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Social Justice

Will the Zika Virus Outbreak Change Minds About GMOs?

The Zika virus outbreak in the Americas hits on the things that risk-perception researchers know worry people most. Will that be enough to overcome people's fears about genetically modified mosquitoes?

Environment

The Artificial Intelligence That Solved Go

Nineteen years after Deep Blue won a chess match against a grand master, a Google team has created an A.I. that's able to win against professional players of the ancient Chinese strategy game of Go.

Social Justice

Needle Exchanges Work—Now Let’s Bring Them to the Suburbs and Countryside

Volunteers in inner cities launched the United States' first needle exchange programs, but now the need has moved to suburban and rural America.

Environment

Climate Change Is Deadly for Snowshoe Hares

If the world keeps emitting greenhouse gases at a high rate and the hares don't adapt, they'll decline by 23 percent by the end of the century.

News in Brief

Two of Los Angeles’ Biggest Wrongful Conviction Cases Exemplify the Justice System’s Biggest Errors

Together, the exonerated men have spent 60 years in prison.

News in Brief

Since We Last Spoke: Violent Exemptions

Updates to past Pacific Standard stories.

Social Justice

Five Studies on the Links Between Sugar and Heart Disease

The scientific evidence for whether eating too much sugar causes Type 2 diabetes and other diseases.