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The National Institutes of Health is taking steps to promote the sharing of genomic data about rare diseases. In January, the agency awarded nine million dollars to researchers at Harvard Medical School to coördinate a nationwide network of centers for rare diseases. Each center will mirror the type of work being do...

When devastating wildfires erupted across Los Angeles County this week, David Torgerson’s team of firefighters went to work. The thousands of city, county and state firefighters dispatched to battle the blazes went wherever they were needed. The crews from Torgerson’s Wildfire Defense Systems, however, set out for p...

ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. The Vegas Loop: Elon Musk’s Boring Company is constructing a planned 68-mile tunnel system beneath Las Vegas where drivers will ferry passengers around the urban core in Teslas. ...