Mounting Evidence Suggests Coronavirus is Airborne–but Health Advice Has Not Caught Up
In Lidia Morawska’s home city of Brisbane on Australia’s east coast, roadside signs broadcast a simple message: ‘Wash hands, save
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How Universities Can Keep Foreign Governments from Stealing Intellectual Capital
Earlier this year Charles Lieber, then chair of Harvard University’s chemistry department and a nanotechnology expert, was arrested and charged
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Let’s Defund the Pentagon, Too
Toward the end of his life, Martin Luther King, Jr., after agonizing about the Vietnam War in private, began denouncing
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Warming Could Lower One Barrier to Invasive Fish Reaching Great Lakes
Biologists observing the spread of invasive Asian carp up the Mississippi River Basin had identified two possible barriers—one structural, one
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Hypnosis Can Cure Lying But not Lack of Ambition
Originally published in February 1900 Credit: Scientific American Advertisement “Dr. John D. Quackenbos, of Columbia University, has long been engaged
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Black Images Matter: How Cameras Helped—and Sometimes Harmed—Black People
In the 19th century, the most photographed man in the world wasn’t Walt Whitman or Ulysses S. Grant or even
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Stereotypes Harm Black Lives and Livelihoods, but Research Suggests Ways to Improve Things
The Black Lives Matter protests shaking the world have thankfully brought renewed attention not just to police brutality but to
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Drones Capture Close Encounters between Great White Sharks and Beachgoers
CHRIS LOWE: I’m out here with my team and we’re doing surveys for sharks. So we’re using drones to fly
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Vaccinations Have Sharply Declined Nationwide during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Since the coronavirus pandemic started spreading across the U.S. and state governments issued stay-at-home orders, millions of Americans have isolated
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Coronavirus Is Attacking the Navajo ‘because We Have Built the Perfect Human for It to Invade’
As told to Scientific American When a family member dies, we the Diné, whom Spanish conquistadors named the Navajo, send
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