Science
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AI Needs Rules, but Who Will Get to Make Them?
About 150 government and industry leaders from around the world, including Vice President Kamala Harris and billionaire Elon Musk, descended…
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Cannibalistic Dads May Be Contributing to Hellbender Salamander Declines
Male hellbender salamanders usually make doting dads, guarding eggs and shaking them free of silt. But in some troubled populations,…
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What Went Wrong with a Highly Publicized COVID Mask Analysis?
The COVID-19 pandemic is ongoing, but in May officials ended its designation as a public health emergency. So it’s now…
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We Need to Think about Conservation on a Different Timescale
Time is one of humanity’s greatest blind spots. We experience it as days, months, or years. But nature functions on…
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Climate Disasters Displaced 43 Million Children in Just Six Years
CLIMATEWIRE | Extreme weather events and climate disasters displaced more than 43 million children around the globe between 2016 and 2021,…
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History: October 2023 – Scientific American
1973 Craters on Venus “Venus is pocked with craters. This fact emerges from studies in which short radio waves were…
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OSIRIS-REx’s Asteroid Samples Are Finally Down to Earth
UTAH TEST AND TRAINING RANGE–Yes, it came from outer space. An extraterrestrial express delivery package from afar has landed safe…
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Climate Change Is Hindering Global Growth and Prosperity, U.N. Says
CLIMATEWIRE | Climate change is undermining efforts to address hunger, health and other sustainable development targets — including the transition to…
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Large Herbivores Can Help Prevent Massive Wildfires
In 2019 and 2020, a megafire scorched eastern Australia, destroying some 24 million hectares of land, and adding to the…
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English May Be Science’s Native Language, but It’s Not Native to All Scientists
When I (Nakamura) first arrived in the U.S. for a postdoctoral fellowship, the anxiety of speaking English struck the first…
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