In this episode of Science Quickly, we look at how World Cup host cities are tracking potential disease outbreaks with wastewater surveillance, discuss the loss of NASA’s long-running MAVEN orbiter at Mars, unpack a new order pushing AI companies to share models with the government and explore a striking new map that reveals just how vast ancient Rome’s road network really was.

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<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nasas-mars-mission-maven-is-lost-forever/">NASA’s Mars mission MAVEN is lost forever</a>
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<a href="https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-high-resolution-map-transforms-what-we-know-about-roman-roads-and-the-roman-empire/">New map reveals lost roads of the Roman Empire</a>
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