Weekly: New human cases of bird flu; Sail away to Alpha Centauri; Sea slugs hunt in packs
#259 More people in the US are getting bird flu. Though numbers are small – just five new cases, all mild – every new case is a reason for concern. How and why is it being transmitted – and how is it being monitored? What if you could make a sailboat that’s pushed not by wind, but lasers? Breakthrough Starshot is a…
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