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Engineers Offer DIY Solutions to Coronavirus Equipment Shortages

The world is in desperate need of protective gear to keep health care workers safe and ventilators to help severely…

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Extend the Census Deadline to Protect Vulnerable Children

Census Day, when census takers usually begin to knock on households tracking down those less likely to be counted, was…

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Elephants Appear as Far as the Eye Can See

Originally published in January 1860 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “The celebrated African traveler Dr. Livingstone relates by letter: ‘The luxuriant valley…

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The (Potential) Upside for Couples of Sheltering in Place

As the global strategy for slowing the spread of the COVID-19 pandemic changes from containment to mitigation, millions of residents…

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Remembering Mathematical Magician John Conway

"In the beginning, everything was void, and J.H.W.H Conway began to create numbers.” This is how mathematician John Horton Conway…

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Quantum Steampunk: 19th-Century Science Meets Technology of Today

London, at an hour that made Rosalind glad she'd nicked her brother's black cloak instead of wearing her scarlet one.…

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The Pandemic also Threatens Endangered Languages

On April 4, Licho, one of the four last speakers of the Great Andamanese language family, died of tuberculosis and…

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The Man Who Beat the 1957 Flu Pandemic

This essay first appeared on Last Word on Nothing on April 15, 2020. Twenty biomedical companies. Seventy nations. An aggressive…

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The Coronavirus and Post-Traumatic Growth

On March 6, 1987, a ferry traveling from England to Belgium capsized, causing the death of 193 people. In the…

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Rand Paul's Extraterrestrial Vision Makes Zero Sense

Unconcerned about climate change on Earth, senator wants to create atmospheres on other planets -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source…

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