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Why Are Police Using a World War I–Era Chemical Weapon on Civilians?
The pattern is depressingly familiar by now: a Black man dies at the hands of police; the entire nation bears…
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Will Quantum Computing Ever Live Up to Its Hype?
Quantum computers have been on my mind a lot lately. A friend who likes investing in tech, and who knows…
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Kamala Harris Lays Out Economic Priorities, Skips Climate Change
In her first major economic address, Vice President Kamala Harris yesterday outlined what the White House billed as a “vision…
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What’s Causing Michigan’s COVID Surge, and Who’s Getting Sick?
Despite the impressive progress in COVID vaccinations across the country, cases and hospitalization rates are stubbornly rising again in many…
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Beehives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shahla Farzan. Every honeybee colony has its own unique scent like a fingerprint. And…
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Dolphin Spins, Adolescent Brains and a Very Big Map
It seems like every conversation these days quickly turns to COVID vaccines: Which of your dear ones have gotten a…
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Bee Hives Are Held Together by Their Mutual Gut Microbes
Shahla Farzan: This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Shahla Farzan. Every honeybee colony has its own unique scent, like…
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Genomes Reveal Humanity’s Journey into the Americas
Our species, Homo sapiens, emerged in Africa hundreds of thousands of years ago. From there modern humans followed in the…
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Can Natural Gas Be Part of a Low-Carbon Future?
In the mid-2010s it became common to say that natural gas would be a bridge fuel to a zero-carbon future,…
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Volcanic Ash Threatens Pompeii’s Buried Murals
Smothered under volcanic ash and rocks from the eruption of Mount Vesuvius, the ancient city of Pompeii in modern-day Italy…
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X-Prize Winners Use CO2 Emissions to Make Concrete
On a snowy April day in 2016, then-Wyoming Gov. Matt Mead announced a competition that he hoped would save the…
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The Race to Curb the Spread of COVID Vaccine Disinformation
In March, Twitter put its foot down: users who repeatedly spread false information about COVID-19 vaccines will have their accounts…
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