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How Universities Can Keep Foreign Governments from Stealing Intellectual Capital

Earlier this year Charles Lieber, then chair of Harvard University's chemistry department and a nanotechnology expert, was arrested and charged…

5 years ago

Warming Could Lower One Barrier to Invasive Fish Reaching Great Lakes

Biologists observing the spread of invasive Asian carp up the Mississippi River Basin had identified two possible barriers—one structural, one…

5 years ago

Animals Use Social Distancing to Avoid Disease

On a shallow reef in the Florida Keys, a young Caribbean spiny lobster returns from a night of foraging for…

5 years ago

Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People

In the 19th century, the most photographed man⁠ in the world wasn’t Walt Whitman or Ulysses S. Grant or even…

5 years ago

Hypnosis Can Cure Lying But not Lack of Ambition

Originally published in February 1900 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Dr. John D. Quackenbos, of Columbia University, has long been engaged in…

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Coronavirus Is Attacking the Navajo ‘because We Have Built the Perfect Human for It to Invade’

As told to Scientific American When a family member dies, we the Diné, whom Spanish conquistadors named the Navajo, send…

5 years ago

Stereotypes Harm Black Lives and Livelihoods, but Research Suggests Ways to Improve Things

The Black Lives Matter protests shaking the world have thankfully brought renewed attention not just to police brutality but to…

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Drones Capture Close Encounters between Great White Sharks and Beachgoers

CHRIS LOWE: I'm out here with my team and we're doing surveys for sharks. So we're using drones to fly…

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Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Since the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the U.S. and state governments issued stay-at-home orders, millions of Americans have isolated…

5 years ago

Bat Says Hi As It Hunts

Velvety free-tail bats produce sounds that help them locate insect prey, but that simultaneously identify them to their companions. --…

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