1. Credit cards may soon be a thing of the past.
By Klint Finley in Wired
2. One way to increase graduation rates? Hire more underrepresented faculty.
By Renée Byng Yancey in Equal Measure
3. Here’s how prescription heroin could fix the opioid epidemic.
By German Lopez in Vox
4. Do we actually need to be nice?
By Eva M. Krockow, Andrew M. Colman, and Briony Pulford in Popular Science
5. Custom-fit lungs might be in our future.
By Neil Parmar in OZY

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