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East of Siberia: An Osprey, Until It Wasn't
A wounded bird survives a broken wing—and then survives the well-meaning ministrations of humans
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A New Air Pollution Database Is Good, but Imperfect
WHO's most recent atlas of air quality leaves significant gaps in coverage
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Reasoned Discourse as a Vital 21st-Century Skill
It's pretty much vanished from politics, but it's crucial to the future of society—and it can be taught
Public Health
The Real Cause of Deadly Medical Errors
Individuals do make lethal mistakes, but the main reason for preventable medical mistakes is a health care system inadequate to the complexities of 21st-century medicine
Space & Physics
Space Technology Can Help Sustain Earth
Satellite imagery and communication are powerful aids in confronting humanitarian and environmental issues
Conservation
Why Was Harambe the Gorilla in a Zoo in the First Place?
Amid the debate over who was at fault in the death of a beloved animal, we need to step back and ask a different question
Space & Physics
Why It's Okay to Teach Wrong Ideas in Physics
The story of how Niels Bohr got the structure of the atom wrong, and how that was corrected, tells us a lot about how science works
Energy
Poo-to-Power Breakthrough Appears in China
An innovative plant turns sewage sludge into energy
Public Health
It's Premature to Conclude That Cell Phones Cause Cancer in Humans
The recent preliminary results from a study by the National Toxicology Program have serious limitations and uncertainties
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Can DNA Ancestry Testing Make You More Racist?
Newly published research suggests that the answer is yes
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