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Gas Stove Pollution Lingers in Homes for Hours Even outside the Kitchen

4 hours 30 min ago

Gas stoves spew nitrogen dioxide at levels that frequently exceed those that are deemed safe by health organizations

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How Much Do Our Thoughts Shape Our Health?

8 hours 30 min ago

The way we think about time, aging and sickness may influence our health, behavior and general well-being in surprising ways

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Abortion Restrictions Are Spreading, even though Science Shows They’re Harmful

9 hours 13 sec ago

“We should not make it harder for people to access abortion,” says a researcher who has studied the impacts on people who seek the procedure and are denied

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How to Move the World’s Largest Camera from a California Lab to an Andes Mountaintop

9 hours 30 min ago

A multimillion-dollar digital camera could revolutionize astronomy. But first it needs to climb a mountain halfway around the globe

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Why Are We Still Superstitious?

10 hours 13 sec ago

Superstitions linger into the modern era, in part, because they may be holdovers from a time when they provided a measure of protection from predators and other mortal dangers

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See What Gives Sourdough Its Distinctive Taste and Smell

10 hours 30 min ago

You can thank yeast and bacteria cultivated over generations for the distinctive taste and smell of the oldest leavened bread in history

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The Unequal Burden of Early Dementia on Black Americans and How We Can Change It

11 hours 30 min ago

Black Americans face higher hurdles in diagnosis and treatment of frontotemporal dementia, the most common form of dementia for people under 60

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Where Does the Solar System End?

11 hours 45 min ago

The solar system’s outer limits aren’t as clear-cut as you might think

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Introducing Science Quickly’s New Host, Rachel Feltman

12 hours 30 min ago

Stay tuned for a new era of Science Quickly.

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The Science of ‘3 Body Problem’: What’s Fact and What’s Fiction?

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 1:00pm

The hit sci-fi show’s adviser and two other researchers discuss its portrayal of scientists and their technologies

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The Poetic Lives of Lost Women of Math and Science

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 12:30pm

When poet Jessy Randall saw that so many female scientists weren’t getting their due, she got mad. And then she decided to write poems for as many as she could

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Wild Orangutan Uses Herbal Medicine to Treat His Wound

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 11:00am

Researchers say this may be the first observation of a nonhuman animal purposefully treating a wound with a medicinal plant

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Collapsing Sheets of Spacetime Could Explain Dark Matter and Why the Universe ‘Hums’

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 10:00am

Domain walls, long a divisive topic in physics, may be ideal explanations for some bizarre cosmic quirks

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The Famine Developing in Gaza Follows a Clear Pattern

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 9:00am

Famine is affecting an increasing number of people in Gaza, Sudan, Haiti and elsewhere around the globe, and its development follows a clear pattern

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Is Sleeping on the Floor Good for Your Back?

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 8:00am

Scientific American asked experts whether sleeping on a hard surface is actually beneficial for back pain

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Here's What Universities Always Get Wrong about Student Protests

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 7:00am

Repression draws attention to campus protests, like those over the conflict in Gaza, and makes them grow

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AI Is Helping Referee Games in Major Sports Leagues, but Limitations Remain

Thu, 05/02/2024 - 6:45am

Basketball, baseball, tennis and soccer leagues are starting to use AI to help call the shots

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How Some Common Medications Can Make People More Vulnerable to Heat

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 4:00pm

As climate change brings more intense heat waves, scientists are trying to understand how certain medications interact with the body’s thermoregulation system

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3 Ways Scientific Thinking Could Help Save the World

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 10:00am

A physicist, a philosopher and a psychologist are working together to bring better, smarter decision-making to the masses

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Longest-Ever COVID Infection Lasted More Than 600 Days

Wed, 05/01/2024 - 9:30am

A Dutch man with lymphoma and other blood disorders was infected with the COVID-causing virus for nearly two years, during which time the pathogen evolved numerous mutations

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