Storm Surge: The Science behind This Year’s Hyperactive Hurricane Season
[ad_1] The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and is living up to its name: Two storms, Laura
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Storm Surge: The Science behind This Year’s Unusual Hurricane Season
[ad_1] The peak of the Atlantic hurricane season has arrived and is living up to its name: Two storms, Laura
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Bread Science: A Yeasty Conversation
[ad_1] “Backing is applied microbiology,” according to the book Modernist Bread. During pandemic lockdowns, many people started baking their own
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The False Logic behind Science Denial
[ad_1] In college, I learned about the myriad logical fallacies that pervade our world. Good logic, it turned out, was
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The Language of Science – Scientific American
[ad_1] Credit: Moritz Stefaner and Christian Lässer Since at least the 17th century, science has struggled with words. Francis
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The Science of Sourdough: How Microbes Enabled a Pandemic Pastime
[ad_1] The Covid-19 pandemic has tightened our social circles and narrowed the scope of our lives in ways no one
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Women in Science May Suffer Lasting Career Damage from COVID-19
[ad_1] On a recent weeknight, biochemist and postdoctoral researcher Emilia Arturo read to her two children, tucked them into bed,
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Awareness of Our Biases Is Essential to Good Science
[ad_1] In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Lawrence Krauss bemoans what he sees as contemporary science’s “ideological
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Science and Scientific Expertise Are More Important Than Ever
[ad_1] In April of 2018, we described in this magazine our effort to enlist colleagues in the U.S. National Academy
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Science News Briefs from Around the Planet
[ad_1] Hi, I’m Scientific American assistant news editor Sarah Lewin Frasier. And here’s a short piece from the July 2020
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