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Now, almost 30,000 homes and businesses have had their water lines replaced, but 1,900 others have still not been reviewed.

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An array of new products monitors users’ brain waves using caps or headbands. That neural data has few privacy protections.

For her new book, Aarathi Prasad spent years researching the past and future of silk—and even grew her own silkworms.

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The “mental snapshots” readers shared from the April 8 solar eclipse capture the joy, wonder, and surreality of the day.