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How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT
The 2004 tsunami devastated the Nicobar Islanders, but what came next was arguably worse
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COVID-19: Predicting the Path and Analyzing Immunity
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 20:10:00 GMT
Scientific American contributing editor W. Wayt Gibbs continues to report on the coronavirus outbreak from his home in Kirkland, Wash., site of the first U.S. cases. In this installment, he talks...
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Scientists Trace Neutron Star Crash That Helped Form Our Solar System
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 18:00:00 GMT
The collision helped seed Earth with its precious metals
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Female Surgeons Are Treated Terribly
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT
Their male colleagues are the problem when they should be allies
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Medical Students Must Learn How Social Factors Affect Health
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 14:00:00 GMT
Part of a physician’s job should be to address not just illness but also its root causes
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We Should Message Extraterrestrial Civilizations, Not Just Listen for Them
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 16:00:00 GMT
Doing so could help us mature as a species
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Must We All Become More Creative because of the Pandemic?
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 19:00:00 GMT
It worked for Shakespeare and Isaac Newton during plagues, but let’s not put more pressure on ourselves than we already have
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A Quest for the Genetic Fountain of Youth
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 11:00:00 GMT
The study of long-lived mammals can help scientists understand why humans age
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Honking Cars Are the Best Warning for Air Raids
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 16:00:00 GMT
Originally published in June 1918
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Antarctic Fish Is a Blood Doping Champion
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 10:45:00 GMT
To remain active in frigid environments, the bald notothen drastically adjusts oxygen in its blood
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Exponential Infection Increases Are Deadly Serious
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 03:15:00 GMT
Listen in as I use two calculators to track the difference in numbers of infections over a short period of time, depending on how many people each infected individual infects on average.
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Tiny Wormlike Creature May Be Our Oldest Known Ancestor
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 23:10:00 GMT
The bilateral organism crawled on the seafloor, taking in organic matter at one end and dumping the remains out the other some 555 million years ago.
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Collision on One Side of Pluto Ripped Up Terrain on the Other, Study Suggests
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 10:45:00 GMT
A new computer model shows how a buried ocean on the dwarf planet might have enabled seismic waves to travel
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Deaths of Young Children Are Decreasing Globally, But ...
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT
Progress in improving mortality varies significantly within countries
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Flat Earthers: What They Believe and Why
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 17:49:00 GMT
Michael Marshall, project director of the Good Thinking Society in the U.K., talks about flat earth belief and its relationship to conspiracy theories and other antiscience activities.
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Genetically Engineering the Perfect Bee--in 1892
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 14:15:00 GMT
Originally published in August 1892
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Science News Briefs from around the Planet
Sun, 29 Mar 2020 03:23:00 GMT
Here are a few brief reports about science and technology from around the planet, including one about the discovery of an intact chicken egg dating to Roman Britain.
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Milky Way Dark Matter Signals in Doubt after Controversial New Papers
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 18:00:00 GMT
New analyses question whether mysterious gamma-ray and x-ray light in the galaxy actually stems from an invisible mass
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Urban Riots Are Actually "Prepolitical" Protests
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 14:00:00 GMT
Originally published in June 1968
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Help Researchers Track COVID-19
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 23:04:00 GMT
By entering your health status, even if you’re feeling fine, at the Web site COVID Near You, you can help researchers develop a nationwide look at where hotspots of coronavirus are...
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Sick Vampire Bats Restrict Grooming to Close Family
Thu, 26 Mar 2020 03:15:00 GMT
When vampire bats feel sick, they still engage in prosocial acts such as sharing food with nonrelatives. But they cut back on grooming anyone other than their closest kin.
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Will String Theory Finally Be Put to the Experimental Test?
Wed, 25 Mar 2020 10:45:00 GMT
Physicists have found a way the theory might limit the cosmic inflation that is thought to have expanded the early universe
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Decoherence Is a Problem for Quantum Computing, But ...
Mon, 30 Mar 2020 11:00:00 GMT
The interactions with the environment that cause it are what make quantum measurement possible
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Firefighter Suit Draws Breathable Air from the Floor
Fri, 27 Mar 2020 14:30:00 GMT
Originally published in July 1857
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Some Kinds of Doctors Get More Speeding Tickets Than Others
Tue, 24 Mar 2020 13:00:00 GMT
Make way for emergencies—but go safely
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