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Nobel Prize in Chemistry Goes to Discovery of ‘Genetic Scissors’ Called CRISPR/Cas9

Emmanuelle Charpentier and Jennifer A. Doudna win for technology that gives scientists unprecedented abilities to change the code of life Emmanuelle…

5 years ago

Big Tech, Out-of-Control Capitalism and the End of Civilization

My girlfriend, “Emily,” is always telling me I have to read this or watch that. I usually resist. I have…

5 years ago

A Political Scientist’s Guide to Following the Election

A lot of things we never thought would happen over the last four years have happened. On September 23, when…

5 years ago

Faraway Magma Reservoirs Complicate Volcano Monitoring

Magma—the molten rock that nourishes volcanoes—can lurk in underground pockets surprisingly far from where it emerges, new research shows. This…

5 years ago

Rising Temperatures Undermine Academic Success and Equity

Hotter daytimes are thwarting students’ academic progress and exacerbating long-standing educational inequities for people of color, according to researchers who…

5 years ago

How Trump Could Have Exposed Biden and Others to COVID at the Debate

President Donald Trump tested positive for the novel coronavirus last week, just days after attending the first presidential debate with…

5 years ago

A Political Scientist’s Guide to Following the Election

A lot of things we never thought would happen over the last four years have happened. On September 23, when…

5 years ago

Black Hole Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists for their work on black holes. British cosmologist Roger…

5 years ago

Black Hole Scientists Win Nobel Prize in Physics

This year’s Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded to three scientists for their work on black holes. British cosmologist Roger…

5 years ago

21st-Century Gaslighting – Scientific American

Untruths come in many shapes and sizes. All are antithetical to science, but the most flagrant variety—gaslighting, in which someone…

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