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World Cup health monitoring ramps up as Mars mission ends and AI rules shift

World Cup health monitoring ramps up as Mars mission ends and AI rules shift

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World Cup crowds spark outbreak tracking as AI tensions rise and ancient Rome’s roads get a stunning reboot

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In this episode of Science Quickly, we look at how World Cup host
cities are tracking potential disease outbreaks with wastewater
surveillance, discuss the loss of NASA’s long-running MAVEN orbiter
at Mars, unpack a new order pushing AI companies to share models
with the government and explore a striking new map that reveals
just how vast ancient Rome’s road network really was. Recommended
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Science Quickly is produced by Rachel Feltman, Fonda Mwangi,
Sushmita Pathak and Jeff DelViscio. This episode was edited by Alex
Sugiura, with fact-checking by Marielle Issa and Aaron Shattuck.
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