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Meteorologists Rain on Cloud-Seeding Parade

Originally published in July 1957 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “The Council of the American Meteorological Society recently summed up the present evidence for the effectiveness of cloud-seeding. Its verdict: Not proven. Conditions favorable for artificial rainmaking, the statement points out, are very much the same as those which usually lead to natural rain. Says the […]

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Coronavirus deaths in US top 3,000

There are at least 160714 cases of coronavirus in the United States, including 3004 deaths, according to CNN Health’s tally. The total includes cases from all 50 … source

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The Future of Medicine: A New Era for Alzheimer’s

It is time to start anew. More than a century after neuropathologist Alois Alzheimer gave the first scientific talk describing the disease that bears his name today, we have no good treatments for this thief of minds, and we certainly have no cure. Today 40 million to 50 million people worldwide suffer from Alzheimer’s disease […]

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Introducing the May 2020 Issue

Magazine issue closes are always hectic. We spend months working on each edition, but then for one week, roughly six weeks before publication, we have to triple-check each of the some 100 pages in the book and get them out the door in time to meet our monthly printer deadline. This close is different. As […]

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New Test Uses DNA Trap to Detect Dengue

Scientists have crafted a trap for the dengue virus using a scaffold made from fragments of DNA. The star-shaped structure is engineered to single out the virus in the bloodstream and latch on to it with precision, providing a powerful yet simple test to detect the mosquito-transmitted disease. Dengue is the world’s fastest-growing vector-borne disease, […]