Ancestry and 23andMe Agree to New Rules to Make You Feel Safer Handing Over Your DNA
Under new voluntary protocols, these companies will obtain separate consent from users before sharing personal information and genetic data with other businesses.
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Under new voluntary protocols, these companies will obtain separate consent from users before sharing personal information and genetic data with other businesses.
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The findings are both fascinating and terrifying.
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The consensus is clear: American nuclear physicists really, really want an electron-ion collider.
“It’s smart to leverage everything we know about our own Solar System.”
In the third episode of our series “Sound Mysteries,” we explore the unnerving case of the Aztec death whistle.
NASA’s newest exoplanet-hunting spacecraft has started taking scientific data as of last week, according to a NASA release.
The discovery, if legitimate, would represent the longest-surviving return from the cold ever seen in a complex, multi-celled organism.
Go look at space!
