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Sarah Zhang

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A Lot of Weird Stuff Has Been Happening in the Oceans

That New Superbug Was Found in a UTI and That’s Key

A Huge Solar Plant Caught on Fire, and That’s the Least of Its Problems

Scientists Are Just as Confused About the Ethics of Big-Data Research as You

Does Monsanto's Roundup Herbicide Cause Cancer or Not? The Controversy, Explained

A Chemical Reaction Revolutionized Farming 100 Years Ago. Now It Needs to Go

That Long-Lost Mayan City a Teen Found Isn't Lost … or a City

The US: E-Cigs Very Bad! The UK: E-Cigs OK! All of Us: Huh?

The Mysteries of Chickpea Water, a Magical Substitute for Eggs (No, Really)

The Little Telescope That Just Discovered Three Exoplanets and One-Upped Kepler

How to Get Rid of a Dead, Rotting Whale on Your Beach (Hint: Don't Blow It Up)

No, Harvard's Mumps Outbreak Doesn't Mean Vaccines Are Bunk

A Single $249 Test Analyzes 30 Cancer Genes. But Do You Need It?

Yellow Fever's Comeback Was Utterly Avoidable, But We Blew It

Inside the Hidden Global Supply Chain for Frozen Sperm, Eggs, and Embryos

Can You Tell These Real Crispr Projects From the Fake Ones?

The US Is Playing a Dangerous Game of Musical Chairs With Nuclear Waste

Why Tesla's Model X Is Giving Some Drivers Double Vision

Oh Good: Congress Can't Even Agree to Protect the US From Zika

How British Scientists Got Inside North Korea to Study a Volcano