There’s an Environmental Case for Genetic Engineering

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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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