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How Your Homes and Buildings Affect You

Share this on WhatsApp This is Scientific American’s Science Talk, posted on July 30th, 2020. I’m Steve Mirsky. On this episode: ANTHES CLIP That’s Emily Anthes. She was on the podcast back in 2013 to talk about her biotech book Frankenstein’s Cat. Her new book is The Great Indoors: The Surprising Science of How Buildings […]

Mammoth Tusk Reveals Ancient Mammal’s Travels

Share this on WhatsApp Chemical analyses showed an individual mammoth made an epic journey across Alaska Credit: Beth Zaiken Advertisement Mammoths are among the best-known inhabitants of the last ice age. Fossils usually offer a static snapshot of an animal’s life, but researchers recently used one to track every place a male mammoth traveled from […]

The Science behind How Coronavirus Tests Work

Share this on WhatsApp So you think you may have COVID-19, and you want to get tested. Your first problem might be finding a test, depending on where you live and how sick you currently are. A recent survey conducted with administrators from 323 hospitals across the United States found… Quote: “Hospitals reported that severe […]