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We Must Reduce the Trauma of Medical Diagnoses

At some point in your life, you will likely experience the anxiety of sitting in a hospital room, waiting for…

5 years ago

Smoking or Vaping May Increase the Risk of a Severe Coronavirus Infection

Editor’s Note (9/8/20): This article has been updated and republished in light of findings suggesting a higher rate of COVID-19…

5 years ago

Our Health Depends on Our Homes and Work Spaces

When COVID-19 hit the U.S., most of us became homebodies. Journalist Emily Anthes was thus propitious in the timing of…

5 years ago

Mountain Peaks Seem to Shape Personality Traits in the American West

The designation “mountain man” conjures an image of a rough, bearded, possibly grimy white man living ruggedly and adventurously amid…

5 years ago

COVID19’s Disparate Impacts Are Not a Story about Race

George Floyd could not breathe. Like one hundred thousand other Americans, he gasped horribly for air before his world went…

5 years ago

Algorithm Aids Search for Those Lost at Sea

When a craft sinks or goes missing at sea, search-and-rescue teams often rely on computer models to determine where to…

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The Idea that a Scientific Theory can be ‘Falsified’ Is a Myth

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him…

5 years ago

The Idea that a Scientific Theory can be ‘Falsified’ Is a Myth

J.B.S. Haldane, one of the founders of modern evolutionary biology theory, was reportedly asked what it would take for him…

5 years ago

The Failure of Public Health Messaging about COVID-19

It seems that science has lost, and politics won, in the battle against COVID-19 here in the United States. A…

5 years ago

Poem: Bring Back the Leaf

Edited by Dava Sobel They sent out a dove: it wobbled home, wings slicked in a rainbow of oil, a…

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