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“Forever Chemicals” Are Building Up in the Arctic–and Likely Worldwide

The Arctic can appear to be a pristine, isolated frozen land. But human pollution has reached even this remote corner…

5 years ago

Bad Medicine Is Worse than No Medicine

At a restaurant industry executive event a little while ago, President Donald Trump stated that he was taking hydroxychloroquine or…

5 years ago

“Snot Palaces” Reveal Undersea Creature Secrets

Mucus…is a miraculous substance. It's in our noses, of course—but it also helps us swallow. And it lubricates our eyes,…

5 years ago

Thousands of Tons of Microplastics Are Falling from the Sky

Carried by the wind, dust particles from places such as the Sahara Desert can float halfway around the world before…

5 years ago

Firefighters Will Attack Blazes Quickly to Avoid Coronavirus

Firefighters plan to take an unusually aggressive approach to battling wildfires this year in an effort to avoid mass evacuations…

5 years ago

Fossil Footprints Help Uncover the Mysteries of Bipedal Crocodiles

More than 113 million years ago, a strange reptile lived in what is now South Korea. It strode around on…

5 years ago

Handheld Ultrasound Devices Are Speeding Diagnosis of COVID-19

When patients with a new disease called COVID-19 started pouring into his hospital, pulmonary and critical care physician Bilal Jalil…

5 years ago

The Glimmer of a Silver Lining

Traumatic events like pandemics can spur transformative psychological growth Credit: Tom Grill Getty ImagesAdvertisement Months of pandemic lockdowns, an economic…

5 years ago

Bizarre Nearby Star Offers Clues to Origins of Mysterious Fast Radio Bursts

For a fraction of a second in late April, a hyper-magnetized star in the Milky Way suddenly blasted out radio…

5 years ago

Religion and Science in a Time of COVID-19: Allies or Adversaries?

When the Black Death spread across Europe starting 1346,  science didn’t yet exist; to cope with the bubonic plague, people…

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