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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom
by Katie Worth on June 26, 2022 at 12:00 pm
Oil and gas representatives influence the standards for courses and textbooks, from kindergarten to 12th grade -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How Parents' Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children
by Rachel Yehuda on June 25, 2022 at 1:00 pm
Adverse experiences can change future generations through epigenetic pathways -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Roe v. Wade Was Overturned. Here's how Your Phone Could Be Used to Spy on You.
by Sophie Bushwick, Tulika Bose, Michael Tabb on June 24, 2022 at 8:15 pm
From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe […]
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Deadly Heat Wave's Lesson: 'This Is the Future We All Face'
by Ariel Wittenberg, E&E News on June 24, 2022 at 7:00 pm
After last year’s heat crisis, Pacific Northwest emergency managers, doctors and even transit systems are using lessons learned to prepare for this summer -- […]
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Why Was Afghanistan's Magnitude 5.9 Earthquake So Devastating?
by Sasha Warren on June 24, 2022 at 6:05 pm
Famed seismologist Lucy Jones explains how building methods and quake dynamics interact—and what to do about the problem -- Read more on […]
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How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online
by Jenna Sherman on June 24, 2022 at 4:50 pm
With reproductive rights being dismantled, social media companies need to stop propagating lies -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Primary Care Providers Can Help Safeguard Abortion
by Diana Carvajal, Casandra Cashman, Ian Lague on June 24, 2022 at 3:50 pm
As abortion access becomes more limited in the U.S., primary care providers can and should provide these services to people who need them -- Read more on […]
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Overturning Roe v. Wade Could Have Devastating Health and Financial Impacts, Landmark Study Showed
by Tanya Lewis on June 24, 2022 at 3:27 pm
The researcher who led the Turnaway Study explains how being denied an abortion had lasting negative effects on those who were forced to carry their […]
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How AI Facial Recognition Is Helping Conserve Pumas
by Ashleigh Papp on June 24, 2022 at 3:15 pm
Researchers tricked out conventional camera traps to snap headshots of Puma concolor, revealing a better way to track the elusive species. -- Read more on […]
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Spray-On, Rinse-Off Food 'Wrapper' Can Cut Plastic Packaging
by Sam Jones on June 24, 2022 at 12:00 pm
The coating deters microorganisms to fight both food waste and foodborne illness -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs's Life
by Clara Moskowitz on June 24, 2022 at 10:45 am
A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Research on Gun Violence Has Been Thwarted: It's Now More Urgent Than Ever
by Asheley Van Ness, Evan Mintz on June 23, 2022 at 6:35 pm
We need to make firearms safer, and to do that, we need more robust research funding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Prescribed Burns Are More Dangerous because of Climate Change
by Thomas Frank, E&E News on June 23, 2022 at 6:00 pm
But the technique must remain in the firefighting toolbox, a new U.S. Forest Service report says -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Poliovirus Detected in London Sewage, U.K. Officials Warn
by Nicoletta Lanese, LiveScience on June 23, 2022 at 4:00 pm
The detected strain can sometimes cause severe disease in people who are not vaccinated against polio -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Sequencing Cat Genomes Could Help Breed Healthier Kitties
by Fionna M. D. Samuels on June 23, 2022 at 3:10 pm
A study of more than 11,000 felines reveals the benefits of genetic testing before breeding -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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We Can't Let Monkeypox Turn into a Repeat of COVID
by Muhammad Jawad Noon on June 23, 2022 at 2:35 pm
Will governments apply lessons learned from COVID to this latest viral outbreak? -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth
by Leonard David on June 23, 2022 at 10:45 am
Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere -- […]
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Climate Change Is Turning More of Central Asia into Desert
by Giorgia Guglielmi, Nature magazine on June 22, 2022 at 6:00 pm
The rapid expansion will have significant impacts on ecosystems and the people and animals who rely on them -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Columbine Should Have Been an Isolated Event: It Was Just a Beginning
by Christopher Colwell on June 22, 2022 at 4:30 pm
An emergency medicine physician remembers witnessing the carnage of more than one mass shooting -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Seville Launches World's First Program to Name and Rank Heat Waves
by Chelsea Harvey, E&E News on June 22, 2022 at 4:00 pm
The launch comes after the hottest first two weeks of June ever recorded in Spain -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Venomous Snail Unlocks New Diabetes Drugs
by Anna Rogers on June 22, 2022 at 1:00 pm
A cone snail’s poison helps to form a fast-acting insulin -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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New Maps of Milky Way Are Biggest and Best Yet
by Sasha Warren on June 22, 2022 at 10:45 am
The latest data release from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission is sparking a frenzy of exciting new astrophysics research -- Read more on […]
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Fight over Damages Threatens to Derail Climate Negotiations
by Sara Schonhardt, E&E News on June 21, 2022 at 5:30 pm
Small nations that have done little to cause global warming stand to suffer immeasurably and are increasingly vocal about receiving compensation -- Read more […]
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To Prevent Nuclear Annihilation, Resume Negotiations Immediately
by The Editors on June 21, 2022 at 1:00 pm
The war in Ukraine shows the urgency of nuclear arms control -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com
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Marine Microbe Lures Prey into Custom Slime Traps
by Susan Cosier on June 21, 2022 at 10:45 am
These organisms’ private “mucospheres” play an outsize role in the planet’s carbon cycle -- Read more on ScientificAmerican.com