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New Research Decodes the Sea Cow's Hidden Language Mar 30, 2022

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Florida manatees are “talking” up a storm, and a team that has been recording those sounds for seven years is starting to understand the chatter.

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Does This Look like a Face to You? Mar 25, 2022

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Science—and experience—show that we most definitely see faces in inanimate objects. But new research finds that, more often than not, we perceive those illusory faces as male.

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Some Good News about Corals and Climate Change Mar 23, 2022

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A nearly two-year-long study of Hawaiian corals suggests some species may be better equipped to handle warmer, more acidic waters than previously believed.

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Florida Gets Kids and Vaccines Wrong and Ukraine's Health Crisis: COVID Quickly, Episode 26 Mar 18, 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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Are You Better Than a Machine at Spotting a Deepfake? Mar 15, 2022

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New research shows that detecting digital fakes generated by machine learning might be a job best done with humans still in the loop.

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A Treasure Trove of Dinosaur Bones in Italy Rewrites the Local Prehistoric Record Mar 11, 2022

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New fossils are changing a decades-old story about the species that roamed the Mediterranean 80 million years ago.

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Chimps Apply Insects to Their Wounds Mar 08, 2022

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It is not clear whether the act has medicinal benefit or is merely a cultural practice among the animals.

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The Push to Move Past the Pandemic: COVID Quickly, Episode 25 Mar 04, 2022

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Researchers Analyzed Folk Music like It Was DNA: They Found Parallels between Life and Art Mar 03, 2022

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Using software designed to align DNA sequences, scientists cataloged the mutations that arose as folk songs evolved

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How Hong Kong 'Sees' Invisible Tailpipe Emissions and Pulls Polluters Off the Road Feb 25, 2022

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The city has deployed a system of sensors to flag highly polluting vehicles. Nearly all of them have been repaired, helping to clean Hong Kong’s air.

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