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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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Eye of the Storm
November 2019: Earth’s Second Warmest November on Record
The year 2019 is very likely to be Earth’s second warmest on record, behind 2016
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How Do You Save an Endangered Tree from Extinction When You Can’t Save Its Seeds?
“Recalcitrant” seeds hold the secret to saving a critically endangered Indian tree—thanks to a bit of human help
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Can Philosophy Make You Happy?
Philosopher Catherine Wilson thinks the ancient sage Epicurus can provide guidance for our modern scientific age...
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Marketing Health Care Services to Older People Is Tricky
They have plenty of physical challenges but don’t like think of themselves as being in decline
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What Climate Change Tells Us about Being Human
The crisis requires us to face hard limits set by nature while also reimagining the stories we tell ourselves
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We Need an International Center for Climate Modeling
Those in the science community must join forces to provide the most accurate long-term predictions and make their results publicly accessible
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A Tale of Three Nobels
It’s unfortunate that some of the most exciting frontiers in modern astrophysics were initially ridiculed as a waste of time
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Introducing the January 2020 Issue
Scientific American kicks off its 175th anniversary year
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The Carbon Dioxide We Dump into the Sky Is Just Another Kind of Garbage
We should clean it up as we do ordinary trash—and it wouldn’t cost much more
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Scientists on the Move
They’re willing to relocate for the best opportunities—and North America is where international researchers would most like to go
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