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1. Computers are learning to see in the rain. Here’s why.
By Emily Brown in the Outline
2. What’s behind the epidemic of unnecessary medical treatments?
By David Epstein in ProPublica
3. Goodbye wires: This whole room charges all the devices inside it wirelessly.
By Phys.org
4. Sometimes sending your kid to the best school could backfire.
By Roberta Kwok in Kellogg Insight
5. How states can lead the fight on climate change — without Washington.
By the editors of the Boston Globe
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