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COVID Vaccines Are Safe and Effective–What the Research Says

As people around the world receive COVID-19 vaccines, reports of temporary side effects such as headaches and fevers are rolling…

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As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy

For anyone invested in NASA’s decades-long efforts to robotically explore Mars, now is the time for nail-biting. Launched last July…

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Miniature Satellites Reveal Cause of Deadly Uttarakhand Flood That Devastated Hydroelectric Dams

On Sunday morning a wall of thick, concrete-gray water rushed down India’s Dhauliganga river valley, sweeping dams, houses and people…

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We Must Confront Anti-Asian Racism in Science

Last summer some people posted a listing for a fake Asian restaurant near my university on Google Maps and Instagram,…

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Vaccines Alone Are Not Enough to Beat COVID

The world’s attention is rightly focused on news of COVID-19 vaccine updates, from eligibility to supply. But we will make…

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Australian Bees Were Seen Foraging at Twilight for First Time

Locking eyes with a bee is an opportunity offered only by photography. And while this close-up is strangely humanizing (who…

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Amanda Gorman’s Climate Poem Says Act ‘Now, Now, Now’

The Youth Poet Laureate offers an urgent messageAmanda Gorman recites her inaugural poem, "The Hill We Climb", during the 59th…

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Did a Supermassive Black Hole Influence the Evolution of Life on Earth?

In 1939, Albert Einstein published a paper in Annals of Mathematics, arguing that black holes do not exist in nature.…

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Five Things in Biden’s Climate Day Orders That Flew Under the Radar

President Biden launched one of the strongest climate policy platforms in U.S. history with a series of executive orders yesterday.…

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Experimental Tests of Theology – Scientific American

Can we test the claims of theology with experiments? In science, theories are routinely subjected to the guillotine of experiments.…

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