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• From the Editor

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  Readers Respond to Mystery of the Hidden Cosmos

• Advances

  D.C. Set to Sink 6 Inches by 2100

• Self-Medicating Monkeys Gobble Painkilling Bark

• A Sooty North Pole Ahead

• In Case You Missed It: Scotland Bans GMOs, the FDA Mandates Calorie Counts for Cocktails and More!

• Thousands Hospitalized This Year Due to Fake Weed

• NASA Eyes Torpedo Tech as an Alternative to Nuclear Batteries

• A New Cook Arrives in Life's Kitchen

• Meet PlankZooka, the Deep-Sea Plankton Vacuum

• Astronomers May Have Witnessed 2 Black Hole Births

• This Bridge Opens and Closes Like a Japanese Folding Fan

• Forum

  How Doctors Can Confront Racial Bias in Medicine

• The Science of Health

  An Overreaction to Food Allergies

• The Science Agenda

  The U.S. Should Lead the World away from a Space War

• TechnoFiles

  Why Car Hacking Is Nearly Impossible

• Recommended

  Book Review: The Best American Infographics 2015

• Book Review: Black Man in a White Coat

• Book Review: Suspicious Minds

• Book Review: Dark Matter and the Dinosaurs

• Skeptic

  Did Humans Evolve to See Things as They Really Are?

• Anti Gravity

  Chimp Uses Branch to a Swat Drone out of the Air

• 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago

  Electricity in 1915: Transporting People and Finding Buried Bombs

• Graphic Science

  Invasive Plants Are Moving from the Northern Hemisphere South