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Rethinking Humanity’s Ties to Nature

Four-year-old Nadia began to show some worrisome signs. She had an unusually poor appetite accompanied by a dry cough. Sure…

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High Temperatures Set Off Major Greenland Ice Melt–Again

A significant melt event is unfolding in Greenland this week. With temperatures nearly 20 degrees Fahrenheit higher than usual in…

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How to Recognize and Avoid Common Thinking Traps

Your clever brain can work overtime building worst-case scenarios. Here’s how to recognize and avoid common thinking traps so you…

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A Hydrogen Iceberg from a Failed Star Might Have Passed through Our Solar System

Our sun is a ship; our galaxy is the sea. Moving in cosmic currents, our star completes a lap of…

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Coffee and Soup, in Pill Form, Make Soldiers Sick

Originally published in November 1895 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “The federal government has been experimenting at its military posts with condensed…

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How to Transport Crucial Vaccines without Cooling

Vaccines may soon make their film debut. Led by pharmaceutics expert Maria A. Croyle, researchers at the University of Texas…

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Building Kids’ Resilience through Play Is More Crucial than Ever

With almost 70 percent of the world’s student population impacted by school closures according to UNESCO, the long-term impact on…

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Bioluminescence Helps Prey Avoid Hungry Seals

Deep in the inky depths of what’s called the ocean’s mesopelagic zone, more than five hundred meters below the surface,…

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Flooding Disproportionately Harms Black Neighborhoods

When Hurricane Harvey devastated Texas in 2017, the neighborhood that suffered the worst flood damage was a section of southwest…

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Ancient DNA Yields New Clues to Dead Sea Scrolls

The scenario might sound like the opening line of a science-themed comedy routine: a molecular biologist and a Bible scholar…

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