In early 2024, a striking illustration in a published article sparked a lively debate on social media. The image showed a rat with a penis and testicles larger than the rest of the animal’s body. The authors noted that the illustration was generated by an artificial intelligence model called Midjourney, but was obviously inaccurate, as
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Ten years ago, the virus that causes polio seemed to be on its way to extinction. In August 2016, Nigeria experienced its last two cases of the wild virus, leaving it circulating only in Afghanistan and Pakistan. Amid global enthusiasm, Hamid Jafari, who at the time was leading polio operations and research at the World
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