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Abortion Restrictions Could Cause an Ob-Gyn Brain Drain

Monique Brouillette

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How Parents’ Trauma Leaves Biological Traces in Children

Rachel Yehuda

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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom

Katie Worth

The Supreme Court’s Latest Decision Is a Blow to Stopping Climate Change

By deciding in favor of fossil-fuel interests and limited regulatory authority, the Court has hampered the EPA’s ability to mitigate power-plant carbon pollution

Rachel Cleetus | Opinion

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Abortion Restrictions Could Cause an Ob-Gyn Brain Drain

Monique Brouillette

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Rachel Yehuda

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Subverting Climate Science in the Classroom

Katie Worth

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Mathematicians Are Trying to ‘Hear’ Shapes—And Reach Higher Dimensions

Rachel Crowell

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Bigger Floods Endanger Millions Living in Extreme Poverty

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Our Environmental Crisis Requires Political Fixes, Not Technological Ones

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The Supreme Court Could Block Climate Change Protections

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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.

Sophie Bushwick, Tulika Bose and Michael Tabb

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Controversy Grows Over whether Mars Samples Endanger Earth

Planetary scientists are eager to bring Red Planet rocks, soil and even air to Earth, but critics fear the risk of contaminating our world’s biosphere

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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

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How Abortion Misinformation and Disinformation Spread Online

With reproductive rights being dismantled, social media companies need to stop propagating lies

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Images from Japan’s Himawari-8 spacecraft shed light on the red supergiant star’s remarkable fading

Allison Gasparini

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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