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Lung Cancer Screen Could Be Easy-pee-sy

Imagine getting screened for early-stage lung cancer simply by taking a deep breath from an inhaler, and then peeing into…

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Do We Live in a Lopsided Universe?

If your life sometimes seems directionless, you might legitimately blame the universe. According to the key tenets of modern physics,…

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Is This Telescope-On-A-Plane Worth Its Pricetag?

Mountain View, California On dozens of nights each year, NASA sends a jumbo jet carrying a 2.5-metre telescope into the…

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Climate Science Deniers Turn to Attacking Coronavirus Models

A vocal set of conservative critics have increased their attacks recently on the data modeling behind the novel coronavirus response,…

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We Put Science Back into EPA Air Pollution Standards, But…

Before dawn on the morning of October 10, 2019, the four of us gathered in a small hotel conference room…

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Bats Are a Key Source of Human Viruses–but They May Not Be Special

Bats and rodents are considered high-risk viral reservoirs—a source for diseases that can hop over to humans, and sometimes lead…

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Mobile Clinics Can Provide Equity in the Defense against COVID-19

Every week, a maroon-and-lime-tinted truck parks in some of Boston’s most underserved communities. The truck is a mobile health clinic…

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A New Era for Alzheimer’s

Special ReportSpecial ReportFresh approaches and hopeful clues in the search for novel therapiesNeurological HealthIt is time for a fresh approach…

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France Bets on Yaks – Scientific American

Originally published in June 1854 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “Geoffrey Saint-Hilaire, and other eminent naturalists in France, are beginning to consider…

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Exotic Creature in Antarctica Has Survived More than 30 Ice Ages

Scientific American April 2020Its perseverance is rewriting the history of life, and of ice, across the continent Ian Hogg and Byron…

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