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Era of the Body Snatchers
In New York in the early 1900s, race and poverty intersected to help determine whose cadavers ended up on med students’ dissecting tables
Urgent Climate Action Could Prevent Many Heat-Related Deaths
Extreme hot temperatures will kill thousands in major U.S. cities unless new policies manage to limit warming
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A new idea in the quest to find life beyond Earth
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It’s a mélange of chemistry, neuroscience and evolutionary biology, flavored with a big dollop of regional pride
The Electronic Paternity Test and Other Follies
A spate of “scientific” assays invented in the 1920s and 1930s were bogus—but they tell us a lot about the role of genetics in society, both then and now
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Birds are living dinosaurs, but can they help us understand how their extinct relatives moved?
The Death of Astronomy?
Probably not, but forthcoming commercial satellite constellations herald a new era for our night skies
Why Peru's M8 Earthquake Was Damaging but Not Catastrophic
Not all magnitude 8 earthquakes are created equal. Find out what separates merely devastating from completely catastrophic
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