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With Sea Level Rise, High-tide Flooding Spikes Along U.S. Coasts

American coastal communities will experience high-tide flooding as many as 270 days a year by 2050, according to NOAA projections…

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Living with Scientific Uncertainty – Scientific American

COVID-19 packs its punch largely through uncertainty. If the virus were visible to our eyes, we could have avoided it…

5 years ago

Clearing Opium Fields Hurts Honeybees

Originally published in August 1911 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Some unexpected results are found from the movement against the production of…

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Chinese Spacecraft Poised for First Mars Mission

With a five-meter-wide, 57-meter-tall rocket waiting to blast off from China’s southern island of Hainan, the nation is quietly making…

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Sleep Paralysis and the Monsters Inside Your Mind

Imagine waking up in the middle of the night to an unearthly figure with blood dripping down its fangs. You…

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Methane Is on an Alarming Upward Trend

Cows, oil and gas wells, rice paddies, landfills. These are some of the biggest sources of methane staining the atmosphere…

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The Universe’s Clock Might Have Bigger Ticks Than We Imagine

The smallest conceivable length of time might be no larger than a millionth of a billionth of a billionth of…

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A Robotic Mini-Armada Will Probe the Secrets of Hurricanes

This year, as hurricanes race into the warming coastal waters of the U.S., an array of seagoing robots will be…

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Around the World in (Just) 39 Days

Originally published in January 1898 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “When Jules Verne wrote his fascinating book, ‘Around the World in Eighty…

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‘Tiny Bug Slayer’ Dinosaur Relative Would Fit in the Palm of a Hand

Massive dinosaurs and pterosaurs have a newfound cousin: a palm-size pipsqueak of a reptile, a new fossil reveals. Even the name of…

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