This Device Can Help Beat Malaria

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1. This device could transform how we detect — and help us beat — malaria.

By Randy Rieland in Smithsonian

2. 2016 was another banner year for military waste. Can it be stopped?

By Matthew Gault in War Is Boring

3. There’s another big window for learning after childhood.

By Drake Baer in the Science of Us

4. Can science engineer a less allergic peanut?

By Roxanne Khamsi in New York Times Magazine

5. This is why people overshare on the internet.

By Alexandra Samuel at JSTOR Daily

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