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COVID, Quickly, Episode 14: Best Masks, Explaining Mask Anger, Biden's New Plan Sep 10, 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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The Kavli Prize Presents: Understanding Atoms [Sponsored] Sep 09, 2021

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Gerd Binnig shared The Kavli Prize in Nanoscience in 2016 for inventing the atomic force microscope. What transformative impact has this invention had on nanoscience?

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In Missouri, a Human 'Bee' Works to Better Understand Climate Change's Effects Sep 08, 2021

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Researcher Matthew Austin has become a wildflower pollinator, sans the wings.

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These Baby Bats, like Us, Were Born to Babble Sep 03, 2021

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The greater sac-winged bat develops its own language in much the way we do.

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Their Lives Have Been Upended by Hurricane Ida Aug 31, 2021

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Theresa and Donald Dardar lived their whole lives in coastal Louisiana. They knew the “big one” might come someday. It did, and now everything is uncertain.

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COVID, Quickly, Episode 13: Vaccine Approval, Breakthrough Infections, Boosters Aug 27, 2021

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Flexible Microprocessor Could Enable an 'Internet of Everything' Aug 24, 2021

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Researchers have developed a microprocessor built on high-performance plastic rather than silicon—and they say it could enable smarter food labels and supply chain management.

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Years Before COVID-19, Zombies Helped Prepare One Hospital System for the Real Pandemic Aug 20, 2021

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An educational experiment used escape rooms and the undead to set the stage for a terrible situation that would become all too real

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The Incredible, Reanimated 24,000-Year-Old Rotifer Aug 17, 2021

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The last time this tiny wheel animalcule was moving around, woolly mammoths roamed the earth.

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Astronomers Find an Unexpected Bumper Crop of Black Holes Aug 12, 2021

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In trying to explain the spectacular star trails of the star cluster Palomar 5, astronomers stumbled on a very large trove of black holes.