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Australia's Plague of Mice Is Devastating and Could Get a Lot Worse

Tess Joosse

Environment

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

Chirag Dhara and Vandana Singh | Opinion

Public Health

New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World

Charles Schmidt

Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here

But if so, it’s probably in the form of robotic probes—something both UFO enthusiasts and SETI scientists should be able to agree on

John Gertz | Opinion

Environment

Australia's Plague of Mice Is Devastating and Could Get a Lot Worse

Tess Joosse

Environment

The Delusion of Infinite Economic Growth

Chirag Dhara and Vandana Singh | Opinion

Public Health

New Coronavirus Variants Are Urgently Being Tracked around the World

Charles Schmidt

Conservation

The Tragedy of the White Tiger

Azzedine Downes | Opinion

Public Health

Children’s Birthdays May Have Spread COVID Infections

Rachel Nuwer

Energy

Hybrid Energy Production Gets A Serious Look

John Fialka and E&E News

Policy & Ethics

Policy & Ethics

Some Medical Examiners Say Sickle Cell Trait Causes Sudden Death—They’re Wrong

A. Kyle Mack, Rachel S. Bercovitz and Hannah Lust | Opinion

Behavior & Society

Behavior & Society

How End-of-Life Doulas Help Ease the Final Transition

Virginia Chang | Opinion

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Psychiatry Needs to Get Right with God

By not making more of an effort to incorporate spirituality in treatment, we are doing a disservice to patients

David H. Rosmarin

Experts Weigh In on Pentagon UFO Report

The vast majority of examined incidents were not caused by U.S. advanced technology programs, the forthcoming report concludes. So what’s going on?

A Modest Proposal: Let’s Change Earth’s Orbit

What’s the worst that could happen?

Searching for City Lights on Other Planets

There’s a detectable difference between a planet shining with reflected light and a planet glowing with its own artificial illumination

Avi Loeb | Opinion

Maybe the Aliens Really Are Here

But if so, it’s probably in the form of robotic probes—something both UFO enthusiasts and SETI scientists should be able to agree on

John Gertz | Opinion

Neurological Health

Could Mitochondria Be the Key to a Healthy Brain?

Some researchers suspect these bacterial ancestors living within our cells may contribute to a wide range of neurological and psychiatric disorders

Diana Kwon and Knowable Magazine

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Sexuality, Gender and Justice

Sexuality, Gender and Justice

Policy & Ethics

This Pride Month, discover the science supporting equality and antidiscrimination

June 1, 2021

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Videos

Decoded: What Are Neurons?

You have 86 billion of them inside you, but do you understand how hard it was for us to learn that?

June 8, 2021

Evolution

At the Bottom of Lake Huron, an Ancient Mystery Materializes

June 1, 2021

Space

Decoded: What Are Black Holes?

May 25, 2021

Public Health

Decoded: What Is a Virus, Exactly?

May 12, 2021

Public Health

Decoded: How Do Vaccines Actually Work?

April 29, 2021

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 9: Delta Variant, Global Vaccine Shortfalls, Beers for Shots

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