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Did a Jurassic Dinosaur Smoosh a Turtle?
A smashed shell may have been crumpled by an ambling dinosaur
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The Darker Side of John Wesley Powell
Like other early American geologists, the man who explored the Colorado River did anthropological research that presupposed the racial inferiority of Native Americans
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It’s Raining on the Sun
Structures in the corona called “null-point topologies” may help solve two long-standing solar mysteries
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The Closure of a Historic Hospital Is an Ominous Warning Sign
Hahnemann University Hospital has been serving Philadelphia’s poorest residents since 1848; its demise is a harbinger of worse to come
“Dogwood Winter,” Meet “Curb Appeal”
Language and the U.S.’s relationship with the outdoors
5G Is Coming: How Worried Should We Be about the Health Risks?
So far, at least, there’s little evidence of danger
Winston Churchill’s Thoughts on Evolution
His essay on alien life was uncovered in 2016; now we have a second example of his previously unpublished thoughts about science
Cultivating Emotion Regulation and Mental Health
Susanne Schweizer is a neuroscientist investigating the development of emotional regulatory processes and their role in mental health across the life span
Is Mathematics, Like Science, Pluralistic?
Mathematicians disagree over whether their fundamental assumptions, or axioms, are true...
New Proto-Dinosaur Found in Colorado
A lanky reptile found in the Centennial State is a close cousin of early dinosaurs
Did the Dinosaur-Killing Asteroid Inadvertently Help Lichens?
The leafy lichens seem to have picked up where a lot of incinerated plants left off
Banging, Zooming, Ringing and Raining
Explosions on Titan, cometary visitors, a black hole merger and water in an exoplanetary atmosphere
Pluralism: Beyond the One and Only Truth
Some big questions, such as how matter makes mind and what quantum mechanics means, may not have a single, definitive answer
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