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New Design Helps N95 Mask Wearers Breathe Easier

Wearing high-grade filter masks can help protect against the novel coronavirus. But after a few hours, these tight-fitting devices can…

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The Beautiful, Irregular Universe – Scientific American

A new x-ray survey of distant galaxies suggests that the universe is expanding unevenly Credit: Scientific American Space & Physics…

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Funding Cuts Threaten to Hobble American Science

One of the benefits of modern technology is the ability it gives us to catch up on films and television…

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Smell Receptors Activate Ant Aggression

Accurately distinguishing friend from foe is a matter of life and death for ants: mistaking an invader for a nest…

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The Tragedy of the Compost

Most food waste gets thrown into in landfills rather than being recycled—but one abandoned dump is getting a makeover --…

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The Special Challenge of Fighting COVID-19 in Africa

The ongoing global COVID-19 outbreak has revealed how strikingly unprepared the world is for a pandemic. A governance crisis is…

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Parasites Thrive in Lizard Embryos’ Brain

When Nathalie Feiner spotted a tiny nematode worm wriggling in an embryonic lizard's brain from the French Pyrenees, she thought…

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Visionary Science Takes More than Just Technical Skills

In athletics, the path along which runners sprint is dictated in advance. What the competition tests is the skill of…

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Will the Earth ‘Remember’ the Coronavirus Pandemic?

In 2017 researchers from several universities used advanced laser-based technology to peer inside ice cores pulled from high in the…

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Forced Social Isolation Causes Neural Craving Similar to Hunger

The need for connection-- to form and maintain at least a minimal number of positive, stable, intimate relationships-- is a…

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