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After Brewing Beer, Yeast Can Help Recycle Metals from E-waste

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

This beer-making by-product could offer a sustainable way to isolate metals for recycling electronic waste

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We Learn and Make Connections Better When Information Comes from People We Like

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

The way we’re “wired” to learn may divide us

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Why Insects Are Lured to Lights in the Night

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Moths and other insects aren’t drawn to nighttime illumination for the reasons we think they are

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Adolescent Anxiety Is Hard to Treat. New Drug-Free Approaches May Help

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Research on the developing brain points to new ways to help young people with anxiety disorders

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Contributors to Scientific American’s June 2024 Issue

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Writers, artists, photographers and researchers share the stories behind the stories

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Is Cold-Water Swimming Good for You?

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Though sometimes overstated, the benefits of cold-water swimming are slowly becoming clearer

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Humans Are Driving a New Kind of Evolution in Animals

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Anthropogenic evolution is affecting species across the planet

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Poem: ‘Chrysalis’

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Science in meter and verse

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Grizzly Bears Will Finally Return to Washington State. Humans Aren’t Sure How to Greet Them

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

After decades of debate, grizzlies will be reintroduced to the North Cascades

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Stolen Bacterial Genes Helped Whiteflies to Become the Ultimate Pests

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Rather than relying on bacteria, whiteflies cut out the middleman and acquired their own genes to process nitrogen

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Patients Fare Better When They Get Palliative Care Sooner, Not Later

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Supportive care is often started late in an illness, but that may not be the best way

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Book Review: Rats, Gardens, and Stories from a "Post-Impact" Future

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Rats as you’ve never seen them; the journey of restoring a garden; stories from a “post-Impact” future

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June 2024: Science History from 50, 100 and 150 Years Ago

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Walking barefoot on hot stones; what makes bluebirds blue

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Children Deserve Uniform Standards in Homeschooling

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

With few states tracking who is being homeschooled and what they are learning, an untold number of U.S. children are at risk of a poor education or even abuse

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RNA, Grizzly Bears and Anxiety Treatments Show That Science Is Never Done

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Explore the new science of weird chemistry, anthropogenic evolution and near-death experiences

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An Autonomous Logging Machine Could Make Forestry Safer

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Forestry is deadly. Could automating some logging tasks help?

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Belugas Flirt and Fight by Morphing Their Squishy Forehead

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Scientists are putting together a catalog of communications from belugas’ forehead “melon”

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Like-Charge Particles Are Supposed to Repel—But Sometimes They Attract

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 9:00am

Scientists think they’ve cracked the long-standing mystery of attraction among particles with a similar charge

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How ‘Digital Twin’ Technology Harnesses Biology and Computing to Power Personalized Medicine

Tue, 05/14/2024 - 7:00am

We face a moment of opportunity—and competition—in bringing digital twin technology to patients

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Record-Breaking Ocean Heat Wave Foreshadows a Dangerous Hurricane Season

Mon, 05/13/2024 - 2:00pm

An active hurricane season could be in store because of ocean temperatures in the North Atlantic that broke records for more than a year

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