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Ships Hit Smaller Sea Animals More Often than Researchers Thought

The danger to whales and other large marine mammals from oceangoing vessels’ propellers and bows has long been recognized. And…

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Aliens Could Have a Hundred Eyes

Originally published in November 1854 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Sir David Brewster, who supposes the stars to be inhabited, as being…

5 years ago

Racism in Health Care Isn’t Always Obvious

As physicians from three distinct racial minorities, our lives are defined by an innate tension. On one hand, we experience…

5 years ago

Viral Learning Curve – Scientific American

Drug manufacturers are racing to create a protective measure against coronavirus without destroying the patient’s immune system Credit: KATERYNA KON…

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Hidden Neutrino Particles May Be a Link to the Dark Sector

The physicists who came to our presentation at the 2010 Neutrino conference in Athens, Greece, probably expected us to put…

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Comet NEOWISE Could Be Spectacular: Here’s How to See It

This month a cosmic visitor is gracing the skies. A comet swept past the sun on July 3, and it…

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COVID-19 Is Forcing Us to Rethink Clinical Trials for Cancer Treatments

In 2018, the American Cancer Society released an alarming report noting that 20 percent of clinical trials fail because of…

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Animals Appreciate Recent Traffic Lull

Don’t worry about why the chicken crossed the road—the bigger question is whether it’ll make it at all. Every year,…

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Let’s Defund the Pentagon, Too

Toward the end of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., after agonizing about the Vietnam War in private, began denouncing…

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Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus is Airborne–but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up

In Lidia Morawska’s home city of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, roadside signs broadcast a simple message: ‘Wash hands, save…

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