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How the Omicron Variant Got So Many Scary Mutations So Quickly

Sarah Wild

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Planetary Science

Heavy Metal Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star

Jonathan O'Callaghan

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Nonfiction Is Cool, and Our Kids Know It

Amanda Baker | Opinion

Pompeii’s Ruins to Be Reconstructed by Robot

An ambitious project is underway to develop a robot with enough smarts, strength and sensitivity to restore fragmented archaeological remains

Jen Pinkowski

Epidemiology

How the Omicron Variant Got So Many Scary Mutations So Quickly

Sarah Wild

Planetary Science

Planetary Science

Heavy Metal Exoplanet Found Orbiting Nearby Star

Jonathan O'Callaghan

Culture

Nonfiction Is Cool, and Our Kids Know It

Amanda Baker | Opinion

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Texas Toughens Ban on Medication-by-Mail Abortions

Ashley Lopez and Kaiser Health News

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New Clues Emerge on Antarctic Ocean Climate Riddle

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

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The Ups and Downs of a Great Vertical Migration

Hannah Seo and Knowable Magazine

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50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: December 2021

Mark Fischetti

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As Arctic Sea Ice Melts, Killer Whales Are Moving In

Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

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Humans Are Doomed to Go Extinct

Habitat degradation, low genetic variation and declining fertility are setting Homo sapiens up for collapse

Henry Gee | Opinion

How Brains Seamlessly Switch Between Languages

Bilingual people engage the same brain region that monolingual individuals use to put together words—even when combining different languages

Daisy Yuhas | Opinion

COVID Can Cause Strange Eye and Ear Symptoms

From conjunctivitis to vertigo, coronavirus infections can affect disparate senses

The Benefits of Vaccinating Kids against COVID Far Outweigh the Risks of Myocarditis

Vaccination is likely to prevent many more COVID cases than it is to cause a rare and nonfatal heart side effect in five- to 11-year-olds

How the Omicron Variant Got So Many Scary Mutations So Quickly

The numerous changes in the coronavirus’s spike protein could have arisen in an isolated population or an immunocompromised person—or animals

Redo of a Famous Experiment on the Origins of Life Reveals Critical Detail Missed for Decades

The Miller-Urey experiment showed that the conditions of early Earth could be simulated in a glass flask. New research finds the flask itself played an underappreciated, though outsize, role...

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Black innovators and leaders discuss career paths, mentorship and diversity in science. This speaker series is hosted by the Black Employee Network at Springer Nature, the publisher of Scientific American

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What Is a Smart Grid, and How Might One Protect Our Energy Future?

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