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Originally published in August 1968 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “If by some special arrangement humans could be made to breathe water…
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Colleges and universities in the U.S. are currently being forced to make a seemingly impossible decision between in-person and remote…
We’re in a terrifying and confusing pandemic, with new and sometimes conflicting information about COVID-19 emerging all the time. In…