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Fighting Back against the Loneliness Epidemic

Adhering to social distancing guidelines, I placed the bag on the doorknob, knocked three times loudly, and quickly stepped back…

5 years ago

Coronavirus: How It Infects Us and How We Might Stop It

How does SARS-CoV-2 sneak into our body? What can our immune system do and how can the virus sometimes defeat…

5 years ago

Leftovers Are A Food Waste Problem

When restaurants first shut down early in the pandemic, Americans raided grocery stores. They started cooking more at home. And,…

5 years ago

Blood and Silicon: New Electronics-Cooling System Mimics Human Capillaries

As electronics get steadily smaller and denser, they also get hotter. Their components do not function best at high temperatures,…

5 years ago

How Good a Diet Is Intermittent Fasting?

Healthy weight management comes with many perks. Among the proven benefits: a reduced risk of diabetes, less joint pain, lower…

5 years ago

How Scientists Discovered the Staggering Complexity of Human Evolution

In 1859, 14 years after the founding of this magazine, Charles Darwin published the most important scientific book ever written.…

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Uber Commits to 100 Percent EVs–Will It Work?

Uber Technologies Inc. yesterday pledged to use only electric vehicles by 2030 in the United States, Canada and Europe, and…

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Scientists React​ to Halt of Leading Coronavirus Vaccine Trial

Enrolment in global trials of a leading coronavirus-vaccine candidate are on hold after a ‘suspected adverse event’ in a person…

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Some Dinosaurs Probably Nested in Arctic

“Those vicious, predatory dinosaurs that tended to be fairly small—six to nine, ten feet long snout to tail. They’re certainly…

5 years ago

COVID-19’s Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race

George Floyd could not breathe. Like other Americans now numbering in the hundreds of thousands, he gasped horribly for air…

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