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March 4—This week, a biotech company uses woolly mammoth DNA to create the "woolly mouse." Plus, big promises from companies building private space stations, and virtual reality tasting is on the way. That and more below! --Andrea Gawrylewski, Chief Newsletter Editor

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Company Seeking to Resurrect the Woolly Mammoth Creates a 'Woolly Mouse' On their quest to bring back the extinct woolly mammoth, Colossal Biosciences has developed the woolly mouse Adam Popescu

Private Space Stations of the Future Promise Luxury. But Can They Deliver? Several companies have contracts with NASA to design private space habitats to replace the International Space Station once it’s gone Sarah Scoles

A New Device Lets You Taste Things without Actually Eating Them This tiny instrument lets users taste things—without actually eating them—by releasing a combination of chemicals that reconstruct different tastes. But replicating associated smells and textures will take some time Gayoung Lee

New NASA Space Telescope Will See the Universe in 102 Colors NASA’s SPHEREx mission will survey the entire sky in 102 different “colors” of light, offering scientists an unprecedented look at the earliest days of the universe and much more Meghan Bartels

In the Quantum Realm, Time’s Arrow Might Fly in Two Directions Scientists studying a centuries-old mystery of physics suggest two “arrows of time” control the evolution of quantum systems Gayoung Lee

Trump’s ‘Iron Dome’ Space Weapons Plan Ignores Physics and Fiscal Reality Proposed U.S. space defenses against hypersonic nuclear missiles are unnecessary, impractical and would trigger a dangerous new arms race Dan Vergano, staff journalist

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