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Female CEOs Change How Firms Talk about Women Jun 16, 2022

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Appointing women to leadership positions renders organizations more likely to describe all women as being powerful, persistent and bold.

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COVID Death Rates Explained, Dismal Booster Stats and New Vaccines Jun 13, 2022

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On this episode of the COVID, Quickly podcast, we clear up some data misconceptions, get to the bottom of the booster uptake issue and talk Novavax.

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Hedgehogs Host the Evolution of Antibiotic Resistance Jun 08, 2022

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Bacteria resistant to methicillin emerged in hedgehogs long before the drug was prescribed to treat infections.

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Meerkats Are Getting Climate Sick Jun 03, 2022

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For meerkats in the Kalahari Desert, rising temperatures spark deadly outbreaks of tuberculosis.

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'Where Are Vaccines for Little Kids?' and the Latest on Long COVID May 31, 2022

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Today we bring you a new episode in our podcast series COVID, Quickly. Every two weeks, Scientific American’s senior health editors Tanya Lewis and Josh Fischman catch you up on the essential developments in the pandemic: from vaccines to new variants and everything in between.

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Your Phone Could Be Used to Prosecute for Getting an Abortion: Here's How May 20, 2022

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Technology editor Sophie Bushwick breaks down the precedent for using your phone to monitor personal health data.

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If Sea Ice Melts in the Arctic, Do Trees Burn in California? May 19, 2022

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A new study links sea ice decline with increasing wildfire weather in the Western U.S.

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How to Care for COVID at Home, and Is That Sniffle Allergies or the Virus? COVID Quickly, Episode 30 May 16, 2022

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How Astronomers Finally Captured a Photo of our Own Galaxy's Black Hole May 12, 2022

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It took hundreds of researchers and many telescopes to capture an image of the black hole at the middle of our Milky Way.

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Two-Headed Worms Tell Us Something Fascinating about Evolution May 10, 2022

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Researchers looked back at more than 100 years of research and found that a fascination with annelids with mixed up appendages was strong—and that research still has relevance today.

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