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B. David Zarley

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B. David Zarley is a senior staff writer for Freethink, where he covers health and medicine, including infectious disease, psychedelic research, mental health, and the brain. A graduate of SUNY Fredonia, his work has also appeared in The Atlantic, The Verge, Jezebel, Frieze, Sports Illustrated, VICE, Paste Magazine, and numerous other publications. He lives in Chicago and can be reached via Signal by request. Send him story ideas!

Public Health

New children’s malaria treatment clears out infection in liver

Malaria can hide in the liver, causing relapse months or years later. Now, public health officials have a new treatment to prevent relapse for children under 16.

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Virology

New Ebola antibodies neutralize the most dangerous strains of the virus

Researchers have found two new antibodies which bind to the most dangerous strains of Ebola.

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Memory

Newly discovered types of brain cells may hold the key to memory

Researchers believe they have discovered two new types of brain cells that play a key role in memory.

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Virology

Scientists discover how the AIDS virus breaks cellular “lockdown”

HIV replication continues even when infected cells shut down. New research shows how.

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Sustainability

MIT’s new plant-based material could replace plastics

Using cellulose from wood, MIT researchers have made a plant-based material tough as bone and hard as aluminum.

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Disaster Response

Starlink lands in Ukraine

Starlink satellite internet service has been established in Ukraine.

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Disaster Response

Airbnb offering free temporary housing to refugees of Russo-Ukrainian war

Airbnb has announced that it will help temporarily house up to 100,000 refugees of the Russo-Ukrainian war.

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Democracy

Open source intelligence exposes war as never before

In a new era of open source intelligence, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine can be studied by anyone with the desire to find, and analyze, data available to all.

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We should teach AIs to drive the same way we teach kids

To help self-driving AIs learn more like humans do, Canadian startup Waabi has created a digital world to act as driving school and Danger Room.

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Neuroscience

Scientists use ultrasound to control brain cells in animals

Researchers have used ultrasound to trigger the brain cells of mice with a technique called sonogenetics.

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