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Can We Save the Woodrat without Slaughtering Cats?
In Key Largo, Fla., conservationists and feline lovers figure out how to get along
Why We Have So Many Problems with Our Teeth
Our choppers are crowded, crooked and riddled with cavities. It hasn’t always been this way
Exotic Creature in Antarctica Has Survived More than 30 Ice Ages
Its perseverance is rewriting the history of life, and of ice, across the continent
How Disaster Aid Ravaged an Island People
The 2004 tsunami devastated the Nicobar Islanders, but what came next was arguably worse
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Readers Respond to the December 2019 Issue
- Advances
Winged "PigeonBot" Flies with Real Feathers
Effective Psychological Therapy May Slow Cellular Aging
Livestock, Pets and People Will Dominate Future Fossils
New Bandage Repels Blood and Promotes Clotting
New Test Uses DNA Trap to Detect Dengue
Flexible Armor Inspired by Mollusks Better Defends Joints
Tiny, Shapeshifting Robots Could Aid Nanoscale Manufacturing
Undersea Telescopes Scan the Sky from Below
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Female Surgeons Are Treated Terribly
- The Science of Health
Sleep Apnea Is Different for Women
- The Science Agenda
The President Alone Should Not Be Able to Start a Nuclear War
- Recommended
Recommended Books, April 2020
- Anti Gravity
Rand Paul's Extraterrestrial Vision Makes Zero Sense
- 50, 100 & 150 Years Ago
50, 100 & 150 Years Ago: April 2020
- Graphic Science
Deaths of Young Children Are Decreasing Globally, But ...
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- Observatory
Why Do White Men and Scientists Tend to Downplay the Risks of Technology?
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Who's Brave Enough to Invest in Saving the Planet?
