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Masks and Emasculation: Why Some Men Refuse to Take Safety Precautions
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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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NASA Interns Are Really, Really Excited about Their Work [Video]
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Everything You Wanted to Know about This Year's Nobel Prizes, but Might Have Missed
The winning science of weird materials, nanoscale cars and self-eating cells
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Will Elon Musk Scuttle the Search for Life on Mars?
If there is life on the Red Planet—even just alien microbes clinging to existence in isolated refuges—any biological contamination we import from Earth could cause an ecological and scientific catastrophe...
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A Trippy Cosmic History Lesson: SA Editors Discuss Terrence Malick’s “Voyage of Time”
Part science documentary, part meditation on the meaning of life, director Terrence Malik’s (“The Tree of Life,” “The Thin Red Line”) new IMAX movie “Voyage of Time” is hard to categorize...
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More Evidence for an Ocean inside Pluto
A simulation of Sputnik Planum's formation supports the idea of a deep, salty ocean
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So You Want to Terraform Mars?
The SpaceX vision for a multiplanet species prompts thinking on how to make a planet more habitable
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Do Dolphins Dream of Space Travel?
Little red stars pose big questions in the search for intelligent life
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Breaking Up Is What You Do (When You're a Comet)
Hubble Space Telescope catches the details of a complex cometary breakup as it approaches the sun
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My Bunk-Bashing Diatribe at a Deepak Chopra Conference
A skeptical science writer critiques strings, multiverses, meditation, the Singularity and “neo-geocentrism.”
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Rocket Launches Are Actually Surprisingly Successful
The recent SpaceX launchpad explosion is a reminder that rocketry is tricky, but also remarkable for accomplishing as much as it does
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