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The Harmful Effects of Overturning Roe v. Wade May 06, 2022

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A landmark study of women who were turned away from getting the procedure found that being forced to have a child worsened their health and economic status.

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Safer Indoor Air, and People Want Masks on Planes and Trains: COVID Quickly, Episode 29 May 02, 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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Climate Change Is Shrinking Animals, Especially Bird-Brained Birds Apr 25, 2022

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As the world warms, many animals are getting smaller. For birds, new research shows what they have upstairs may just make a different in how much smaller they get.

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Cosmic Simulation Shows How Dark-Matter-Deficient Galaxies Confront Goliath and Survive Apr 20, 2022

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A research team finds seven tiny dwarf galaxies stripped of their dark matter that nonetheless persisted despite the theft.

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Venturing Back to the Office and the Benefits of Hybrid Immunity: COVID Quickly, Episode 28 Apr 15, 2022

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Science Finally Has a Good Idea about Why We Stutter Apr 13, 2022

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A glitch in speech initiation gives rise to the repetition that characterizes stuttering.

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Love Computers? Love History? Listen to This Podcast Apr 12, 2022

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In the newest season of Lost Women of Science, we enter a world of secrecy, computers and nuclear weapons—and see how Klára Dán von Neumann was a part of all of it.

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Probiotics Could Help Save Overheated Corals Apr 08, 2022

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Think of the process as a kind of marine fecal transplant—except the restorative bacteria do not come from stool; they come from other corals.

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The History of the Milky Way Comes into Focus Apr 05, 2022

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By dating nearly a quarter-million stars, astronomers were able to reconstruct the history of our galaxy—and they say it has lived an “enormously sheltered life.”

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Second Boosters, Masks in the Next Wave and Smart Risk Decisions: COVID Quickly, Episode 27 Apr 01, 2022

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