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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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Computing
9 Bizarre and Surprising Insights from Data Science
The petabytes of information currently available to analysts amounts to a boundless playing field of possible truths
Public Health
Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria and the World's Peril
The U.N. General Assembly is taking on a danger that threatens the health of our entire species
Policy
Can CRISPR–Cas9 Boost Intelligence?
Not now, certainly, but maybe someday—although there are plenty of hurdles to overcome first
Aerospace
Air Traffic Control without Towers
Virtual towers located miles away from airports would be far more cost-efficient and—in principle, at least—just as safe
Policy
Making Human Hamburgers: Bioethics and the Yuck Factor
It's not measurable and it's not always reliable, but a feeling of disgust can be a guide to what's ethical and what's not
Public Health
New Hope in the Fight against Antimicrobial Resistance
A U.N. conference could lead to major steps in addressing this growing public health crisis
Neuroscience
How the Brain Decodes Sentences
New research advances neuroscientists' understanding of the complexities of language processing
Evolution
The Fossil That Rewrote Human Prehistory
Exactly 80 years ago, paleontologists found the first solid evidence that the human lineage arose in Africa
Public Health
There's Plenty Americans Still Don't Know about Zika
A new survey shows they know it's transmitted by mosquitoes, for example, but not that it can be passed sexually, or that you can be infected without symptoms
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Everything you always wanted to know about raising science-literate kids
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A Blog About the Weird Wonderfulness of Life on Earth
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Exploring and celebrating diversity in science.
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