dispersing crushed limestone to adjust soil acidity.


Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Moss that survives deep freeze and radiation could live on Mars

Syntrichia caninervis is widespread in some of Earth’s harshest locations, including Tibet and Antarctica, so Xiaoshuang Li at the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography in Urumqi, China, and his colleagues decided to subject it to a brutal suite of tests to discover just how much it could survive.


‘The beauty of symbolic equations is that it’s much easier to … see a problem at a glance’: How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

‘The beauty of symbolic equations is that it’s much easier to … see a problem at a glance’: How we moved from words and pictures to thinking symbolically

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Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer

Maxwell’s demon charges quantum batteries inside of a quantum computer

Later, physicists realised that the demon could not break thermodynamic laws “for free” because it would spend energy during its particle selection process, but the idea remained of interest because it can naturally occur in biology and has uses in chemistry.


An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

An ancient earthquake changed the course of the Ganges River

Flooding from a river shift caused by a similar quake today could threaten up to 170 million people — a number equal to about half the population of the United States — who live in an Illinois-sized area of India and Bangladesh, Chamberlain says.


China’s Chang’e 6 returns with first rocks from far side of the moon

China’s Chang’e 6 returns with first rocks from far side of the moon

Its landing and collection manoeuvres relied heavily on autonomous processes and robotic tools, although Chinese engineers could send messages to the spacecraft through the Queqiao-2 relay satellite, which launched in March this year and is still in orbit around the moon.


In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is climate change

In ‘Warming Up,’ the sports world’s newest opponent is climate change

One heartening example is Innes FitzGerald, a teenage cross-country runner who refused to fly from Britain to Australia for the 2023 World Athletics Championships out of concern for air travel’s carbon emissions (SN: 5/14/20).