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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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Healing the Wounds of War, 1916
Reported in Scientific American, this Week in World War I: February 19, 1916
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Contemplating a Statinlike Drug to Prevent Alzheimer's
A Cambridge-led research team invents a method to look for drugs that could stop the leading cause of dementia at its earliest stages
The Artful Amoeba
Sleeping Sickness Parasite Secretes Strange String of Beads [Video]
A sinister string of beads made by the organisms that cause sleeping sickness helps the parasite both elude our defenses and make us sick
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How Your Gut Affects Your Bones
The surprising new science of how intestinal bacteria control bone strength
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What Does "Dead" Mean?
It should be obvious, but death has more than one definition
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Americans Are Living Longer, Thanks to the Clean Air Act
Americans have gained 336 million life-years since the Clean Air Act was passed in 1970, according to researchers at the University of Chicago
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Preventing the Next Ebola Epidemic
To avoid another disaster, we need to think both inside and outside the box
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What's the Biggest Science News? We're Still Human, for Ill or Good
In spite of countless prophesies that science is about to transform our bodies and minds, we humans remain stubbornly resistant to change
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Trump's Muslim-Bashing and Hillary Clinton's Hypocrisy
Clinton has accused Trump of aiding ISIS recruitment, but she has also contributed to the problem of Muslim militancy.
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Kinesins and Dyneins Strut Down Microtubules
Famed animator Drew Berry combines data from electron microscopes and other instruments to show us what we cannot see with any other single technique...
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