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Tag Archives: The Sciences
Biden Must Take Immediate Action to Reduce the Risk of Nuclear War
The continuing proliferation of atomic weapons threatens the safety of billions
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Major Physics Society Will Not Meet in Cities with Racist Policing Records
The American Physical Society’s new criteria for conference venues seem to be unique among scientific societies
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Golden Age of Black Holes
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An Ancient Proto-City Reveals the Origin of Home
The 9,000-year-old settlement of Çatalhöyük in Turkey shows how humans began putting down roots
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To Qualify as ‘Scientific,’ Evidence Has to Be Reproducible
We can never be sure if the interstellar object ‘Oumuamua, for example, was artificial—but we could be ready to answer that question for a future such visitor
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NASA Needs to Rename the James Webb Space Telescope
The successor to the Hubble honors a man who took part in the effort to purge LGBT people from the federal workforce
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Expert Opinion Can’t Be Trusted If You Consult the Wrong Sort of Expert
The failure of the U.S. to respond appropriately to the pandemic could have been predicted if anyone had bothered to ask social scientists
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Microscopic Wrinkles in Leaves Ward Off Insects
Researchers identify a new insect-defense mechanism
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Black Inventor Garrett Morgan Saved Countless Lives with Gas Mask and Improved Traffic Lights
In 1916, he strapped on his “safety hood” and dragged rescuers to safety, but racism prevented him from being hailed a hero
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Astronomers Just Upsized an Iconic Black Hole
Cygnus X-1, the first black hole ever discovered, is significantly bigger than previously believed
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Mystery of Spinning Atomic Fragments Solved at Last
New experiments have answered the decades-old question of how pieces of splitting nuclei get their spins
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Finding Yourself, and Your Community, When You Are Black in STEM
Antonio Baines is trying to build a more diverse science, one student at a time
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Mars Video Reveals Perseverance Rover’s Daring Touchdown
The NASA spacecraft has also snapped more shots of its surroundings and listened to a Martian wind gust
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E-Eggs Track Turtle Traffickers
Decoy sea turtle eggs containing tracking tech are new weapons against beach poachers and traffickers.
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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video
Last week’s pinpoint touchdown of NASA’s Mars Perseverance rover in Jezero Crater was historic for many reasons, chief among them the epochal nature of the mission’s task of seeking…
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New Supernova Alert System Promises Early Access to Spectacles in Space
Upgrades to the SuperNova Early Warning System (SNEWS) detection system offer advance notice of impending blasts
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Until Recently, People Accepted the ‘Fact’ of Aliens in the Solar System
For centuries, right up until the 1960s, the notion life on Mars—and elsewhere—wasn’t considered especially remarkable
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Are Dolphins Right-Handed or Left-Handed?
Trick question, since dolphins obviously don’t have hands—but studying whether they have “handedness” led to identifying a quirk of human perception
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Physicists Need to Be More Careful with How They Name Things
The popular term “quantum supremacy,” which refers to quantum computers outperforming classical ones, has inescapable racist overtones
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The U.S. Needs a Federal Department of Science and Technology
Currently, STEM-related policy is administered by a bewildering array of entities, which dilutes its effectiveness
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Even Tiny Phytoplankton Have Microbiomes
These algae exchange vital chemicals with bacteria that live around their surface
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Perseverance Has Landed! Mars Rover Begins a New Era of Exploration
NASA’s latest mission to the Red Planet will seek out signs of ancient life, gather samples for return to Earth, and even fly a first-of-its-kind interplanetary helicopter
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Biden Channels FDR on STEM Policy
The president’s letter to his new science advisor emphasizes the crucial role science plays in our society—much as Roosevelt did in a similar missive in 1944
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Virtual Conferences Aren’t as Accessible as You Might Think
They have some advantages for people with disabilities—but plenty of problems as well
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The First 100 Days on Mars: How NASA’s Perseverance Rover Will Begin Its Mission
With the space agency’s latest rover set to touch down on February 18, here is the agenda for its initial months
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Stop Domestic Terrorism
Our national leaders must take on racist-driven violence in the U.S.
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The Most Accurate Flat Map of Earth Yet
A cosmologist and his colleagues tackle a centuries-old cartographic conundrum
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What Scientists Have Learned from 100 Years of Bird Banding
A rich archive of data has illuminated the secret lives of birds
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Mammoth Genomes Shatter Record for Oldest DNA Sequences
Researchers extracted DNA from fossils that are more than a million years old, illuminating the origins of the woolly mammoth and the Columbian mammoth
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Dinosaur Discoveries Are Booming
Fossils are being found worldwide, and there are plenty more to come
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How NASA Aims to Achieve Perseverance’s High-Stakes Mars Landing
The robotic rover’s touchdown is meant to be the most accurate ever attempted on the Red Planet, opening the way for future pinpoint landfalls throughout the solar system
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Snakes’ Flexible, Heat-Sensing Organs Explained
Scientists decode how some snakes “see” in the dark
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The Dark Side of CRISPR
Its potential ability to “fix” people at the genetic level is a threat to those who are judged by society to be biologically inferior
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The Epic, Absurdly Complex Battle between a Zombie Maker and Its Victim
The emerald jewel wasp is a cockroach’s worst nightmare
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The Shrapnel That Killed the Dinosaurs
Science provides knowledge of objects that threaten the Earth, and the means to deflect them
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Social Justice Movements, Exomoons and a Century of Bird Banding
What we’re learning about how solar systems and civilizations developed
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As Perseverance Approaches Mars, Scientists Debate Its Sampling Strategy
The car-sized rover is the first step in an ambitious effort to bring pieces of the Red Planet back to Earth, but some crucial details remain undecided
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Quantum Mechanics, Free Will and the Game of Life
Some thoughts triggered by the death of the mathematician John Conway
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Readers Respond to the October 2020 Issue
Letters to the editor from the October 2020 issue of Scientific American
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Fractal Shapes, STI Treatment and Prevention, and Other New Science Books
Recommendations from the editors of Scientific American
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Science Songs: A Spotify Playlist
Aerodynamics, androids and fly larvae feature in our curated collection of top indie tunes inspired by science
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The Human Genome and the Making of a Skeptical Biologist
Thoughts on scientific ambition and progress, 20 years after the first draft of the genome was completed
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Climate Change Could Shred Guitars Known for Shredding
It is the wood that the rock greats have sworn by—swamp ash, in the form of their Fender Telecaster and Stratocaster guitars—for over 70 years. If you’ve ever listened to rock, you’ve…
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Reflections on the 20th Anniversary of the First Publication of the Human Genome
A new wave of research is needed to make ample use of humanity’s “most wondrous map”
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Neandertalized ‘Mini Brains’ Yield Clues to Modern Human Uniqueness
Experiments on clusters of cultured cells hint that a gene variant found only in Homo sapiens profoundly changed brain development in our species compared to our extinct relatives
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Whales’ Long, Loud Calls Reveal Structure beneath Ocean Floor
Sound waves from fin whales can help scientists probe Earth’s crust
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Snowflake Structure Still Mystifies Physicists
Their final shape depends on an array of temperature, humidity, and wind speed variables
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China’s First Mars Mission, Tianwen-1, Reaches the Red Planet
Now in orbit, the spacecraft will attempt a landing later this year
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Bromances Could Lead to More Romances for Male Hyenas
Spotted hyena males do not fight for mates, so how are certain males shut out of the mating game?
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