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Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

2 hours ago — Michael Tabb, Andrea Gawrylewski, Jeffery DelViscio and Macarena Carrizosa

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The Supreme Court’s Assault on Science

May 24, 2021 — Daniel Weinberger | Opinion

Biology

Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World

May 18, 2021 — Maryn McKenna

Our Memory Is Even Better Than Experts Thought

In some respects, memory is poor. In others, it is astonishingly good

4 hours ago — Nicole C. Rust

Space

Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

2 hours ago — Michael Tabb, Andrea Gawrylewski, Jeffery DelViscio and Macarena Carrizosa

Policy & Ethics

Policy & Ethics

The Supreme Court’s Assault on Science

May 24, 2021 — Daniel Weinberger | Opinion

Biology

Deadly Fungi Are the Newest Emerging Microbe Threat All Over the World

May 18, 2021 — Maryn McKenna

Environment

Greenland Glaciers May Be Leaking Mercury

19 minutes ago — Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

Neuroscience

Injection of Light-Sensitive Proteins Restores Blind Man’s Vision

1 hour ago — Sara Reardon and Nature Medicine

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How COVID Changed Science

1 hour ago — William A. Haseltine | Opinion

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The Subatomic Keys to the Universe

3 hours ago — Andrea Gawrylewski

Conservation

De-Ratting Rat Island Brought Silent Ecosystem Back to Life

6 hours ago — Rachel Nuwer

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Wormhole Tunnels in Spacetime May Be Possible, New Research Suggests

There may be realistic ways to create cosmic bridges predicted by general relativity

May 20, 2021 — Brendan Z. Foster

How Scientific American’s Staff Is Reacting to the CDC’s New Mask Guidance

We asked our vaccinated colleagues whether they planned on keeping their masks on or not—and why

May 19, 2021 — THE EDITORS | Opinion

Mix-and-Match COVID Vaccines Trigger Potent Immune Response

Preliminary results from a trial of more than 600 people are the first to show the benefits of combining different vaccines

May 21, 2021 — Ewen Callaway and Nature magazine

World’s Largest Iceberg Breaks Off of Antarctica

The chunk of ice is larger than the state of Rhode Island

May 20, 2021 — Ben Turner and LiveScience

Policy & Ethics

When Scientific Orthodoxy Resembles Religious Dogma

Those who refuse to consider an unconventional idea in science are disturbingly similar to those who refused to look through Galileo’s telescope

May 17, 2021 — Avi Loeb | Opinion

Yellowstone Is Warming at Its Fastest Rate in 1,250 Years

The summer of 2016 was the hottest in the nation’s first and oldest national park since 770

22 hours ago — Chelsea Harvey and E&E News

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The Black Lives Matter Movement

The Black Lives Matter Movement

Policy & Ethics

What began as a call to action in response to police violence and anti-Black racism in the U.S. is now a global initiative to confront racial inequities in society, including environmental injustice, bias in academia and the public health threat of racism.

February 2, 2021

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Halley's Comet Can Teach Us a Lot About Uncertain Times

Halley's Comet Can Teach Us a Lot About Uncertain Times

The work of decoding the cosmic traveler has surprising relevance right now

By Henry DaCosta, Mitch Myers and Jeffery DelViscio

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Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

The mysteries packed inside these invisible space objects stretch our concepts of space and time

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Decoded: What Is a Virus, Exactly?

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Decoded: How Do Vaccines Actually Work?

April 29, 2021

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Nature Can Help Us Prepare for the Next Pandemic

April 8, 2021

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Experience Seven Minutes of Terror in New Perseverance Mars Rover Landing Video

February 22, 2021

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 7: The Coming Pandemic Grief Wave, and Mask Whiplash

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