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COVID Quickly, Episode 19: Mandate Roadblocks, Boosters for All and Sickness in the Zoo Nov 19, 2021

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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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Flocking Together May Have Helped Dinosaurs Dominate the Earth Nov 12, 2021

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A fossil bed in Patagonia provides evidence of complex social structure in dinosaurs as early as 193 million years ago. And scientists say that herding behavior could have been key to the beasts’ success.

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Engineered Bacteria Use Air Bubbles as Acoustically Detonated Tumor TNT Nov 10, 2021

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Ultrasound triggered cells home in on tumors and then self destruct to deliver damage or therapeutics from inside.

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COVID Quickly, Episode 18: Vaccines for Kids and the Limits of Natural Immunity Nov 05, 2021

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These Bugs Produce Smelly Defenses That Need to Be Heard to Be Believed Oct 31, 2021

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You read that right. Researchers have taken the chemical defenses of some insects and turned them into sounds, which, it turns out, repel people just as well.

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For Some Parents, Hiding a Dead Body Shows How Much You Care Oct 28, 2021

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Over millions of years of evolution, some beetles have learned to dampen the stench of decay to help their young thrive.

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Date of the Vikings' First Atlantic Crossing Revealed by Rays from Space Oct 25, 2021

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By dating the remnants of trees felled in Newfoundland, scientists have determined that the Norse people likely first set foot in the Americas in the year A.D. 1021.

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COVID Quickly, Episode 17: Vaccine Lies and Protecting Immunocompromised People Oct 22, 2021

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How Can an Elephant Squeak Like a Mouse? Oct 20, 2021

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New research using a camera that can “see" sound” shows some elephants can produce high-pitched buzzing with their lips.

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Beethoven's Unfinished 10th Symphony Brought to Life by Artificial Intelligence Oct 15, 2021

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Nearly 200 years after his death, the German composer’s musical scratch was pieced together by machine—with a lot of human help.