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It’s a major public health issue, and discussing it should part of routine care, no different than questions about health risk factors like smoking, substance use and diet
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It’s hard to say at this point, but a crucial first step is to establish whether they exist so any future arrival won’t come as a complete surprise
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For the first time, a randomized controlled trial shows the psychedelic offers potent, if short-term, relief in comparison with an SSRI
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Despite promising technology demonstrations, there is no one-size-fits-all solution for the growing problem of taking out the orbital trash
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The legislation could incentivize greener investments by requiring companies to report the risks that climate poses to their business
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Achieving better, more equitable treatments requires looking at multiple factors that affect populations differently, including genetic variations
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An infectious disease doctor answers questions about the CDC’s and FDA’s decision to pause the vaccine’s use over a possible link with blood clots
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The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it’s going next
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The interplanetary aircraft will launch no earlier than next week due to glitches in its flight-control software
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The reasons may include women’s roles as caregivers and their greater likelihood of seeking out preventive health care in general
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It’s been 60 years, to the day, since Russian cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin was the first human to travel to space in a tiny capsule attached to an R-7 ballistic missile, a powerful rocket originally...
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The anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historic voyage to orbit is a chance to reflect on how far human spaceflight has come—and where it’s going next
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Researchers are searching for possible links between unusual clotting and the Oxford-AstraZeneca coronavirus vaccine
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A fast-growing front in the battle against climate change is focused on developing green technologies aimed at reducing humankind’s carbon footprint, but many scientists say simply reducing...
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Despite what we see in the headlines, the data-driven optimist thinks we should be grateful to live in the best era in humanity’s long, troubled history
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Climate change and other environmental threats are destabilizing these vital areas and helping drive mass northward migration
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Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a...
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Today we bring you the fourth episode in a new podcast series: COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya...
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Billions of emerging insects will likely trigger predator population surges—but some species mysteriously opt out of such bounties
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Following Hurricane Maria, a Puerto Rican colony of rhesus macaques broadened their social networks. Could humans do the same post-COVID?
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One of the country’s top epidemiologists explains how population-wide use of rapid antigen tests—in combination with other measures—helped get its outbreak under control
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In March 2020, Ruth DeFries finished a manuscript more than five years in the making. It turned out to be both prescient and prophetic. In this document, the Columbia University professor argued that...
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Scientists have known for decades that oyster mushrooms feasted on roundworms—and they’ve finally figured out how their toxins work
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From more than 1,000 proposals, the scientists that hoped to perform the observatory’s historic first studies now know their fate
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The discrepancy between the theoretical prediction and the experimentally determined value of the muon's magnetic moment has become slightly stronger with a new result from Fermilab. But what does it...
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People often limit their creativity by continually adding new features to a design rather than removing existing ones
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Initial data from the Muon g-2 experiment have excited particle physicists searching for undiscovered subatomic particles and forces
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Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year
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But some health experts say people of color still need improved access to vaccination sites, along with more information
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He was an important physicist, but the press and the public saw him as a prophet—and he didn’t go out of his way to discourage them
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Former CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes in a lab leak—but offers no evidence. The odds are against his notion
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A World Health Organization report makes a reasonable start, scientists say, but there are many questions yet to be answered
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The U.S. can rebuild its role in the global health landscape on the basis of equitable policies rather than exploitative ones
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Pulmonary fibrosis is diagnosed in about 50,000 new patients annually, and as many as 40,000 Americans die from it each year
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Here is our next installment of a new pop-up podcast miniseries that takes your ears into the deep sound of nature. Host Jacob Job, an ecologist and audiophile, brings you inches away from a...
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The pandemic has spotlighted ways to make clinical trials easier on patients and better for science, a heart drug researcher says
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Former CDC director Robert Redfield says he believes in a lab leak—but offers no evidence. The odds are against his notion
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The first powered atmospheric flight on another planet will honor its roots with a payload drawn from the dawn of aviation itself
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Celeste Warren of drug manufacturer Merck discusses diversity in science and medicine and the journey of rising up in the ranks of a major multinational company
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A program called Wheels of Change pays unsheltered people to pick up trash or otherwise help clean up their community—and it can turn their lives around
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Fossilized pollen and leaves reveal that the meteorite that caused the extinction of nonavian dinosaurs also reshaped South America’s plant communities to yield the planet’s largest rain...
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It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease
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Scientists say the conclusions make sense but note that supporters of the lab-leak theory are unlikely to be satisfied
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An assessment of games before and during the pandemic suggests that teams play better on their own turf even without crowd support
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It’s understandable that Black Americans are wary of vaccines, but that despicable episode involved the withholding of treatment, whereas vaccines actively prevent disease
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We know a lot about how sea turtles are threatened by our trash, but new research has just uncovered an underreported threat hiding inside lakes and rivers.
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These insects are lovely, but despite what many think, they aren't significant contributors to pollinating agriculturally important plants
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A result that has been 20 years in the making could reveal the existence of new particles, and upend fundamental physics
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