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For Americans' Health, a Dollar of Carbon Emissions Prevented Is Worth a Ton of Cure Increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere are taking an enormous toll on the human body—and it’s getting worse -- Read more on Scie. 2021-04-17 16:05:37
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The Fast Lane for COVID Testing Has Opened Up in the U.S. Recently approved rapid antigen tests are likely to help mitigate the chain of transmission and put the U.S. on par with other countries that have the. 2021-04-16 17:07:38
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National Park Nature Walks, Episode 5: A Northwoods Voyage Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist . 2021-04-16 16:07:50
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Climate Emergency Stymies Forecasts of Local Disaster Risks After a record-setting year for hurricanes and wildfires, the insurance industry is grappling with the role of our climate emergency in estimating loc. 2021-04-16 15:04:33
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These Endangered Birds Are Forgetting Their Songs Australia’s critically endangered regent honeyeaters are losing what amounts to their culture—and that could jeopardize their success at l. 2021-04-16 14:05:12
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Coping Strategies of Ocean Castaways Hold Lessons for the COVID Pandemic Shipwreck victims cast adrift for weeks or months exhibit a resilience that serves as a model to weather any extended crisis -- Read more on Scient. 2021-04-16 12:48:08
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Psilocybin Therapy May Work as Well as Common Antidepressant For the first time, a randomized controlled trial shows the psychedelic offers potent, if short-term, relief in comparison with an SSRI -- Read mor. 2021-04-15 22:48:34
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Youth Leaders for Climate Justice Say, 'We Are Ready to Work' Inspiring individuals from Argentina, Colombia and Kuwait lay out actions that can improve people’s lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.. 2021-04-15 18:04:23
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What Should We Do if Extraterrestrials Show Up? Hard to say at this point, but we a crucial first step is to establish whether they exist so any future arrival won't come as a complete surprise -. 2021-04-15 16:03:09
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A Digital Obsession How to feel less stressed and more empowered and to create a life of meaning … without your phone -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-15 15:34:42
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Schools Can Open Safely During COVID, the Latest Evidence Shows Studies have shown the risk of COVID transmission in schools is very low, provided that precautions are taken -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co. 2021-04-15 12:46:59
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Biden's Earth Day Summit Is a Crucial Opportunity for Climate Action The president should commit to cutting U.S. emissions at least 50 percent below 2005 levels by 2030 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-14 20:04:48
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How Health Care Leaders Can Support Their Frontline Workers The pandemic has taught us important lessons about the needs of the health care workforce -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-14 16:02:48
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Scientists Should Admit They Bring Personal Values to Their Work Value neutrality among researchers is a myth that hurts the public trust of science -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-14 15:04:30
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Climate Risks Bill Could Spark Shift to Truly Green Economy The legislation could incentivize greener investments by requiring companies to report the risks that climate poses to their business -- Read more . 2021-04-14 14:02:56
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Space Junk Removal Is Not Going Smoothly Despite promising technology demonstrations, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the growing problem of taking out the orbital trash -- Read. 2021-04-14 12:51:28
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First Flight of NASA's Mars Helicopter Ingenuity Is Delayed The interplanetary aircraft will launch no earlier than next week due to glitches in its flight-control software -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-04-13 22:04:33
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Johnson & Johnson Vaccine Suspension--What This Means For You An infectious disease doctor answers questions about the CDC’s and FDA’s decision to pause the vaccine’s use over a possible link wi. 2021-04-13 21:37:48
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Why Race Matters in Personalized Health Care Achieving better, more equitable treatments requires looking at multiple factors that affect populations differently, including genetic variations . 2021-04-13 20:04:31
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Floods Are Increasing in Supposedly Low-risk Areas The trend raises concerns about the accuracy of flood maps and the adequacy of insurance -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-13 19:49:37
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Celebrating 60 Years of Humans in Space The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it&rsquo. 2021-04-13 18:45:36
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Students Who Gesture during Learning 'Grasp' Concepts Better Hand movement appears to help in teaching about statistical models -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-13 15:08:27
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Gender-Affirming Health Care Should Be a Right, not a Crime Some states are going to war against young transgender people -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-13 14:07:13
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Politicians Don't Get to Use 'Science' to Oppose the Equality Act Research shows the bill will improve public health, and its “dangers” have been debunked -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-13 12:49:43
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First in Space: New Yuri Gagarin Biography Shares Hidden Side of Cosmonaut It’s been 60 years, to the day, since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7. 2021-04-13 01:04:09
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Celebrating Sixty Years of Humans in Space The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it&rsquo. 2021-04-12 21:48:34
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Glacier Is Surging Down Denali Mountain in Alaska The slumping ice is moving 50 to 100 times faster than usual -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-12 21:16:48
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More Women Than Men Are Getting COVID Vaccines The reasons may include women’s roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general -- Read mor. 2021-04-12 20:17:29
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To Fight Climate Change: Grow a Floating Forest, Then Sink It A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing green technologies aimed at reducing humankind’s carbon footp. 2021-04-12 17:03:44
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Bill Nelson Isn't the Best Choice for NASA Administrator Biden’s nominee exemplifies the agency’s pork-barrel, male-dominated past -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-12 16:06:42
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Dark Matter's Last Stand A new experiment could catch invisible particles that previous detectors have not -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-12 15:09:06
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We Are Living in a Climate Emergency, and We're Going to Say So It’s time to use a term that more than 13,000 scientists agree is needed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-12 14:38:37
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How Could a COVID Vaccine Cause Blood Clots? Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine -- Read more on ScientificAmer. 2021-04-12 14:03:50
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Forecast or Remember: The Brain Must Choose One Trying to predict a situation impedes memory formation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-12 12:47:09
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Sweeping Whale Streaming Series, Profile of CRISPR Discoverer and an Examination of Future Realities Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-11 15:07:13
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To Confront the U.S. Border Crisis, Save Central America's Forests Climate change and other environmental threats are destabilizing these vital areas and helping drive mass northward migration -- Read more on Scien. 2021-04-10 16:02:51
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A Pep Talk from Steven Pinker Despite what we see in the headlines, the data-driven optimist thinks we should be grateful to live in the best era in humanity’s long, troubled. 2021-04-10 16:02:51
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Heat-trapping Methane Surged in 2020 Aquatic ecosystems, many altered by human activities, played a surprisingly large role -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-09 18:32:32
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 4: The Virtual Vaccine Line and Shots for Kids Today we bring you the fourth episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior. 2021-04-09 18:02:44
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To Close the Gender Gap in Wages, We Need to Start Young As early as third grade, girls ask for less than boys when negotiating -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-09 17:08:13
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Nations Claim Large Overlapping Sections of Arctic Seafloor The five coastal countries will have to rectify their science and their politics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-09 16:36:02
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How to Make a Hippogriff Fly and Other Flights of Fancy A paleontologist and an illustrator team up to make mythical creatures follow biomechanical rules -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-09 15:04:17
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New Arkansas Law--and Similar Bills--Endanger Transgender Youth, Research Shows The legislation runs counter to evidence that puberty blockers and hormone treatments are safe and save lives -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co. 2021-04-09 15:04:17
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National Park Nature Walks, Episode 4: Beautiful Swamp Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist . 2021-04-09 14:04:27
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Brood X Cicadas Could Cause a Bird Baby Boom Billions of emerging insects will likely trigger predator population surges—but some species mysteriously opt out of such bounties -- Read mo. 2021-04-09 12:47:05
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How a Carnivorous Mushroom Poisons Its Prey Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work -- . 2021-04-08 21:07:04
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What Monkeys Can Teach Humans about Resilience after Disaster Following Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rican colony of rhesus macaques broadened their social networks. Could humans do the same post-COVID? -- Read m. 2021-04-08 18:50:59
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Biden Says Infrastructure Is the Pillar of his Climate Plan Clean energy, electric vehicles, stopping methane leaks are all “part of infrastructure” and job creation -- Read more on ScientificAme. 2021-04-08 18:08:49
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Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic In March 2020, Ruth DeFries finished a manuscript more than five years in the making. It turned out to be both prescient and prophetic. In this docume. 2021-04-08 17:02:56
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Data Show Shifting Colors of U.S. Rivers Satellites reveal large-scale changes in rivers’ hues -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-08 16:04:44
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Slovakia Offers a Lesson in How Rapid Testing Can Fight COVID One of the country’s top epidemiologists explains how population-wide use of rapid antigen tests—in combination with other measures—. 2021-04-08 12:50:56
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Our Brain Typically Overlooks This Brilliant Problem-Solving Strategy People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones -- Read more on ScientificAme. 2021-04-08 00:30:27
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Global Vaccine Equity Is Much More Important Than 'Vaccine Passports' We need to suppress the level of SARS-CoV-2 in as many humans as possible as quickly as possible -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-07 22:07:23
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The Pandemic Doesn't Mean We Have to Choose between Physical and Mental Health For much of the past year, many people have felt that they were being forced to pick one or the other -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-07 21:06:29
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Our Brains Typically Overlook This Brilliant Problem-Solving Strategy People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones -- Read more on ScientificAme. 2021-04-07 20:33:55
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Is the Standard Model of Physics Now Broken? The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon's magnetic moment has become slightly stronger . 2021-04-07 19:08:49
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Big Physics News: The Muon g-2 Experiment, Explained Particles called muons are behaving weirdly and it could mean a huge discovery -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-07 18:11:45
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Long-Awaited Muon Measurement Boosts Evidence for New Physics Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces -- Read more o. 2021-04-07 17:04:11
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At Last, Some Help for Meth Addiction Studies show that a behavioral treatment works well and that two medications may also be useful -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-07 15:04:18
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The James Webb Space Telescope's First Year of Extraordinary Science Has Been Revealed From more than 1,000 proposals, the scientists that hoped to perform the observatory’s historic first studies now know their fate -- Read mor. 2021-04-07 12:49:43
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The Deadly Lung Disease You've Probably Never Heard Of Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year -- Read more on Scient. 2021-04-07 12:23:17
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Pressure Builds on Congress to Help People Afford Pricey Flood Insurance Premiums will rise in October, but 51 percent of homeowners in high risk areas are low income -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-06 19:31:30
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Vermont to Give Minority Residents Priority for COVID Vaccines But some health experts say people of color still need improved access to vaccination sites, along with more information -- Read more on Scientific. 2021-04-06 19:05:58
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The Myth of Stephen Hawking He was an important physicist, but the press and the public saw him as a prophet—and he didn’t go out of his way to discourage them -- . 2021-04-06 16:05:30
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Forgotten Memories of Traumatic Events Get Some Backing from Brain-Imaging Studies A new wave of research seeks neurological signatures for a type of amnesia -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-06 12:48:04
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What's Next in the Search for COVID's Origins A World Health Organization report makes a reasonable start, scientists say, but there are many questions yet to be answered -- Read more on Scient. 2021-04-05 19:27:38
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Seagrass Forests Counteract Ocean Acidification More of the coastal vegetation could lessen stress on corals and shellfish -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-05 19:04:15
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NASA's Ingenuity Mars Helicopter Touches Down, Prepares for Flight Now on the surface, the interplanetary aircraft could soar as early as next week -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-05 18:04:02
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Boston's Pigeons Coo, 'Wicked'; New York's Birds Coo, 'Fuhgeddaboudit' The two cities’ rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-05 17:57:49
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What's Next in the Search for COVID's Origins A World Health Organization report makes a reasonable start, scientists say, but there are many questions yet to be answered -- Read more on Scient. 2021-04-05 17:37:49
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Boston's Pigeons Coo 'Wicked,' New York's 'Fuhgeddaboudit' The two city’s rock doves are genetically distinct, research shows. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-05 17:04:38
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We Must Enhance--but also Decolonize--America's Global Health Diplomacy The U.S. can rebuild its role in the global health landscape on the basis of equitable policies rather than exploitative ones -- Read more on Scien. 2021-04-05 16:35:29
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We Must Enhance--but also Decolonialize--America's Global Health Diplomacy The U.S. can rebuild its role in the global health landscape on the basis of equitable policies rather than exploitative ones -- Read more on Scien. 2021-04-05 16:03:21
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It's Much More Likely the Coronavirus Came from Wildlife, Not a Lab Former CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes in a lab leak—but offers no evidence. The odds are against his notion -- Read more on Sc. 2021-04-05 15:31:31
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How to Debunk Misinformation about COVID, Vaccines and Masks We each have more power to be a science communicator than we realize -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-05 15:01:01
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Killer Leaves Emerge from Plant-Butterfly Arms Race Closely related plants evolved to sacrifice patches of their own leaves, destroying specific caterpillar eggs -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co. 2021-04-05 12:49:54
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When Did Life First Emerge in the Universe? We don’t know, but we could try to find out by searching for it on planets orbiting the very oldest stars -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.. 2021-04-04 16:03:34
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The Deadly Lung Disease You've Probably Never Heard Of Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year -- Read more on Scient. 2021-04-03 16:03:00
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Why People Won't Rethink Holiday Plans during a Pandemic One reason: we’re deeply attached to familiar rituals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-03 15:34:29
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Chocolate's Secret Ingredient is Fermenting Microbes Underneath the shiny wrapper, a chocolate bunny is a fermented food -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-03 15:08:26
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Rapid COVID Tests Are Coming to Stores Near You Companies backed by millions in public and private cash are racing to bring the tests to market -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-02 20:03:36
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It's Much More Likely the Coronavirus Came from Wildlife, Not a Lab Former CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes in a lab leak—but offers no evidence. The odds are against his notion -- Read more on Sc. 2021-04-02 20:03:36
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Greenland's Lakes Are Vanishing During Winter as Well as Summer Special satellite radar reveals the unexpected drainage through the porous Greenland ice sheet -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-02 18:34:24
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National Park Nature Walks, Episode 3: Where Lewis and Clark Trod Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist . 2021-04-02 14:11:15
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The Asteroid That Killed the Dinosaurs Created the Amazon Rain Forest Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant comm. 2021-04-01 22:19:07
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Biden's Infrastructure Plan Would Make Electricity Carbon-free by 2035 A clean energy standard for power plants is the linchpin, although details are thin -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-01 19:08:05
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Ingenuity's 'Wright Stuff': A Piece of the Wright Flyer Will Soar on Mars The first powered atmospheric flight on another planet will honor its roots with a payload drawn from the dawn of aviation itself -- Read more on S. 2021-04-01 17:59:00
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We Learned the Wrong Lessons from the Tuskegee 'Experiment' It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccin. 2021-04-01 16:19:35
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The Best Medicine Doesn't Always Come in a Bottle A program called Wheels of Change pays unsheltered people to pick up trash or otherwise help clean up their community—and it can turn their live. 2021-04-01 16:02:04
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If You Don't Have COVID Vaccine Side Effects, Are You Still Protected? Reactions reflect unique features of an individual’s immune system, not the strength of a response -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-04-01 14:03:49
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We Learned the Wrong Lessons from the Tuskegee "Experiment" It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccin. 2021-03-31 21:04:53
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What Is Wall Street's Role in Climate? A widening group of firms is trying to determine how best to measure “financed emissions” -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-31 20:35:06
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WHO Report on COVID Pandemic Origins Zeroes In on Animal Markets, Not Labs Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-03-31 20:15:36
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Home Advantage Doesn't Require Crowds, COVID Pro Soccer Matches Show An assessment of games before and during the pandemic suggests that teams play better on their own turf even without crowd support -- Read more on . 2021-03-31 20:04:45
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Long-Awaited Muon Physics Experiment Nears Moment of Truth A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles, and upend fundamental physics -- Read more on Scientific. 2021-03-31 17:08:35
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Save the Butterflies, but Not to Save Our Food Supply These insects are lovely, but despite what many think, they aren't significant contributors to pollinating agriculturally important plants -- Read . 2021-03-31 16:05:32
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The Race to Find Alien Moons Astronomers are hunting for the first moon around a planet beyond our solar system -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-31 15:01:51
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The Military's Role in Oceanography, Deadly Pharmaceutical Negligence, and Other New Science Books Book recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-31 15:01:51
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Imperiled Freshwater Turtles Are Eating Plastics--Science Is Just Revealing the Threat We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and r. 2021-03-31 14:01:41
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Your Immune System Evolves To Fight Coronavirus Variants Antibodies can change to counter new forms of the shape-shifting virus, research hints -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-31 12:54:01
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Iconic Cherry Blossoms Are Blooming Earlier than Ever in Washington, D.C. And in Japan, this year’s arrival was the earliest in 1,200 years -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-30 20:35:53
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America's Maps Are Full of Racial Slurs--and That Needs to Change Place names in the U.S. betray a disturbing legacy of white supremacy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-30 20:01:19
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WHO Report into COVID Pandemic Origins Zeroes in on Animal Markets, Not Labs Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-03-30 19:33:16
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SpaceX Launches Starship SN11 Rocket Prototype, but Misses Landing After a flawless launch, the test ended when the vehicle crashed during its landing attempt -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-30 18:37:30
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Microaggressions: Death by a Thousand Cuts The everyday slights, insults and offensive behaviors that people of marginalized groups experience in daily interactions cause real psychological har. 2021-03-30 17:33:47
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First Openly Transgender Top U.S. Official is Set to Tackle Inequity Biden health official Rachel Levine has a strong track record of fighting for social justice in health care, researchers say -- Read more on Scient. 2021-03-30 16:04:12
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When Will Kids Get COVID Vaccines? Pharmaceutical companies are starting clinical trials in young children and adolescents but they must balance speed and safety -- Read more on Scie. 2021-03-30 12:54:06
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Scandal Over COVID Vaccine Trial at Peruvian Universities Prompts Outrage Researchers gave shots to politicians and family members, violating trial regulations — and damaging public trust -- Read more on ScientificA. 2021-03-29 22:35:42
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A City in Brazil's Amazon Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, r. 2021-03-29 20:53:03
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A City in Brazil's Rain Forest Is a Stark Warning about COVID to the Rest of the World Manaus and cities like it will continue to generate dangerous viral variants if vaccination campaigns are not expanded to broadly reach all nations, r. 2021-03-29 20:34:47
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Female Botanist Published the First Ever Photo Book Nineteenth century researcher Anna Atkins collected specimens of algae and imaged them using the then cutting-edge blueprinting process -- Read mor. 2021-03-29 20:08:41
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To Achieve Mental Health Equity, Dismantle Social Injustice Substance use disorders and other problems cannot be addressed from a position of willful ignorance about our society’s inequalities -- Read . 2021-03-29 19:07:14
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National Carbon Tax Upheld by Canada's Supreme Court The tax, now equivalent to $24 in U.S. dollars, will rise to $135 by 2030 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-29 18:42:00
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Some Deep Sea Bacteria Are So Strange, Our Immune Sensors Miss Them These microbes are redefining our understanding of how bodies recognize potential pathogens -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-29 17:08:07
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Vaccine Could Save Critical Tiger Population Canine distemper threatens a key group of Amur tigers, but an unconventional vaccination program could help -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-29 12:57:55
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The Antiscience Movement Is Escalating, Going Global and Killing Thousands Rejection of mainstream science and medicine has become a key feature of the political right in the United States and, increasingly, around the world . 2021-03-29 12:09:14
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Guardians of the Microbial Galaxy Culture collections of bacteria play an unheralded but crucial role in science -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-28 16:06:46
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Data and Technology Can Help Us Make Progress on COVID Inequities The pandemic gives an opportunity to turn the tide for our nation’s most vulnerable communities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-27 15:01:43
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Solar Geoengineering Should be Investigated, Scientists Say Recommendation from the National Academies stirs controversy over consequences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-26 19:39:09
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 3: Vaccine Inequality, plus Your Body the Variant Fighter Today we bring you the second episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior. 2021-03-26 18:37:23
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Loneliness Is a Public Health Problem: This Low-Tech Intervention Can Help Phone calls may be integral to connecting with people who are lonely and isolated -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-26 17:05:51
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Math Can Help Build a Global Digital Community During the pandemic, the National Museum of Mathematics found new ways to build human connections -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-26 16:03:11
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People Gave Up on Flu Pandemic Measures a Century Ago When They Tired of Them--and Paid a Price A now familiar twenty-first century scenario of circumventing public-health strictures played out as well at the beginning of the twentieth century . 2021-03-26 14:08:59
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National Park Nature Walks, Episode 2: Sequoia Heights Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist . 2021-03-26 13:11:10
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This Mars-Studying Scientist May Be the First Woman to Walk on the Moon Jessica Watkins is excited for humans to get to work on the lunar surface -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-26 11:51:51
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President Biden Should Push for the Human Exploration of Mars Robotic rovers like Perseverance are great, but they can’t answer the most fundamental questions about the Red Planet -- Read more on Scienti. 2021-03-25 20:04:24
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Dead Power Grid Revived with Solar and Wind, Not Diesel An unexpected outage in Colorado allowed engineers to test whether renewable energy and batteries can quickly restart an electric grid -- Read more. 2021-03-25 18:08:38
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Hurricane Names from Greek Alphabet Are Dropped Sticking with human names will lessen confusion and distraction -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-25 16:10:10
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Unexplained Results Intrigue Physicists at World's Largest Particle Collider Muons and electrons might not experience the same fundamental interactions, contrary to Standard Model predictions -- Read more on ScientificAmeric. 2021-03-25 16:03:43
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In a Pipe Repair Worker's Death, Questions of Safety Still Swirl A wrongful-death suit tied to cured-in-place piping is resolved, but critics say studies justify more oversight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.. 2021-03-25 13:06:38
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Hidden Toll of COVID in Africa Threatens Global Pandemic Progress Undercounting or ignoring cases of the disease on the continent could lead to new variants that might derail efforts to end the pandemic -- Read mo. 2021-03-25 11:52:44
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The Coronavirus Variants Don't Seem to Be Highly Variable So Far SARS-CoV-2 may be settling into a limited set of mutations -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-24 19:02:50
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Is Estrogen Deficiency Really a Thing? The catch-all term plays into a cultural notion that estrogen is what makes a woman a woman -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-24 19:02:50
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Magnetic Field around a Black Hole Mapped for the First Time Images from the Event Horizon Telescope reveal new details of how supermassive black holes produce huge jets of matter and energy -- Read more on S. 2021-03-24 18:04:55
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Lightning Rises Sharply in the Arctic Warmer temperatures and higher humidity may be key factors -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-24 17:04:10
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Hunger Strikers Seeking Environmental Justice Win Air-Pollution Delay A hunger strike in Chicago and concerns raised by city and state politicians has slowed the planned move of a metal scrapper to a working-class, predo. 2021-03-24 15:41:41
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The Biggest Barriers to COVID Vaccination for Black and Latinx People Differences in life expectancy, car ownership and language may contribute to the racial and ethnic disparities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-03-24 15:19:37
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Using Dragonflies as Contamination Detectors By collecting the larvae of the fast flyers, researchers have turned the insects into “biosentinels” that can track mercury pollution acro. 2021-03-24 13:10:07
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The Biggest Barriers to COVID Vaccination for Black and Latinx People Differences in life expectancy, car ownership and language may contribute to the racial and ethnic disparities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-03-24 11:48:31
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Mississippi River Rescue Plan Called Too Big to Fail Controversy surrounds the plan to cut the river’s massive levee in an attempt to save disappearing wetlands -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-03-23 19:33:35
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The Search for a Cause of Transness Is Misguided It can be well-intentioned, but it’s a dangerous path that leaves little room for a real understanding of gender and gender identity -- Read . 2021-03-23 19:13:23
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Will Trackless Trams Gain Traction in the U.S.? A hybrid form of transportation could be an alternative to buses or light rails -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-23 14:13:15
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Taking Action Can Cure Your Climate Grief Personal changes can empower people to reduce emissions and also widen public support for bold carbon policies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-03-23 11:49:16
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How to Photograph a (Possible) Alien Artifact We don’t know if the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua was natural or artificial—but a new telescope coming online in a few years could . 2021-03-22 19:00:58
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Noisy Cicadas Are Emerging Earlier More and more broods are crawling out of the ground sooner than expected -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-22 17:08:44
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Prosecuting Asian American Scientists for Espionage Is a Shortsighted Strategy Overeager indictments stifle international collaboration, cause a drain of intellectual capital and violate citizens’ civil rights -- Read mo. 2021-03-22 15:02:26
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Pilot Whales Show Possible Orca-Mimicking Repertoire Southern long-finned pilot whales’ calls could help them outsmart an apex predator -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-22 14:08:20
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A Tsunami Likely Hurled Huge Rocks onto a Tiny Island A Caribbean island’s giant rocks were thought to be deposited by enormous waves -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-22 11:53:58
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The Unbearable Whiteness of Climate Anxiety Is it really just code for white people wishing to hold onto their way of life or get “back to normal?" -- Read more on ScientificAmeric. 2021-03-21 15:02:59
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We Need Social Science, Not Just Medical Science, to Beat the Pandemic Human behavior and social inequity are huge confounding factors -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-20 15:04:27
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Was the Interstellar Object 'Oumuamua a Nitrogen Iceberg? If so, as has recently been suggested, there are likely many more of them moving between star systems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-19 20:58:18
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NASA Moon Rocket Passes Critical Engine Test The Space Launch System could launch on an inaugural lunar mission later this year -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-19 16:39:06
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Charles Blow Tells You How to Actually Fight Racism The New York Times columnist discusses police brutality, racial disparities of the pandemic and diversifying the workplace -- Read more . 2021-03-19 16:13:51
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I'm Agonizing over My Naive Realism The philosophical position that the world has an objective, physical existence may be dubious, but we need it to address our very real problems -- . 2021-03-19 15:04:07
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National Parks Nature Walk, Episode 1: Rocky Mountains Today we launch a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, bring. 2021-03-19 13:14:00
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Ultracold Quantum Collisions Have Been Achieved in Space for the First Time Creating Bose-Einstein condensates—and crashing them together—in microgravity could lead to physics breakthroughs, better spacecraft navig. 2021-03-19 11:57:57
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Seismic Ripples Reveal Size of Mars's Core Mars becomes the first inner planet after Earth to have its core measured -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-18 16:55:01
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What Florence Nightingale Can Teach Us about Architecture and Health The 19th-century nurse and public health researcher understood the importance of light in fighting and preventing disease -- Read more on Scientifi. 2021-03-18 14:08:48
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Smartphones Can Hear the Shape of Your Door Keys Can you pick a lock with just a smartphone? New research shows that it is possible. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-18 13:02:11
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Scientists Grew Tiny Tear Glands in a Dish--Then Made Them Cry Organoids made of tear-producing cells offer chances to study, and possibly treat, eye disorders -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-18 12:39:56
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Perseverance Rover Settles in During First Month on Mars With initial operations going smoothly, the rover could soon attempt to launch its pioneering helicopter, Ingenuity -- Read more on ScientificAmeri. 2021-03-18 12:04:03
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Water on Mars May Be Trapped in the Planet's Crust, Not Lost to Space Understanding the fate of Mars’s moisture could unlock deep secrets of the planet’s past habitability -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-03-18 11:46:32
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An IBM AI Debates Humans--but It's Not Yet the Deep Blue of Oratory The give-and-take of formal arguments is still outside of a machine’s “comfort zone”—at least for now -- Read more on Scien. 2021-03-17 21:26:24
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Why Does DNA Spontaneously Mutate? Quantum Physics Might Explain A phenomenon called proton tunneling could account for point mutations in strands of genetic material -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-17 20:25:37
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AI Can Now Debate with Humans and Sometimes Convince Them, Too Today on the Science Talk podcast, Noam Slonim of IBM Research speaks to Scientific American about an impressive feat of computer engineering: an. 2021-03-17 19:03:59
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Oceans May Emit More Ozone-depleting Gases Scientists warn of ultraviolet radiation and cancer risk -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-17 18:34:37
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Most People Don't Actively Seek to Share Fake News New research shows that subtly nudging people to think about accuracy increases the quality of the news they share -- Read more on ScientificAmeric. 2021-03-17 17:04:11
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Human Genetics Needs an Antiracism Plan The field began in part to support white supremacy—and it hasn’t fully shaken off that shameful heritage -- Read more on Scientif. 2021-03-17 16:09:29
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Scarcity of COVID Shots Might Boost Demand among the Vaccine-Hesitant Willingness is rising, even among skeptical groups, at a time when there are still not enough doses to go around -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-03-17 11:57:05
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How 'Good' Social Movements Can Triumph over 'Bad' Ones Social scientists have identified factors shaping the likelihood that emancipatory social movements will succeed in bringing tangible change -- Rea. 2021-03-16 19:05:04
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Reproductive Problems in Both Men and Women Are Rising at an Alarming Rate A likely culprit is hormone-disrupting chemicals -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-16 17:19:31
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Eight States Are Seeding Clouds to Overcome Megadrought But there is little evidence to show that the process is increasing precipitation -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-16 17:13:42
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Podcast Feed Drop: Introducing Powered By Audio [Sponsored] This is a podcast about sound. Host Randi Zuckerberg discovers the stories behind the sounds we hear everyday… sounds that inform, entertain, e. 2021-03-16 16:24:49
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The Mathematics of How Connections Become Global Percolation theory illuminates the behavior of many kinds of networks, from cell-phone connections to disease transmission -- Read more on Scientif. 2021-03-16 14:33:43
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How to Be an Effective Science Communicator Telescopes on the moon, the mathematics of connections, new hope for dark matter, and realistic mythical beings -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.. 2021-03-16 14:05:02
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Chimpanzees Show Altruism While Gathering Around the Juice Fountain New research tries to tease out whether our closest animal relatives can be selfless -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-16 13:36:44
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COVID Antibody Treatments Show Promise for Preventing Severe Disease Uptake by patients and physicians has been low in the U.S., even though some therapies have been authorized for months -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-03-16 13:08:44
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Future Astronauts Could Phone Home with Lasers Advances in laser-receiver technology could deliver high-quality, reliable communications for future space exploration, such as sending humans to Mars. 2021-03-16 11:49:31
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COVID Cases Plummet Among Nursing Home Staffers Despite Vaccine Hesitancy The decline suggests the vaccine is having an effect even though workers have been slower to take it than residents -- Read more on ScientificAmeri. 2021-03-15 20:01:25
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Is Daylight Saving Time Good or Bad for You? Research shows that the benefits may outweigh the drawbacks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-15 19:53:03
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Biden's Big Science Challenge: Increasing Public Trust Local engagement, not top-down technocracy, is the way to build acceptance of STEM policy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-15 19:03:18
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FEMA Says It Will Make Disaster Response More Equitable The Federal Emergency Management Agency acknowledges that recovery programs have unfairly burdened certain populations -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-03-15 18:33:56
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How Quantum Computing Could Remake Chemistry It will bring molecular modeling to a new level of accuracy, reducing researchers’ reliance on serendipidity -- Read more on ScientificAmeric. 2021-03-15 15:06:51
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How Starting Brush Fires Could Save Africa's Disappearing Lions Strategic fire management could cut emissions and earn tradable carbon credits, generating funds to save the big cats and benefit Indigenous people . 2021-03-15 11:52:18
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How We Got More Than 10,000 Students from 120 Countries to Embrace the Joy of Coding Stanford is offering its popular intro computer science course for free—and you can help teach it -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.co. 2021-03-14 17:03:47
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How Dirt Could Help Save the Planet Farming practices that retain carbon in the soil, or return it there, would limit both erosion and climate change -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-03-14 15:08:07
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Sunlight Changes Unequally All Year Long Some days we gain one minute; some days we gain three -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-14 14:08:13
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Modern Alchemists Turn Airborne CO2 into Diamonds Each carat removes 20 tons of greenhouse gas from the sky, entrepreneurs say -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-12 19:36:33
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CDC's 'Huge Mistake': Did Misguided Mask Advice Drive Up COVID Death Toll for Health Workers? Until a month ago, the agency advised that a surgical mask was sufficient unless workers were performing “aerosol-generating procedures” . 2021-03-12 17:55:05
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Science Needs to Face Up to Its Racist History Elevating science’s role in policymaking is important; so is reckoning with how science has been used to harm marginalized communities -- Rea. 2021-03-12 17:08:34
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What Protecting 30 Percent of the Planet Really Means To succeed, supporters of an ambitious new conservation target must press national governments to recognize the land rights of Indigenous people --. 2021-03-12 15:04:41
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Ketchup Is Not Just a Condiment: It Is Also a Non-Newtonian Fluid Everybody’s favorite red sauce may be thin or thick, depending on how it is handled -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-12 12:47:57
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COVID, Quickly, Episode 2: Lessons From a Pandemic Year Today we bring you the second episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior. 2021-03-12 00:06:57
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We Must Extend Postpartum Medicaid Coverage And that must go hand in hand with better access to quality care, redress of systemic barriers to vital health, and social services and supports --. 2021-03-11 22:08:32
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Baby Talk and Lemur Chatter--but Not Birdsong--Help an Infant's Brain Develop Researchers probe the outer boundaries of what types of sounds human infants tune in to for building cognition -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-03-11 20:03:50
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A Global Computer Chip Shortage Shows Danger of U.S. Production Trends A small and shrinking number of the world’s computer chips are made in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-11 19:42:30
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America's Biggest Banks Promise to Fight Climate Change But critics say the commitments are hazy on details -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-11 18:51:57
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Perseverance Mars Rover Records Sound of Rock-Zapping Laser NASA’s latest robotic explorer is capturing the snaps, crackles and pops of sizzling stones on the Red Planet -- Read more on ScientificAmeri. 2021-03-11 18:35:06
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Mississippi Mud Might Stop Louisiana from Disappearing Engineers will tap river sediment to try to create wetlands faster than they are disappearing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-11 18:05:13
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NASA Will Map Every Living Thing on the International Space Station Surveying the billions of tiny microbial astronauts that dwell within the orbital laboratory could help us prepare for human voyages to Mars -- Rea. 2021-03-11 17:33:27
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A Letter to the Generation in Power We have put our lives on hold for you. Will you face climate change for us? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-11 17:11:43
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New Technologies Could Protect Against Arsenic Toxicity in Water Filters in household faucets and genetic technology could help reduce this public health threat, biologist Rebecca Fry says -- Read more on Scienti. 2021-03-11 16:38:56
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The COVID-19 Postscript A surprising number of COVID-recovered patients deal with an array of troublesome symptoms, well after the disease is gone -- Read more on Scientif. 2021-03-11 15:37:04
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How the U.S. Pandemic Response Went Wrong--and What Went Right--During a Year of COVID On the anniversary of this global disaster, a look back at some of the biggest mistakes, surprising successes, and lingering questions -- Read more. 2021-03-11 12:48:12
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So, What Can People Actually Do after Being Vaccinated? It’s complicated; not even the experts agree -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-10 21:01:25
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Beatrice Finkelstein, the Woman Who Fed the Astronauts Known fondly as the proprietor of “Bea’s Diner,” the nutritionist who created menus for our first spacefarers deserves to be better . 2021-03-10 20:08:29
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In the Path of Halley's Comet, Humanity Might Find Its Way Forward The work of decoding the cosmic traveler has surprising relevance right now -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-10 19:28:09
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Direct Air Capture of CO2 Is Suddenly A Carbon Offset Option Canada’s largest company is funding machines that suck CO2 from the atmosphere to offset its own emissions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-03-10 18:38:16
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Physicists Measure the Gravitational Force between the Smallest Masses Yet A laboratory experiment captured the pull between two minuscule gold spheres, paving the way for experiments that probe the quantum nature of gravity . 2021-03-10 17:07:02
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What the CDC Guidelines for Vaccinated People Mean Infectious disease specialist Nahid Bhadelia discusses new recommendations on how vaccinated people can gather with one another and small groups of un. 2021-03-10 16:03:53
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In the Path of Halley's Comet, Humanity Might Find Its Way Forward The work of decoding the cosmic traveler has surprising relevance right now -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-10 14:05:45
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An Octopus Could Be the Next Model Organism Big-brained cephalopods could shine light on the evolution and neurobiology of intelligence, complexity, and more—and inspire medical and techno. 2021-03-10 12:47:53
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Quantum Mechanics, the Chinese Room Experiment and the Limits of Understanding All of us, even physicists, often process information without really knowing what we’re doing -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-09 20:07:11
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Big U.S. Banks Will Curb Lending to Fossil Fuel Companies But critics say the commitments are hazy on details -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-09 19:03:44
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All Medical Students Should Be Vaccinated A patchwork of policies from state to state has led to confusion and, sometimes, resentment -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-09 17:03:27
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Nuclear Power Looks to Regain Its Footing 10 Years after Fukushima Economics may play a stronger role than fear in steering nuclear power toward a slow decline -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-09 16:47:35
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This Sea Slug Can Chop Off its Head and Grow an Entire New Body, Twice It is one of the “most extreme” examples of regeneration ever seen -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-09 16:38:43
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That Mouse in Your House—It's Smarter, Thanks to You Scientists studied three varieties of house mice, and found those that had lived alongside humans the longest were also the craftiest at solving food . 2021-03-09 14:03:38
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Meet the Unsung Heroes behind Humanity's Improbable Journey to an Alien Ocean The author of a new book reveals the hidden human history of NASA’s in-development Europa Clipper mission -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.. 2021-03-09 12:47:28
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Hummingbirds' Iridescent Feathers Are Still a Bit of a Mystery Scientists still don’t know the full purpose of this changeable biological trait -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-08 21:02:38
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Utilities Are Installing Big Batteries at a Record Pace Blackouts due to wildfires and wild weather are prompting action -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-08 20:26:18
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Amanda Gorman, Poet Laureate and Gesturer Laureate She shows us that gestures are not mere hand-waving; they can convey images that either magnify speech or even add new ideas not found in the spoken w. 2021-03-08 20:08:39
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Biden Should Push States and Cities to Use Stimulus Money for Gun Violence Prevention As we build back from one public health crisis, we must take steps to address another -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-08 19:31:11
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We Need to Rename ADHD Calling it a disorder falsely implies we know of a cause located in the brains of people diagnosed with ADHD—and we don't -- Read more on Sci. 2021-03-08 17:08:55
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Prehistoric Plankton Became Predators to Survive a Mass Extinction When the sun disappeared, tiny coccoliths turned to hunting -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-08 14:01:26
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Neandertals Probably Perceived Speech Quite Well Could they speak, too? Did they proposition modern humans in an interspecies creole language? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-08 12:48:12
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Biden: Push States and Cities to Use Stimulus Money for Gun Violence Prevention As we build back from one public health crisis, we must take steps to address another -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-07 18:04:13
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Hearing about the Big Bang for the First Time A jaded old science writer rediscovers the thrill of science by teaching undergraduates -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-07 16:01:09
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In Obesity Research, Fatphobia Is Always the X Factor Contrary to what you’ve undoubtedly been told, you can be fat and fit at the same time -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-06 16:02:20
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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: March 2021 Lethal gas fights crime, 1921; baby energy powers cleaning, 1871 -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-06 15:01:50
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Trump's Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health But things were on the decline long before he took office -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-06 01:38:43
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Surprise: Societal Scholars Could Drive Climate Policy Biden is appointing “totally different kinds of people” to solve climate change -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-05 20:31:25
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Trump's Policy Failures Have Exacted a Heavy Toll on Public Health But things were on the decline long before he took office -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-05 17:03:17
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The Famed Painting The Scream Holds a Hidden Message Open speculation about his mental health plagued the artist Edvard Munch. In his most famous work, he left a biting commentary -- Read more on Scie. 2021-03-05 12:51:23
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100-Million-Year-Old Seafloor Sediment Bacteria Have Been Resuscitated The evidence mounts that bacteria can be effectively immortal -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-04 21:03:40
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Huge Atmospheric Rivers Could Quicken Antarctic Ice Melt Some of the big storms actually bring more snow, but others cause major melting -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-04 17:07:48
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Kangaroos With Puppy Dog Eyes When faced with an impossible task, new research shows that the marsupials look to humans for help -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-04 16:01:45
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Green Alternative to Border Wall Might Have Saved Texas A U.S.-Mexico corridor of renewable energy and water could have prevented widespread emergencies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-04 14:07:54
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AI System Can Sniff Out Disease as Well as Dogs Do Researchers are training algorithms to emulate trained dogs’ ability to detect cancer and other diseases, perhaps including COVID-19 -- Read . 2021-03-04 12:48:53
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Stunning Astronomy Photographs Look like They're Shot from Space Astrophotographer Miguel Claro’s portraits capture wonders of the universe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-04 00:04:32
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This Is the Fastest Random-Number Generator Ever Built A laser generates quantum randomness at a rate of 250 trillion bits per second, and could lead to devices small enough to fit on a single chip -- R. 2021-03-03 19:04:43
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Energy Companies Reluctantly Embrace Carbon Pricing Established prices would be easier to meet than a patchwork of regulations and mandates -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-03 18:38:52
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Stunning Astronomy Photos Look Like They're Shot from Space Astrophotographer Miguel Claro’s portraits capture wonders of the universe -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-03 18:04:44
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An Urgent Call for a New Relationship with Nature “Forests and Livelihoods: Sustaining People and the Planet” is the theme of this year's World Wildlife Day -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-03-03 17:32:10
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Science and Society Are Failing Children in the COVID Era The school reopening debate points toward a broader range of problems facing the young -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-03 16:03:57
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Teens And Other Volunteers Help Seniors Find Scarce COVID Shots Signup systems for vaccines are horribly confusing, so people across the U.S. set up Facebook pages and phone lines with hands-on help -- Read more. 2021-03-03 12:52:12
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It's a Myth That Asian-Americans Are Doing Well in the Pandemic Statistics suggest they are—but numbers often don’t include the most vulnerable with limited English -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-03-02 20:01:08
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Biden Must Take Immediate Action to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War The continuing proliferation of atomic weapons threatens the safety of billions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-02 17:03:03
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Major Physics Society Will Not Meet in Cities with Racist Policing Records The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies -- Read more on ScientificAme. 2021-03-02 16:08:44
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The U.S. Needs Tolerance more than Unity Tolerance allows us to live in harmony despite deep-seated differences -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-02 14:07:07
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Struggling Koalas Get Help from a Bold Breeding Program Australia’s bushfires devastated koala populations, but a first-ever mix of capture and genetics could aid a marsupial comeback -- Read more . 2021-03-02 12:47:45
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Cost of Carbon Pollution Pegged at $51 a Ton The Biden Administration raised the benchmark, and may do it again within a year -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-01 22:30:48
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New Johnson & Johnson Shot Prevents Severe COVID As Well As Existing Vaccines Do, Experts Say Trials of all three vaccines came up with different efficacy numbers, but all offer crucial protection in this health emergency -- Read more on Sci. 2021-03-01 22:02:37
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An Ancient Proto-City Reveals the Origin of Home The 9,000-year-old settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey shows how humans began putting down roots -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-03-01 21:31:24
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People Literally Don't Know When to Shut Up--or Keep Talking, Science Confirms We are really bad at navigating a key transition point during one of the most basic social interactions -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-01 21:04:48
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To Qualify as 'Scientific,' Evidence Has to Be Reproducible We can never be sure if the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua, for example, was artificial—but we could be ready to answer that question for a. 2021-03-01 20:09:28
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Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-03-01 19:42:51
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NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope The successor to the Hubble honors a man who took part in the effort to purge LGBT people from the federal workforce -- Read more on ScientificAmer. 2021-03-01 16:03:49
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The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language Deaf people are adapting signs to accommodate the limitations of video communication while working from home -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-03-01 15:56:22
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America's Immigration System Is a COVID Superspreader ICE detention centers have some of the worst outbreaks in the country, endangering immigrants, staff and local communities -- Read more on Scientif. 2021-03-01 15:56:22
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To Beat COVID, We May Need a Good Shot in the Nose Intranasal vaccines might stop the spread of the coronavirus more effectively than needles in arms -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-03-01 15:06:39
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Killings by Police Declined after Black Lives Matter Protests A study also found body-camera use and community policing increased in places with the most active movements -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-03-01 12:49:24
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Criminal Psychology and the Roots of Violence In 2020, mass shootings and hate crimes reached record highs. On January 6, 2021, a deadly mob stormed the US Capitol. In this eBook, we examine the f. 2021-03-01 06:07:20
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COVID, Quickly Episode 1: Vaccines, Variants and Diabetes Today, we begin a new podcast series: "COVID, Quickly." Every two weeks, Scientific American's senior health editors, Tanya Lewis and Josh F. 2021-02-26 18:04:50
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America's Immigration System Is a COVID Superspreader ICE detention centers have some of the worst outbreaks in the country, endangering migrants, staff and local communities -- Read more on Scientific. 2021-02-26 17:07:47
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The COVID Zoom Boom Is Reshaping Sign Language Deaf people are adapting signs to accommodate the limitations of video communication while working from home -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-02-26 12:52:34
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Expert Opinion Can't Be Trusted If You Consult the Wrong Sort of Expert The failure of the U.S. to respond appropriately to the pandemic could have been predicted if anyone had bothered to ask social scientists -- Read . 2021-02-25 21:39:09
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Machine Learning Pwns Old-School Atari Games You can call it the ‘revenge of the computer scientist.’ An algorithm that made headlines for mastering the notoriously difficult Atari 26. 2021-02-25 21:07:21
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Biden's COVID Plan Is Just a Beginning The public health system needs wide-ranging reform to address weaknesses exposed by the pandemic -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-25 21:07:21
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How COVID Is Changing the Cold and Flu Season Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications. 2021-02-25 20:39:01
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Massive Google-Funded COVID Database Will Track Variants and Immunity Open repository will give free access to more than 160 million data points with details about individual infections -- Read more on ScientificAmeri. 2021-02-25 20:05:49
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How COVID-19 is Changing the Cold and Flu Season Measures meant to tame the coronavirus pandemic are quashing influenza and most other respiratory diseases, which could have wide-ranging implications. 2021-02-25 19:01:30
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How Climate Change May Influence Deadly Avalanches Greater temperature swings and more intense rain and snow storms could alter avalanche dynamics -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-25 16:37:15
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On the Other Side of That Pandemic Wall Top things our brains need to help us get through the coming months -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-25 15:06:57
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Microscopic Wrinkles in Leaves Ward Off Insects Researchers identify a new insect-defense mechanism -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-25 14:06:47
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Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights In 1916, he strapped on his “safety hood” and dragged rescuers to safety, but racism prevented him from being hailed a hero -- Re. 2021-02-25 12:47:53
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Astronomers Just Upsized an Iconic Black Hole Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever discovered, is significantly bigger than previously believed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 21:05:12
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European Forests Have Become More Vulnerable to Insect Outbreaks Climate change may be playing a role as higher heat makes trees less resilient to pests -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 20:35:49
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How to Make 'Immunity Passports' More Ethical Requirements that travelers be vaccinated must be implemented in a humanitarian way -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 18:09:55
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Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 17:33:48
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Finding Yourself, and Your Community, When You Are Black in STEM Antonio Baines is trying to build a more diverse science, one student at a time -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 16:03:52
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Graveyards Are Surprising Hotspots for Biodiversity Even the smallest burial sites could help conserve natural habitats in agricultural landscapes -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-24 14:03:21
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Unraveling the Complex Link Between COVID and Diabetes The pandemic infection seems to trigger diabetes in some patients. Here are five plausible explanations as to why -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-02-24 12:50:49
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Mars Video Reveals Perseverance Rover's Daring Touchdown The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-23 21:03:08
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Mountain Mammals Climb Higher to Beat the Heat In the Rocky Mountains, dozens of small mammal species have shifted to higher elevations over time -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-23 20:31:05
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How to Restore America's Humanity Guaranteeing economic security is crucial; so is sending the message that every one of us matters -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-23 20:02:12
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7 Ways to Reduce Reluctance to Take COVID Vaccines Trusted messengers and repeated reminders can overcome hesitancy, social science shows -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-23 15:08:26
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COVID Variants May Arise in People with Compromised Immune Systems The case history of a U.K. man in his 70s shows how selective “pressures” bring about viral mutations -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-02-23 14:03:51
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A Few Fixes Could Cut Noise Pollution That Hurts Ocean Animals Redesigning ship propellors and installing acoustic “curtains” could lower the volume on anthropogenic noise that disrupts ocean life -. 2021-02-23 12:50:02
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E-Eggs Track Turtle Traffickers Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-02-23 02:03:27
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'March Mammal Madness' Brings Simulated Animal Fights to Huge Audiences The annual science education event describes imaginary encounters to teach ecology -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-22 21:19:25
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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video Last week’s pinpoint touchdown of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater was historic for many reasons, chief among them the epoc. 2021-02-22 20:49:07
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After Blackout, Questions Emerge on Future Greening of Texas's Grid The state simultaneously has the highest-emissions grid in the country and leads the nation in wind power -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-22 19:32:35
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A Vaccination against the Pandemic of Misinformation False beliefs, similar to those seen in Alzheimer’s patients, may result from a lack of science literacy -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-02-22 17:03:21
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Facebook Would Rather Ban News in Australia than Pay for it The tech giant's ban on Australians searching for news on its platform suggests that equitable control of international reporting is very much a . 2021-02-22 16:48:59
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'March Mammal Madness' Brings Simulated Animal Fights to Huge Audiences The annual science education event describes imaginary encounters to teach ecology -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-22 14:04:14
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New Supernova Alert System Promises Early Access to Spectacles in Space Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts -- Read more on ScientificAmerican. 2021-02-22 12:49:14
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Until Recently, People Accepted the 'Fact' of Aliens in the Solar System For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn't considered especially remarkable -- Read more on . 2021-02-21 18:03:18
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Are Dolphins Right-Handed or Left-Handed? Trick question, since dolphins obviously don’t have hands—but studying whether they have “handedness” led to identifying a qui. 2021-02-21 16:01:45
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Australia vs. Facebook The tech giant's ban on Australians searching for news on its platform suggests that equitable control of international reporting is very much a . 2021-02-20 20:00:44
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Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things The popular term “quantum supremacy,” which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, has inescapable racist overtones . 2021-02-20 18:08:18
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The U.S. Needs a Federal Department of Science and Technology Currently, STEM-related policy is administered by a bewildering array of entities, which dilutes its effectiveness -- Read more on ScientificAmeric. 2021-02-20 16:06:42
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U.S. Officially Rejoins Paris Climate Agreement The Biden Administration aims to strengthen the country’s emissions reduction pledge under the pact by Earth Day -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-02-19 20:04:53
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The Coronavirus is Here to Stay--Here's What That Means A Nature survey shows many scientists expect the virus that causes COVID-19 to become endemic, but it could pose less danger over time -- Read more. 2021-02-19 19:07:28
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Even Tiny Phytoplankton Have Microbiomes These algae exchange vital chemicals with bacteria that live around their surface -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-19 18:04:41
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Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation's Power Grids Energy from neighboring states could have helped Texans survive their extreme winter storm -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-19 17:04:38
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How Will the Coronavirus Evolve? If we’re lucky, mutations will make SARS-CoV-2 less lethal, as happened with the 1918 flu—but there’s no guarantee of that -- Rea. 2021-02-19 17:04:38
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Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions What does "95 percent effective" mean? Should you get vaccinated if you have had COVID? Is there a best vaccine? -- Read more on Sc. 2021-02-19 16:14:30
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Massive Power Failure Could Finally Cause Texas to Connect with the Nation's Power Grids Energy from neighboring states could have helped Texans survive their extreme winter storm -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-19 16:08:39
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Experts Answer the Biggest COVID Vaccine Questions Scientific American talked to scientists about everything from what efficacy means, to protection against the new variants -- Read more on Scientif. 2021-02-19 12:51:05
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Perseverance Has Landed! Mars Rover Begins a New Era of Exploration NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet will seek out signs of ancient life, gather samples for return to Earth, and even fly a first-of-its-kin. 2021-02-18 22:02:55
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Biden Channels FDR on STEM Policy The president’s letter to his new science advisor emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a simi. 2021-02-18 21:04:38
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Why the Deep Freeze Caused Texas to Lose Power Issues with natural gas supplies and the grid’s isolation both factored in to the massive outages -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-18 19:49:50
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People Answer Scientists' Queries in Real Time While Dreaming Researchers demonstrate that during REM sleep, people can hear—and respond to—simple questions (What is eight minus six?) -- Read more . 2021-02-18 17:04:37
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Virtual Conferences Aren't as Accessible as You Might Think They have some advantages for people with disabilities—but plenty of problems as well -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-18 16:04:31
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Booster Shots Against Scary COVID Virus Variants Are In the Works Vaccine makers are designing follow-up shots, based on new mutations, to keep the disease at bay -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-18 15:07:04
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Nursing Home Workers Had One of the Deadliest Jobs of 2020 An analysis of incomplete data shows they had a death rate higher than that of loggers, and may have rivaled fishers for most perilous profession -. 2021-02-18 15:07:04
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The First 100 Days on Mars: How NASA's Perseverance Rover Will Begin Its Mission With the space agency’s latest rover set to touch down on February 18, here is the agenda for its initial months -- Read more on ScientificAm. 2021-02-18 14:02:50
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Booster Shots Against Scary COVID Virus Variants Are In the Works Vaccine makers are designing follow-up shots, based on new mutations, to keep the disease at bay -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-18 12:47:32
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COVID Vaccines Are Safe and Effective--What the Research Says As more coronavirus vaccines are rolled out, researchers are learning about the extent and nature of side effects -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-02-17 22:33:46
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Stop Domestic Terrorism Our national leaders must take on racist-driven violence in the U.S. -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 21:33:08
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The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 21:06:00
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Texas Power Outage Underscores Looming Climate Tests Extreme weather is increasingly likely to test electric grids and energy supply systems -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 20:49:36
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What Scientists Have Learned from 100 Years of Bird Banding A rich archive of data has illuminated the secret lives of birds -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 20:04:56
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Dinosaur Discoveries Are Booming Fossils are being found worldwide, and there are plenty more to come -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 18:03:11
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Mammoth Genomes Shatter Record for Oldest DNA Sequences Researchers extracted DNA from fossils that are more than a million years old, illuminating the origins of the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammot. 2021-02-17 18:03:11
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Will Quantum Computers Truly Serve Humanity? Let’s take advantage of this early stage of their development to avoid the mistakes of past technological upheavals -- Read more on Scientifi. 2021-02-17 17:03:39
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How NASA Aims to Achieve Perseverance's High-Stakes Mars Landing The robotic rover’s touchdown is meant to be the most accurate ever attempted on the Red Planet, opening the way for future pinpoint landfalls t. 2021-02-17 16:03:06
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Entitled People Are More Likely To Be Angry at Bad Luck Even when nobody is to blame, some feel they were victimized -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 14:02:41
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Snakes' Flexible, Heat-Sensing Organs Explained Scientists decode how some snakes “see” in the dark -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-17 12:48:34
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The Dark Side of CRISPR Its potential ability to “fix” people at the genetic level is a threat to those who are judged by society to be biologically inferior -. 2021-02-16 20:03:42
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How Biden's Environmental Justice Order Might Work The President ordered 40 percent of the benefits from federal climate action go to disadvantaged communities -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com. 2021-02-16 19:03:34
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The Epic, Absurdly Complex Battle between a Zombie Maker and Its Victim The emerald jewel wasp is a cockroach’s worst nightmare -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-16 18:01:06
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The Shrapnel That Killed the Dinosaurs Science provides knowledge of objects that threaten the Earth, and the means to deflect them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-16 17:07:15
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Social Justice Movements, Exomoons and a Century of Bird Banding What we’re learning about how solar systems and civilizations developed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-16 15:07:33
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Printing a Brain Aneurysm in a Dish Scientists make and treat a 3-D-printed model of a ballooning blood vessel -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-16 12:51:07
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As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy The car-sized rover is the first step in an ambitious effort to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth, but some crucial details remain undecide. 2021-02-15 12:49:47
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Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life Some thoughts triggered by the death of the mathematician John Conway -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-14 16:03:55
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Readers Respond to the October 2020 Issue Letters to the editor from the October 2020 issue of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-14 15:04:54
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How President Biden Can Deliver on His Vaccine Promise to Communities of Color It will require the federal government to use a scientific, data-driven system for identifying those most in need -- Read more on ScientificAmerica. 2021-02-13 16:05:39
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Fractal Shapes, STI Treatment and Prevention, and Other New Science Books Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-13 15:02:31
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Miniature Satellites Reveal Cause of Deadly Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams The disaster draws attention to the controversial hydropower projects in the Himalayas -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-12 22:48:11
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Science Songs: A Spotify Playlist Aerodynamics, androids and fly larvae feature in our curated collection of top indie tunes inspired by science -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.c. 2021-02-12 20:00:58
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When Two Tibetan Glaciers Collapsed, the Whole Landscape Changed The avalanches, linked to climate change, could alter local ecology and increase flood risks -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-12 17:33:32
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The Human Genome and the Making of a Skeptical Biologist Thoughts on scientific ambition and progress, 20 years after the first draft of the genome was completed -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-12 17:06:12
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Brain Cells Blinking in Rhythm May Hold Clues to Alzheimer's Disease Pulses of light and sound helped mice predisposed to the disease. They hope to investigate the potential therapy for humans with neurons created in a . 2021-02-12 16:05:53
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Evolution Could Explain Why Psychotherapy May Work for Depression Persistent rumination may be an attribute that lets us think our way out of despair—a process enhanced through talk therapy -- Read more on S. 2021-02-12 15:03:46
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Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding It is the wood that the rock greats have sworn by—swamp ash, in the form of their Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars—for over 70 y. 2021-02-12 14:06:10
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How to Stop Doomscrolling News and Social Media “Doomscroll Reminder Lady” Karen K. Ho explains how to step away from the screen -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-12 12:46:14
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More Climate Executive Orders Could Be Coming, McCarthy Says The former EPA Administrator says the Biden Administration will also work with Congress to advance climate policies -- Read more on ScientificAmeri. 2021-02-11 21:34:30
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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the First Publication of the Human Genome A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity’s “most wondrous map” -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 21:24:50
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White Chicago Cops Use Force More Often than Black Officers New study of the city's policing also shows differences between male and female cops -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 21:01:30
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Neandertalized 'Mini Brains' Yield Clues to Modern Human Uniqueness Experiments on clusters of cultured cells hint that a gene variant found only in Homo sapiens profoundly changed brain development in our species comp. 2021-02-11 20:19:58
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Whales' Long, Loud Calls Reveal Structure beneath Ocean Floor Sound waves from fin whales can help scientists probe Earth’s crust -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 20:02:11
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Snowflake Structure Still Mystifies Physicists Their final shape depends on an array of temperature, humidity, and wind speed variables -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 19:06:13
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Masks Can Be Detrimental to Babies' Speech and Language Development The good news is that parents can take action to compensate -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 17:07:45
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A Visual Guide to the New Coronavirus Variants The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus seems to be suddenly acquiring mutations at a rapid rate. The most worrying variants, first discovered in South Africa and . 2021-02-11 14:08:42
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Why COVID Vaccines Are Taking So Long to Reach You Bottlenecks in supply chains and difficult appointment-registration systems are slowing distribution -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-11 12:46:45
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China's First Mars Mission, Tianwen-1, Reaches the Red Planet Now in orbit, the spacecraft will attempt a landing later this year -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com . 2021-02-10 21:15:49
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