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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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How Is Creativity Differentially Related to Schizophrenia and Autism?
Autism and schizophrenia are related to different forms of creativity
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The Pluto Punch-Through
On July 14, 2015, NASA's New Horizons spacecraft finally reaches Pluto. But the encounter will be brief
Cocktail Party Physics
Physics Week in Review: June 6, 2015
Pluto's moons tumble in order, celebrating 20 years of Bose-Einstein condensates, and insight into the Coriolis effect are among this week's physics highlights.
Cross-Check
Book by Biologist Jerry Coyne Goes Too Far in Denouncing Religion, Defending Science
John Horgan critiques biologist Jerry Coyne's new book Faith vs. Fact: Why Science and Religion Are Incompatible.
Life, Unbounded
1,776 Portraits of a Comet
A stunning library of comet close-ups
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Black Hole "Blazars" Reveal Hidden Side of the Universe [Video]
The bright lights from these hungry black holes revealed a subtle background field
Expeditions
The Richest Reef: Deep Diving into the Twilight Zone
A team of deep divers plunges into the “twilight zone,” a little-explored region of depth between 200 and 500 feet below the surface, with two goals: "catch fish" and "stay alive"...
Life, Unbounded
Crazy, Wonderful, Spacecraft Orbits
Over the years humans have deployed spacecraft into some wild, wacky, and extremely clever orbital configurations to better study the cosmos.
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Physics Week in Review: May 23, 2015
Laser-etched logrithmic spirals, light bulb physics, and the fractal nature of urban growth are among this week's physics highlights.
Dark Star Diaries
Finding "Fringes": New Event Horizon Telescope Detections Start Trickling In
The technique that the astronomers of the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) use to observe black holes is called Very Long Baseline Interferometry, or VLBI, but it might as well be called Extremely Delayed Gratification Astronomy: it can take weeks or months after an observing run to find out whether the telescope array actually saw anything...
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