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Hi, I’m Scientific American assistant news editor Sarah Lewin Frasier. And here’s a short piece from the August 2020 issue…

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175 Years of Scientific American: The Good, the Bad and the Debunking

This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on August 29, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. And yesterday was the 175th anniversary…

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Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts

Slashing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels will require billions of kilograms of metal: a single wind turbine can contain more…

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COVID-19 Can Wreck Your Heart, Even if You Haven’t Had Any Symptoms

Beyond its scientific backing, the notion that a COVID-19 patient might wind up with long-term lung scarring or breathing issues…

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Deep-Sea Mining: How to Balance Need for Metals with Ecological Impacts

Slashing humanity’s reliance on fossil fuels will require billions of kilograms of metal: a single wind turbine can contain more…

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The Dangers of Intellectual Territorialism

This was wise advice that accomplished its goal, as I received tenure a few years later. Within two decades, I…

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Stressed Out: Causes, Effects and Keeping Calm

Section 1: Identifying Stress & Trauma 1.1    Sussing Out Stress          by Hermann Englert 1.2    Treating a Toxin to…

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Do-it-Yourself Vaccines for COVID-19 – Scientific American

In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, members of the Rapid Deployment Vaccine Collaborative (or RaDVaC)—a group composed of scientists and…

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Red Stalagmites Reveal Glimpses of the Past

Scientific American August 2020In a cave in northern Spain, stalagmites rich in organic matter are environmental record keepersNot far from…

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175 Years of Scientific American: The Good, the Bad, and Debunking

This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on August 29th, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. And yesterday was the 175th anniversary…

5 years ago