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Experts Doubt the Sun Is Actually Burning Coal

Originally published in August 1863 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “If the sun were composed of coal, it would last at the…

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Nurses Are Playing a Crucial Role in this Pandemic—as Always

The World Health Organization declared 2020 to be the “Year of the Nurse and Midwife” in celebration of the 200th…

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Virus Mutations Reveal How COVID-19 Really Spread

Globe-trotting humans were the culprits  Credit: Martin KrzywinskiAdvertisement The world struggled to understand how COVID-19 spread during the pandemic’s first…

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The Morally Complex Mix of Euthanasia and Organ Donation

The first time Fred Gillis noticed something was wrong he was on the ice, holding his hockey stick but somehow…

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Giant Volcano Rewrites the Story of Seafloor Formation

Big, dark ocean waves were rolling our research ship from side to side. The Falkor is 83 meters long and…

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A Shiny Snack Bag’s Reflections Can Reconstruct the Room around It

Still-life artists know that to make an image of an object look like the real thing, they must account for…

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Don’t Regulate Artificial Intelligence: Starve It

Artificial intelligence is still in its infancy. But it may well prove to be the most powerful technology ever invented.…

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New Frontiers in Alzheimer’s – Scientific American

Section 1: Underpinnings of Disease 1.1    Shifting Tactics on Alzheimer’s          by Claudia Wallis 1.2    Possible Missing Link in…

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Embrace the Ultimate Unknown – Scientific American Blog Network

"The irony of [the human condition] is that the deepest need is to be free of the anxiety of…

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In Search of Naked Singularities

Black holes are hidden behind event horizons, and just as in Las Vegas, “whatever happens inside the horizon, stays inside…

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