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The Secret Sauce in Opinion Polling Can Also Be a Source of Spoilage

On November 6, 2020, I woke up to a flood (for a statistician) of tweets about my 2018 article “Statistical…

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Unprecedented 3-D view inside Animal Mummies

More than 2,000 years ago in Egypt, animals were often mummified as offerings to gods or buried along with human…

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Flood Risks to Low-Income Homes to Triple by 2050

The risk of coastal floods damaging or destroying low-income homes will triple over the next 30 years as rising tides…

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Undersea Earthquakes Reveal Sound Warming Info

To us humans, climate change feels like something that’s happening to the atmosphere. But most of the action is actually…

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Election Science Stakes: Medicine and Public Health

For this installment of our pre-election podcast series I spoke to Scientific American’s senior medicine editor, Josh Fischman. Steve Mirsky:…

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Double Whammy of Warming, Overfishing Could Spell Disaster for Antarctic Krill

The icy ocean around Antarctica may seem like a cold and foreboding place. But it’s actually brimming with life. Penguins…

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A Flu Shot Might Reduce Coronavirus Infections, Early Research Suggests

U.S. health officials are urging Americans to get their flu shots this year in the hopes of thwarting a winter…

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How Indigenous Communities in Canada Organized an Exemplary Public Health Response to COVID

The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the health of certain groups, including Black, Latinx and Native Americans, became clear from…

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One Climate-Change Wildfire Risk Lurks in the Dark

Rising nighttime temperatures stymie traditional firefighting methods -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com Source link

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How Indigenous Communities in Canada Organized an Exemplary COVID Public Health Response

The unequal impact of COVID-19 on the health of certain groups, including Black, Latinx and Native Americans, became clear from…

5 years ago