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1. Is there an environmental case for genetic engineering?
By Richard Conniff in Yale Environment 360
2. Our understanding of ‘emotional intelligence’ needs a rewrite.
By Lisa Feldman Barrett in Nautilus
3. Doctors and insurers are looking harder at non-health factors to help patients — and it’s working.
By Kristian Foden-Vencil at NPR
4. This new catalyst could vastly simplify drawing clean hydrogen power from water.
By Rice University
5. Could the so-called love hormone fight PTSD?
By Melissa Pandika in Ozy
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