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Costa Rica Readies Horse Antibodies for Trials as an Inexpensive COVID-19 Therapy

Development of the hundreds of vaccines and therapies for COVID-19 is by no means confined to metro areas surrounding San…

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COVID-19 Has Worsened the Ocean Plastic Pollution Problem

Eight million metric tons of plastic waste enter the oceans every year. This equates to one garbage truck’s worth of…

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This Twist on Schrödinger’s Cat Paradox Has Major Implications for Quantum Theory

What does it feel like to be both alive and dead? That question irked and inspired Hungarian-American physicist Eugene Wigner…

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This Lab Aims to Prepare the U.S. Electricity Grid for a Climate Transformation

The Department of Energy is preparing a new set of partnerships and innovations that could help the nation's three power…

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The Film Radioactive Shows how Marie Curie Was a “Woman of the Future”

Too often, the towering figures of science remain stick figures in the history books, known for their discoveries and accomplishments…

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Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science

In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Krauss bemoans what he sees as contemporary science’s “ideological corruption.”…

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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: August 2020

1970 A Lunar “Tablespoonful” “In the broad, flat lunar maria, or ‘seas’ (such as Mare Tranquillitatis, the site of the…

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Blame Poverty, Not the Poor, for COVID-19’s Spread in Brazil’s Amazon

To judge by popular movies, people who live in the Brazilian Amazon are at constant risk of being attacked by…

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How to Know If It’s OK to Visit Your Favorite Store or Restaurant

Just because many businesses are open again doesn’t mean the pandemic is over. The coronavirus is still on the loose…

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The World’s Highest-Dwelling Mammal Lives atop a Volcano

In 2013, two mountaineers reached the top of Vulcán Llullaillaco, a 22,000-foot-tall volcano on the border of Chile and Argentina—when…

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