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The Plan to Drop Thousands of Flies From a Drone to Tackle Disease
This drone prototype will carry precious cargo: an army of insects engineered to wipe out their own kind.
Officials Are Evacuating the City in Kazakhstan Where Villagers Fall Asleep At Random
They're hoping that by rounding everyone up and kicking them out the affliction will just disappear.
Villagers in Kazakhstan Are Falling Asleep En Masse for No Apparent Reason
Classified as an encephalopathy of unclear origin—the highfalutin term for a weird brain disorder we can't figure out—villagers who do not simply keel over while moving or working report feeling weakness, dizziness, and memory and motor control loss.
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