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How Climate Change Is Leaving Some Species with ‘Nowhere Left to Go’

Fionna M. D. Samuels

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Evidence Shouldn’t Be Optional

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How Abortion Medications Differ from Plan B and Other Emergency Contraceptives

Tanya Lewis

Toxic Slime Contributed to Earth’s Worst Mass Extinction—And It’s Making a Comeback

Global warming fueled rampant overgrowth of microbes at the end of the Permian period. Such lethal blooms may be on the rise again

Chris Mays, Vivi Vajda and Stephen McLoughlin

Climate Change

How Climate Change Is Leaving Some Species with ‘Nowhere Left to Go’

Fionna M. D. Samuels

Politics

Evidence Shouldn’t Be Optional

The Editors | Opinion

Reproduction

How Abortion Medications Differ from Plan B and Other Emergency Contraceptives

Tanya Lewis

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Save the Climate by Improving Jobs

J. Mijin Cha

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What Is a Heat Dome?

William Gallus and The Conversation US

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African Wild Dogs Lose Pups to Climate Adaptation ‘Trap’

Daniel Cusick and E&E News

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A Single, Quick ‘Mindset’ Exercise Protects against Adolescent Stress

Lydia Denworth

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How Antarctic Krill Coordinate the Biggest Swarms in the World

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We Asked GPT-3 to Write an Academic Paper about Itself—Then We Tried to Get It Published

An artificially intelligent first author presents many ethical questions—and could upend the publishing process

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Particle Physics

How the Higgs Boson Ruined Peter Higgs’s Life

A new biography of the physicist and the particle he predicted reveals his disdain for the spotlight

Clara Moskowitz

Evidence Shouldn’t Be Optional

This Supreme Court often ignores science when handing down decisions, and it affects far too many lives

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Quantum Physics

10 Years after the Higgs, Physicists Are Optimistic for More Discoveries

The Large Hadron Collider recently reopened after upgrades and is ready to explore new territory

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Renewable Energy

Renewable Energy Is Surging, but Trouble Looms

The International Energy Agency projects that spending on renewables in 2022 will exceed the record $440 billion invested last year

Benjamin Storrow and E&E News

Why Social Media Makes People Unhappy—And Simple Ways to Fix It

Research suggests platform designs make us lose track of time spent on them and can heighten conflicts, and then we feel upset with ourselves

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This Pride Month discover the science supporting equality and antidiscrimination

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"The Talk": A New Documentary Short

"The Talk": A New Documentary Short

A group of teenagers in rural Utah are training to become sex educators so that they can teach their peers what they do not learn in the classroom

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Roe v. Wade Was Overturned: Here's How Your Phone Could Be Used to Spy on You

From figuring out how often you go to the bathroom to potentially being used to prosecute you, your trusty smartphone might not be so trusty in a post-Roe world.

June 24, 2022

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