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"One day in November, a product strategist we'll call Michelle (not her real name), logged into her LinkedIn account and switched her gender to male. She also changed her name to Michael, she told TechCrunch. She was partaking in an experiment called #WearthePants where women tested the hypothesis that LinkedIn's new algorithm was biased against women. … Michelle was suspicious about the changes because she has more than 10,000 followers and ghostwrites posts for her husband, who has only around 2,000. Yet she and her husband tend to get around the same number of post impressions, she said, despite her larger following."

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"When the orbit of NASA's Mars Atmosphere and Volatile EvolutioN (MAVEN) spacecraft took it behind the Red Planet on December 6th, ground controllers expected a temporary loss of signal (LoS). Unfortunately, the Deep Space Network hasn't heard from the science orbiter since. Engineers are currently trying to troubleshoot this issue, but without a sign of life from the stricken spacecraft, there are precious few options."

"Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe … Some children conceived using the sperm have already died from cancer, and the vast majority of those who inherited the gene will develop cancer in their lifetimes, geneticists said. The man carrying the gene passed screening checks before he became a donor at the European Sperm Bank when he was a student in 2005. His sperm has been used by women trying to conceive for 17 years across multiple countries."

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"Death Valley is legendarily one of the most extreme places on Earth, with summer temperatures regularly skyrocketing above 120 degrees Fahrenheit. This desert, located in eastern California and western Nevada, is also incredibly dry, receiving less than two inches of rainfall on average each year. Few plants can endure these severe conditions. But some — including a pale green flowering shrub called Tidestromia oblongifolia — not only survive in Death Valley, but thrive there. How?"

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