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How a Landmark Physics Paper from the 1970s Uncannily Describes the COVID-19 Pandemic
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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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The Rise of Citizen Bioscience
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Water, and Maybe Life, in Places We Never Expected
A series of proposed space missions will look for organisms in subsurface oceans on the outer solar system’s icy moons
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Hopeful Monsters and the Snapping Shrimp
This remarkable crustacean can regrow a missing claw into a different sort of claw
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3 Cosmic Images from 2017: No. 3
One year, so much science. Here's the third of three spectacular, but less widely seen images from the near and far universe
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