SCIENCE
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Wuhan Lab Sequences Reveal No Close COVID Relatives, Virologist Says
December 6, 2024 3 min read Wuhan Virologist Says Lab Has No Close Relatives to COVID Virus Shi Zhengli, the virologist at…
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Why Gen Z Men Voted for Trump
A few years ago I was hired to help revise a psychology textbook to make it more engaging for Gen…
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Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths
November 29, 2024 5 min read Math and Physics Can’t Prove All Truths Physicists have described a system that requires…
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Your Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their Friends
November 27, 2024 3 min read Your Friends Shape Your Microbiome—and So Do Their Friends Analysis of nearly 2,000 people…
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RFK, Jr., Could Run the Agency That Oversees the CDC, FDA and NIH. Here’s What That Means for Public Health
Rachel Feltman: Happy Monday, listeners! For Scientific American’s Science Quickly, I’m Rachel Feltman. Let’s kick off the week by catching…
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Mathematicians’ Newest Assistants Are Artificially Intelligent
Mathematicians explore ideas by proposing conjectures and proving them with theorems. For centuries, they built these proofs line by careful…
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Famous Star Hasn’t Formed Planets, and We Don’t Know Why
November 19, 2024 5 min read Famous Star Hasn’t Formed Planets, and We Don’t Know Why The nearby star Vega,…
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The Arecibo Message, Earth’s First Interstellar Transmission, Turns 50
A half-century ago humanity sent its first postcard to the stars, carried by a narrow beam of radio waves. It…
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Developing Expertise Improves the Brain’s Ability to Concentrate
November 13, 2024 5 min read The Mathematical Mind Offers Neuroscientists a Master Class in Concentration Expertise bulks up the…
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What Trump Can—And Probably Can’t—Do to Reverse U.S. Climate Policy
November 8, 2024 5 min read What Trump Can—And Probably Can’t—Do to Reverse U.S. Climate Policy The new president-elect can…
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