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Coronavirus News Roundup, January 9-January 15
The items below are highlights from the free newsletter, “Smart, useful, science stuff about COVID-19.” To receive newsletter issues daily…
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Mysterious Heat Spikes inside Cells Are Probed with Tiny Diamonds
Taking a person’s temperature is no sweat: slip a thermometer under their tongue, say, and watch the reading climb to…
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Unrivaled View of Brilliant ‘Planetary Nebula’ NGC 2899
A star at the center of this tie-dye apparition is collapsing, a process scientists have watched and measured for decades.…
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Telescopes on Far Side of the Moon Could Illuminate the Cosmic Dark Ages
The “dark” side of the moon is poised to become our newest and best window on the hidden history of…
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Scientists Weigh In on India’s Citizenship Debate
Over little more than a year, hundreds of Indian scientists have repeatedly come together to express concern about the Modi…
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Warming May Push Ecosystems to Release Carbon, Instead of Absorbing It
All around the world, ecosystems are silently breathing. Plants take in carbon dioxide to use for photosynthesis. At the same…
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How Science Explains Trump’s Grip on White Males
The scenes that played out at the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday will forever live in infamy. As Congress prepared to…
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Should We Change COVID Vaccine Doses to Reach More People? What the Data Say
The first COVID-19 vaccines have arrived, and the race is on to get them into as many arms as possible…
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The Remaining COVID-19 Journey – Scientific American
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The World’s Oldest Animal Paintings Are on This Cave Wall
In the Western imagination, ancient cave paintings tend to conjure images of Lascaux, the cave complex in southwestern France that…
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Earth’s Biodiversity Bursts Do Not Follow Expected Pattern
Life finds a way. Paleontologists have reiterated that maxim over and over, often drawing from the way organisms seemed to…
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Scientific Collaboration in a Divided World
Collaboration has almost become a dirty word in America, tending more toward a definition of “traitorous cooperation with an enemy”…
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