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Bubonic, septicemic, and pneumonic plague come from the same bacterium. Here is how each form spreads, what it looks like, why the lung form is the one that passes between people, and how antibiotics treat it today.
Some experiments finish in an afternoon. A few have been running longer than anyone looking after them has been alive.
When someone loses the ability to speak, a screen full of decoded text can still feel like a half-conversation. Recent
Most phones draw the pistol emoji as a water gun now. The Unicode character name is still PISTOL. The short
A spacecraft does not need thick armor to survive a hit from a fleck of rock or scrap metal. The
Sphere Las Vegas is not a normal concert hall. On show night the building tries to surround you — with
Boats do not climb hills. On land, a road can zigzag up a slope. On water, the surface has to
When a robotics company outgrows a whole generation of machines, the usual story is scrap yards and screwdrivers. Figure chose
You do not need a rental car for a Las Vegas Strip trip. Buses, a monorail, free resort trams, walking
Your phone’s blue dot looks like a map trick. Underneath it is a timing machine: a swarm of satellites carrying
For years, the usual way to lower the chance of getting HIV before a possible exposure was a pill you
A plant in Iceland pulls carbon dioxide out of ordinary outdoor air, then locks it underground as stone. That idea
The tiny fat bubbles that carry mRNA vaccines into our cells work remarkably well — and they also tend to
Fusion machines need split-second course corrections that no human can make in time. Inside a doughnut-shaped magnetic bottle called a
Coding helpers used to finish the line you were typing. Now many of them open your project, edit several files,
A tiny wireless chip under the retina, paired with special glasses, helped most people in a major trial read again
Quantum computers make a lot of tiny mistakes. Error correction is how you still get a reliable answer — by
A power plant in rural Utah has started selling electricity made from heat locked in deep, dry rock — not
Researchers can now rebuild a rough picture of what you were looking at from a brain scan. Not your private
For most of the last twenty-seven years, the fastest jet the United States ever put into service sat outdoors in
