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India’s Coronavirus Refugees Are Also Development Refugees

On March 24, with only four hours’ notice and no consultation with India’s 29 states, Prime Minister Narendra Modi declared…

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RIP David Perlman, the Dean of American Science Writing

The world will sorely miss the wit and wisdom of David Perlman, long admired as the senior statesman of American…

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What Can We Learn from Our Sweat?

Yesterday morning, I was riding my bike up a pretty significant hill. To get up that hill, I was pedaling…

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In Case You Missed It

Top news from around the world Credit: NASAAdvertisement U.S. A hiker found two rusted, unexploded bombs from 1935 on the…

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Stiffer Roads Could Drive Down Carbon Emissions

When you walk on a sandy beach, it takes more energy than striding down a sidewalk—because the weight of your…

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Trump vs. Biden: How COVID-19 Will Affect Voting for President

In late April Democrat Kweisi Mfume of Maryland won a special election for a seat in the U.S. House of…

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Fiber 2.0–Fiber’s New Science of Health-Boosting Benefits

Fiber may seem like a somewhat frumpy nutrient, but it is actually one of the hottest nutrition topics right now.…

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Summer Weather Won’t Save Us from Coronavirus

Six months into the COVID-19 pandemic, and with summer on the doorstep, scientists are still investigating whether weather and climate…

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The World Doesn’t Need a New, Gigantic Particle Collider

This is not the right time for a bigger particle accelerator. But CERN, the European physics center based in Geneva,…

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Woman Can Eat after Stomach Is Removed

Originally published in January 1898 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “The catalog of brilliant achievements of surgery must now include the operation…

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