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Antiparticles Would Deliver Mortal Blow to Einstein’s Principle

Originally published in March 1961 Credit: Scientific AmericanAdvertisement “If a future experiment should demonstrate that antiparticles have a negative gravitational…

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Cancer Patients Face Treatment Delays and Uncertainty as Coronavirus Overwhelms Hospitals

The federal government has encouraged health centers to delay nonessential surgeries while weighing the severity of patients’ conditions and the…

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“Punch Card” DNA Could Mean Cheaper High-Capacity Data Storage

If everyone had to rely on flash memory—the data-storage system used in memory cards and thumb drives—the amount of information…

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Margaret Burbidge, Astronomer Who Studied the Inner Workings of Stars, Dies at 100

Margaret Burbidge, an astronomer who made vital contributions to our understanding of what happens inside stars and who worked on…

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Why Measles Deaths Are Surging–and Coronavirus Could Make it Worse

A viral outbreak has killed more than 6,500 children in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) and is still…

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Can Coal Survive the Coronavirus?

Add U.S. coal to the list of industries threatened by the novel coronavirus. Part of its problem is conditions that…

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How People with Autism Forge Friendships

It is lunchtime on a Sunday in January. At a long table inside a delicatessen in midtown Manhattan, a group…

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Our Knowledge of Viruses Is Badly Inadequate

Living through the COVID-19 pandemic, we are all now seeing the consequences of a failure to plan ahead when an…

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Not Just Ventilators: Staff Trained to Run Them Are in Short Supply

Governor Andrew Cuomo has warned that New York State is running out of time to get enough ventilators to treat…

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Quest to Use CRISPR Against Disease Gains Ground

The prospect of using the popular genome-editing tool CRISPR to treat a host of diseases in people is moving closer…

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