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ChatGPT, Obesity Drugs, Exoplanet Images, and Medical Miracles: The Most Amazing Breakthroughs of 2022

Plain English with Derek Thompson

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The Epstein-Barr Virus, E-B-V, Could Be a Cause of Multiple Sclerosis

Earth is fortunate to have a magnetosphere in the atmosphere that keeps our atmosphere from having been blown away over the last billion years or so. If you study exoplanets, we could sort of get an idea of how common is that. How common is it for an atmosphere to build up on a rocky planet? And if you ever did find a star system that had a bunch of magnetic fields and all of them had atmospheres in them, that could be a sign of a terraforming civilization.

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