SCIENCE
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The Best Way to Use Home COVID Tests Right Now
Tanya Lewis: Hi, this is Your Health, Quickly, a Scientific American podcast series! Josh Fischman: We bring you the latest…
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Ailing Peregrine Moon Lander Is on Course to Crash into Earth
January 16, 2024 2 min read Peregrine will likely burn up in Earth’s atmosphere, the moon lander’s builder has said…
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What’s Behind the ‘Arctic Blast’ Plunging into the U.S.?
January 12, 2024 3 min read This week’s cold snap across the U.S. will be one of “the most impressive…
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From Wildfires to Melting Sea Ice, The Warmest Summer on Record Has Had Cascading Effects Across the Arctic
The following essay is reprinted with permission from The Conversation, an online publication covering the latest research. The year 2023…
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How Networked Incitement Fueled the Jan. 6 Capitol Insurrection
The shocking events of Jan. 6, 2021, signaled a major break from the nonviolent rallies that categorized most major protests…
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Adventures of a Bone Hunter
Annie Montague Alexander was an adventurer, an amateur paleontologist and founding benefactor of two venerated museums at the University of…
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How a Parasitic Worm Forces Praying Mantises to Drown Themselves
January 1, 2024 2 min read Thieving worms may manipulate their prey with stolen genes By Darren Incorvaia Horsehair worm…
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Editors’ Picks: Our Favorite Opinions of 2023
December 29, 2023 5 min read As 2023 comes to a close, we look back at a year of poignant…
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Rift over N95 Use Puts Health Workers at Risk Again
Three years after more than 3,600 health workers died of covid-19, occupational safety experts warn that those on the front lines…
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How the Moon Shaped Human History, from Religion to Climate
January 1, 2024 3 min read Lunar influences, parallel universes, taking over a dead relative’s online identity, and more books…
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