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Inequality before Birth Contributes to Health Inequality in Adults

The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately hurt members of minority communities in the U.S. As of late July, 73.7 Black people…

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How Andrea Ghez Won the Nobel for an Experiment Nobody Thought Would Work

Standing in my office 25 years ago was an unknown, newly minted astronomer with a half-smile on her face. She…

5 years ago

Nobelist Talks CRISPR Uses – Scientific American

Steve Mirsky: On October 7th, Jennifer Doudna and Emmanuelle Charpentier shared the 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for the development…

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COVID-19 Is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

“It affects virtually nobody,” President Donald Trump said of the novel coronavirus on September 21—a few hours before U.S. deaths…

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Our Brain Is Better at Remembering Where to Find Brownies Than Cherry Tomatoes

The human brain is hardwired to map our surroundings. This trait is called spatial memory—our ability to remember certain locations…

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Nobel Prize Work Took Black Holes from Fantasy to Fact

As the carnage of the Eastern Front raged around him, a German lieutenant in World War I digested Albert Einstein’s…

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Last Chance for WIMPs: Physicists Launch All-Out Hunt for Dark-Matter Candidate

Physicists are hatching a plan to give a popular but elusive dark-matter candidate a last chance to reveal itself. For…

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U.S. Wind and Solar Installation Are Smashing Records, But the Trend May Not Last

The United States is on pace to install record amounts of wind and solar this year, underscoring America's capacity to…

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Would a Green New Deal Add or Kill Jobs?

Editor’s Note (10/8/20): At the October 7 vice presidential debate, Kamala Harris and Mike Pence tussled over the Green New…

5 years ago

COVID-19 Is Now the Third Leading Cause of Death in the U.S.

“It affects virtually nobody,” President Donald Trump said of the novel coronavirus on September 21—a few hours before U.S. deaths…

5 years ago