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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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This Ain't Your Grandma's SETI
Technological advances, plus a push to send signals to aliens, not just listen for them—means we need to think more about what happens when we make a discovery...
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What Everyone Gets Wrong about Black History in the Space Age
African-American astronauts have been another group of hidden figures in the U.S. space program
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Edgar Allan Poe--Cosmologist?
The treatise Eureka, which he published the year before his death in 1849, anticipates a surprising amount of modern science
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Ancient Meteorites Were Different
Types of rocky meteorites rare today were abundant 466 million years ago
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Vast Shadow Sweeps Across Young Exoplanetary System
18 years of Hubble Telescope data on a star system reveals a surprising phenomenon spanning tens of billions of miles
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NASA's 50 Years of Mars Exploration [Video]
Humans have been visiting and exploring Mars for more than half a century, and NASA has released a video celebrating the agency's remarkable contributions
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NASA Should Build a Superhighway in Space
NASA needs to get out of the rocket business and start doing what it's uniquely qualified for
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Carl Sagan's Extraordinary Career
He died 20 years ago, but while he is widely remembered as a brilliant communicator, he was no less brilliant a scientist
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Vera Rubin's Numbers
Evidence for dark matter is visible in this elegant set of simple charts, rooted in data published decades ago
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Vera Rubin Didn't Discover Dark Matter
She wasn't even convinced it existed
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