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Public Health
Eradicating harmful species may have unintended consequences
12 hours ago — Richard Conniff
Engineering
Engineering
As automated delivery ramps up, cities must decide how to make the best use of public spaces
February 19, 2019 — Jeremy Hsu
Evolution
Evolution
The fossilized print, found in Gibraltar, is said to date to 28,000 years ago, which might mean it belonged to a Neandertal. But not everyone agrees with that interpretation
February 15, 2019 — Kate Wong
Medicine
Study shows the power of the “argument dilution effect”
7 hours ago — Niro Sivanathan and Hemant Kakkar
Public Health
Public Health
Eradicating harmful species may have unintended consequences
12 hours ago — Richard Conniff
Engineering
Engineering
As automated delivery ramps up, cities must decide how to make the best use of public spaces
February 19, 2019 — Jeremy Hsu
Evolution
Evolution
The fossilized print, found in Gibraltar, is said to date to 28,000 years ago, which might mean it belonged to a Neandertal. But not everyone agrees with that interpretation
February 15, 2019 — Kate Wong
Public Health
Public Health
Kent State epidemiologist Tara Smith talks about vaccines, recent preventable measles outbreaks and her 2017 journal article on vaccine rejection.
4 hours ago — Steve Mirsky
Wellness
Wellness
Before you set your fitness goals in stone, here are a few wishes from some fitness professionals that you may want to keep in mind
5 hours ago — Get-Fit Guy Brock Armstrong
Trump’s plan to end new HIV/AIDS diagnoses by 2030 misses a key element: prevention
7 hours ago — Kathryn Macapagal and Darnell Motley
Policy & Ethics
Policy & Ethics
Under the emergency declaration, some money to build the wall will come from a military construction account
8 hours ago — Scott Waldman and E&E News
Medical & Biotech
Medical & Biotech
Plasma from young people offers “no proven clinical benefit” as a treatment against aging or Alzheimer’s disease, the agency says
8 hours ago — Rebecca Robbins and STAT
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Most Popular Building solar, wind, natural gas and water infrastructure all along the U.S.–Mexico border would create economic opportunity rather than antagonism
February 14, 2019 — Mark Fischetti
A Valentine’s Day meditation on why bright women sometimes gravitate to not-so-bright men
February 14, 2019 — R. Douglas Fields
We need to tread lightly if we encounter alien ecosystems
February 15, 2019 — Abraham Loeb
When our planet’s magnetosphere nearly disappeared 565 million years ago, it may have almost taken all life with it
February 15, 2019 — Jim Daley
New research suggests both liberals and conservatives are motivated to believe fake news, and dismiss real news that contradicts their ideologies
February 14, 2019 — Scott Barry Kaufman
Scientists have discovered the culprit: how the sun squeezes Earth’s magnetic tail
February 13, 2019 — Katherine Wright
Special Report Computing
Berlin conference spotlights world-shaping science
November 8, 2018
Videos Social insects such as ants and bees often have complex societies, but understanding the genetics behind their social interactions can be difficult due to their complex lifecycles. This lab in New York hopes to investigate the genetics of ant social behavior by focusing on an unusual species: the clonal raider ant...
February 19, 2019
Chemistry
January 29, 2019
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