Across various fields, we constantly attempt to refine, control, and optimize complex systems. But whether it’s chatbots reshaping beliefs, cows engineered for more nutritious milk, drugs that ...

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The terms “synthetic” and “ultra-processed” are widely (and opportunistically) used as warning labels and marketing ...

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Every so often, nutrition makes claims that require readers to suspend not just disbelief but basic understanding of ...

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AI has all but overtaken the thinking universe. Training an early version of ChatGPT consumes about 1300 megawatt-hours of ...

From tiny cells to vast cities, life persists by keeping chaos under control. The same thermodynamic forces that cause coffee ...