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  1. Health & Medicine

    What freediving can reveal about human health — and our limits

    The practice of freediving is teaching physiologists how humans stretch their physical and mental limits, which in turn may improve treatments for lung and heart ailments.

    By Elizabeth Pennisi
  2. Animals

    AI-powered whale-spotting tech may help save San Francisco Bay’s gray whales

    An AI trained to use thermal images to detect whale body heat could help warn ships at risk of colliding with the marine mammals.

    By Carolyn Gramling
  3. Health & Medicine

    Damaged DNA can spread between human cells. What could that mean for cancer?

    DNA can voyage along intercellular highways called tunneling nanotubes. It’s a phenomenon that could potentially spread tumor DNA to healthy cells.