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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
They think it makes them look weak, and avoiding that is evidently more important to them than demonstrating responsible behavior
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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
Phil Anderson’s article “More Is Different” describes how different levels of complexity require new ways of thinking. And as the virus multiplies and spreads, that’s just what the human race desperately needs...
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The Fight against COVID-19 Threatens to Cause Collateral Health Damage
The pandemic is no excuse to abandon chronic disease management and prevention
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One More Pioneering Woman in Science You’ve Probably Never Heard of
Elizabeth Stern’s research led the way to our modern understanding of the prevention, treatment and diagnosis of cervical cancer
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Farewell, Amoeba Fans
This blog, though not its author, reaches the end of the line
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Contagious Amoeba Vampirizes Gum Cells [Video]
An amoeba spread by respiratory droplets, kisses and eating utensils may be a serious (and creepy) gum disease pathogen
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Will the Nature-Nurture Debate Ever End?
Biology writer Carl Zimmer answers questions on heredity, CRISPR, human enhancement, immortality and the coronavirus...
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Chimpanzees Deserve Mother's Day Too
Much like their human counterparts, chimpanzee mothers provide their offspring with far more than just food
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Scientists Waited Two and a Half Years to See whether Bacteria Can Eat Rock
The mystery of dirt’s origins is a thorny experimental problem
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Dirt Doesn’t Smell like Dirt
It smells like bacteria. But why?
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Travel Down a Borehole into Antarctica's Lake Mercer [Video]
Beautiful new footage ventures into a lake that is among the most remote on earth
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Feast Your Eyes on Australia’s Newly Explored Depths [Video]
Take a few moments to enjoy stalked barnacles, googly-eyed glass squid and other oddities of the deep, where it is cold, dark and 100 percent coronavirus free
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A Quest for the Genetic Fountain of Youth
The study of long-lived mammals can help scientists understand why humans age
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