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President Donald Trump moved to blame his Democratic competitor, former Vice President Joe Biden, for not instituting a national mask…
There is a joke in New Mexico that the rest of the country does not know the state is part…
Scientific American has never endorsed a presidential candidate in its 175-year history. This year we are compelled to do so.…
For many of us, living in a COVID-19 world feels as if we have been thrown into an alternative reality.…
The CDC’s Mortality and Morbidity Weekly Report, familiarly known as the MMWR, has been around for nearly a century, and…
Scientists often speak of a “new Arctic” to describe the region’s rapidly changing landscape. Temperatures are skyrocketing, sea ice is…
The Food and Drug Administration is weighing whether to follow British regulators in resuming a coronavirus vaccine trial that was…
I interviewed psychologist Susan Blackmore 20 years ago while doing research for my book Rational Mysticism. Here, lightly edited, is…