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America’s ambivalence about race is seeping into science
Is race a cloudy lens to view genetics? Often we think research and medicine are above the fray, but in an election year, hot-butt ...
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Why Sputnik’s signal still reverberates in U.S. classrooms
Sputnik, circling the globe, seemed a constant, twinkling reminder that Americans were falling behind in science, destined to lose the sp ...
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Keeping your cool in political arguments means reaching common ground
Here’s how political conversations seem to unfold online these days; either we agree, and all is well, or, if we disagree, things q ...
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Castle Valley Mill, A Tour of Abolitionism in Philadelphia, Atlas Obscura at Mount Moriah
Castle Valley Mill Producer: Monica Rogozinski Nestled on the banks of Neshaminy Creek in hi ...
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Community and mentorship encourage female dominance in forensics
Unlike most STEM fields, forensic science is dominated by women, not men. And Antoinette Thwaites, a forensic scientist for the City of P ...
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A kinder, gentler voting system offers relief from campaign hostility
As more and more Americans seem to be disgusted with the two major political parties, there’s a growing call for a viable third par ...
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One in four physicians didn’t vote in all of the last three presidential elections. So, what’s their excuse? People in ...
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A century after the first birth control clinic opened, controversy remains
Margaret Sanger opened a storefront clinic in 1916, sparking the battleground over women’s reproductive rights. Brownsville, ...
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Age-old therapy new again as medicinal leeches are back in demand
If you want to portray the primitive nature of medical science from a few centuries ago, you’d have awful things in your toolkit ...
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Singing tunnels? Jam session between man and architecture
With the help of some microphones, speakers, and computers, five pedestrian tunnels in Stockholm, Sweden can harmonize with humans in the ...
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How climate change is affecting space race
Part of NASA’s mission is to find new real estate, so to speak, in space – places for humans to eventually colonize and sprea ...
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What can a whale’s baleen tell us about climate change?
Whale baleen is one of the most remarkable anatomical traits Northern Arizona University Endocrinologist Kathleen Hunt has ever worked wi ...
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The anthropocene: Geologists take up the question of a new epoch
Hermann Pfefferkorn’s office, at the University of Pennsylvania, spills across a large, well-lit room that seems to have closed in on i ...
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Gerrick Reidenbach can’t smell his cat
A skateboarding slam left Gerrick without a sense of smell, and his memories of the scents he loved are fading. At one time or ano ...
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